Kimberly Jones is a high school English teacher at Chapel Hill High School in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools district in North Carolina, where she’s taught since 2006.

Jones earned her bachelor’s degree in English and a Master of Arts  in education with a concentration in secondary English instruction from Wake Forest University.

Jones is a National Board Certified Teacher who has spent the majority of her career teaching 10^th-grade English with a focus on world literature. She has a special dedication to Holocaust and human rights education. Jones serves as a North Carolina site director for The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights and also works as an education consultant for PBS North Carolina. These positions allow her to lead and support fellow educators throughout the state and country in building lessons that help students better understand literary, cultural and historical texts and events; establish their relevance as diverse 21st-century learners and empower them to use their learning to build positive, productive futures for themselves and their communities.

Jones has won numerous awards in her teaching career, including the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Equity Equals Excellence Award, the Chapel Hill Public School Foundation Sullivan Chair for Excellence in High School English Education and WCHL’s Radio Chapelboro Hometown Hero Award.

She values every opportunity to share about the life-changing power of public education and the lifelong impacts of dedicated educators!