Rosemary Cambell-Stephens
Remember who you are.
Accept what you have become."
ROSEMARY
Culturally Responsive School Leadership
The Seven Steps
Rosemary Campbell Stephens, an African Caribbean veteran educator of Jamaican parentage, shares her experience of collectively working with other women to save a historically Black school from closure in the United Kingdom. While a culturally driven sense of collective responsibility and action brought the seven educators together to work in the interests of the community, the deeper work was developing an Afrocentric consciousness to bind them together and see the work through.
Rosemary Campbell-Stephens
Rosemary is an African Caribbean veteran educator of Jamaican parentage. Described as an edgy keynote speaker and author, she frames her work through a critical race lens and describes herself as an anti-racist, humanist and womanist, navigating her way forward to the highest levels of Ubuntu in beingness.
Her lifetimes work for forty plus years has been focused on Black liberatory pedagogy, policy and practice and simultaneously on collective healing.She is currently amplifying discussions about how a Global Majority mindset and framework can positively and permanently disrupt systemically racist policies and practices that are presently baked into all previously colonised and colonising systems.
From teaching in a UK Saturday School aged nineteen years of age to now as a Junior elder advising governments on decolonising their education systems, Rosemary continues to disrupt and create.. She embraces the descriptors of disruptor and activist and is rarely in her lane. Her book entitled Educational leadership and the Global Majority: Decolonising Narratives is timely, focusing as it does on a paradigm shift that centres on the eighty-five per cent of the people of planet earth that constitute the Global Majority. She describes the current time as one of reckoning, reimagining and resetting.