"WORLD-CLASS"
EDUCATION
Dr. Everett views “World-class Education” as education, focused on student-led involvement, that is engaging, personal, and authentic with a global perspective and intercultural competence. He gets it! World-class education focuses on the well-being of the vast diversity of children, ensuring that background and starting points are not barriers to their desired outcomes. The three primary pillars of this world-class education are:
Early childhood engagement, Equitable schools, and Experienced, effective leadership.
Early Childhood Engagement
Dr. Everett envisions “Early Childhood Engagement” as the foundation for our students’ future, with partnerships that are holistically prepared to provide quality environments for early learning, addressing with intent health, safety, social emotional development, economic, and other stressors. Engagement speaks to services and multi-governance that is intentional in connecting and navigating experiences and challenges for children at the Pre-K stage. He Gets It!
Equitable Schools
Dr. Everett defines “Equitable Schools” as institutions that are accessible, inclusive, quality, collaborative, accountable, autonomous, flexible, and resourceful, providing policies, practices, and imaginative investments for students whose cultures have been marginalized and oppressed. He Gets It! An equitable school provides a safe space with processes and intentionality for students and staff to attain their highest goals by using resources equitably with strategies for each individual student. The equitable school:
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Has a clear mission that is committed to equitable access, processes, treatment, and outcomes for all students, inclusive of race/ethnicity, gender, English Learners, disability status, gender identity/sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
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Provides inclusive visual, aural, and written environments with representation and information about the global diversity of people and cultures.
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Collaborates with the various socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, language, gender, and disability groups within Lexington-Fayette County.
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Is student-centric with engagement in partnership with parents and guardians, businesses, civic, and community organizations that provides knowledge, learns from the interaction, and builds infrastructure with no student left out.
Experienced & Effective Leadership
Dr. Everett represents “Experienced, Effective Leadership” as a goal-oriented, driven to act catalyst, social change agent, and advocate for the impactful well-being of our students and our community. Here are a few examples of his leadership:
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As a pastor, he created the Winburn Leadership Academy for At-Promise Youth, a 21st Century grant program, in collaboration with the community outreach office at Winburn Middle School in Lexington.
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As a parent, he provided a diverse voice in a non-diverse district by lending his expertise to the first strategic planning initiative of the Grand Blanc (Michigan) School District.
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With 30 high school students and a handful of volunteers, he founded the Greater Flint Black Data Processing Associates Computer Club where he taught BIPOC students everything from usage of Microsoft products to coding.