| Philicia Baugh-Smith
Age: 29
Principal, Chesterbrook Academy
• Provides leadership to more than 20 employees and ensures the safety and security for up to 165 children (ages 6 weeks to 5 years) at Chesterbrook Academy. On a daily basis, she is responsible for curriculum implementation, parent satisfaction, enrollment, retention, student safety, employee training and support, marketing and building management.
She wears many hats, from door holder to plumber, bus driver to cook, line leader to nurse.
Community involvement:
• Mount Pleasant Kiwanis Club.
• Springfield College Alumni Association.
• Troy University Alumni Association.
• House volunteer and public speaker, Florence Crittenton Home of South Carolina.
• S.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
• Founder of Jaiden’s Place Inc., a nonprofit transitional home for homeless mothers with newborn babies opening in 2010.
What is your professional goal? To continue to be the positive productive face of Chesterbrook Academy. Aside from Chesterbrook Academy, I would like to design a curriculum for pregnant teenagers that exceeds the basics of education by incorporating the essentials of being a productive member of society and a functioning, balanced parent. I would like to write and publish books about teen pregnancy and the unspoken truths. Developing Jaiden’s Place Inc. and sharing the model is also a professional goal of mine. Ideally, I would like to see transitional homes for homeless mothers with newborns throughout the state of South Carolina. Previous Next |
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