Our Vision
The Cultivated Mind Learning Program envisions a learning program that supports basic academics and higher sciences via multiple intelligences, as well as experiential and communal modes of learning. Our goal is to cultivate the whole learner, as they identify their relationship to their community, their nation, and the world at large. All instruction will support learners in their cultural, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual development. We acknowledge that learning is a continual process with the purpose of improving our lives in a real and meaningful way.
Educators
Brittany Selah Lee-Bey is an educator in the DC Metropolitan area. She attended College of William and Mary and George Washington University, where she received her M.A.T. in Transition Special Education (K-12). Selah is currently attending the University of Virginia and is expected to receive a masters in reading instruction Summer 2018. She has ten years of teaching experience in a variety of settings including traditional public and charter schools, alternative schools, homeschool settings, and community/cooperative educational programs. Selah specializes in literacy instruction, focusing on etymology, word study, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and literary interpretation. She works with learners of all ages and levels. Selah is a certified special educator, a reading instructor, and a doula. In addition to teaching, Selah enjoys studying astrology and wholistic health. She loves to cook, travel, write, garden and dance.
Jabari Zakiya was born and raised in Washington, DC. After graduating from McKinley Tech HS, he received a BSEE from Cornell University, and then a MSEE from Ga Tech. He then worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GFSC) in Greenbelt, MD for 15 years, as an engineer building space data communication systems. After NASA he co-founded 3rdeye Technologies, to leverage hardware IP (intellectual property) he created around encryption algorithms. Most recently, he has developed extremely fast prime sieve methods, the Sieve of Zakiya (SoZ) and Segmented Sieve of Zakiya (SSoZ). He's also fluent in various programming languages, and has written various papers about programming. Jabari has been teaching and tutoring math basically all his life. He's formally been tutoring/teaching math in the 2000's with various tutoring companies, and freelance. He's also taught a semester of calculus at a DC High School in 2008.
