Meet our faculty - Mrs. Deborah Brown, English

We are excited to share with you a little bit about our newest faculty member, Mrs. Deborah Brown.

Deborah Brown comes to RTHS from her position as English Department Chair at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School. Mrs. Brown is a National Board Certified Teacher with a Master’s Degree summa cum laude from Syracuse University. She holds four teaching licenses in secondary and middle school English, Speech Communications, and Theater Arts and has over 20 years of teaching experience, including time teaching in New York and Boston, and more locally at Green Hope High School in Wake County. 

Her specialties include Speech and Debate and student journalism, and she has coached Debate teams, Mock Trial Teams and Drama performances to competitions at the local, regional, state and even national levels. She is trained in the New Tech model of Project Based Learning and is one of the original facilitators for the iLead 21 leadership development course, piloting the first national model and serving as a consultant and contributor to writing the advanced levels of the program. She has been a presenter at county and state conferences on topics such as student leadership in the classroom and using social grouping to encourage closer textual readings. Her projects and writings have been published on national platforms, including DailyKos and The Huffington Post. Mrs. Brown has been honored as a teacher-of-the-year nominee at the school level and was named a North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Scholar in Residence. She is looking forward to many “firsts” at RTHS—first yearbook, first newspaper, first debate team, and more, and is excited to work with a great community of students, parents, and colleagues in this shared vision of a new way to “do school.”