Baruti Kafele

Award-winning educator, best-selling author, educational consultant and motivational speaker, America's Flight Principal, Principal Kafele is on fire! He's on a mission to motivate, educate and empower educators, parents and children toward the elimination of the attitude gap, the world over.

A nationally-renowned educator, Principal Baruti Kafele whose African first name means teacher has excelled in the capacity of both, teacher and principal. As an elementary school teacher in East Orange, NJ, he was selected as the East Orange School District and Essex County Public Schools Teacher of the Year. He was also selected for Who’s Who Among America's Teachers six times. As a middle and high school principal, he led the transformation of four different New Jersey public schools, including The Mighty Newark Tech, which was recognized by U.S. News and World Report Magazine as one of America's best high schools. Currently, Principal Kafele's principalship has no walls which keeps him in flight spreading his empowering message of attitude transformation across the U.S. and beyond through professional development workshops for educators, parental engagement seminars, student motivational assemblies and conference keynote addresses.

Finally, Principal Kafele is happily married to his wife Kimberley and is the proud father of his three children, Baruti, Jabari and Kibriya. He earned his B.S. degree in Management Science/Marketing from Kean University where he graduated summa cum laude, and his M.A. degree in Educational Administration from New Jersey City University. He is the author of five books which include: A Handbook for Teachers of African American Children, A Black Parent's Handbook to Educating Your Children (Outside of the Classroom), and his national best-seller, Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life. He is also the recipient of over fifty educational, professional and community awards, which include the prestigious Milken National Educator Award and the City of Dickinson, Texas proclaiming February 8, 1998 as Baruti Kafele Day.