Monarch Academy Baltimore names assistant principal

BALTIMORE—Monarch Academy Public Charter School in Baltimore named Bertrand Tchoumi assistant principal. Prior to joining Monarch Academy, Bertrand served as resident principal at Baltimore City College. He began his career in education in Baltimore in 2006 as a high school French teacher and has taught in both middle and high schools.

Tchoumi also worked at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, where he established a partnership between the school and the Lycee Brel in France, creating and sponsoring the Toussaint Louverture National French Honor Society and launching a French award night. He also led his students in winning national and state scholastic and artistic competitions.

Additionally, Tchoumi lectures for the department of world languages and international studies at Morgan State University. He received the Maryland Foreign Language Association Escola Teacher Incentive Grant and was a World Press Institute Fellow for Excellence in Journalism.

Tchoumi holds a bachelor’s degree in French language and literature and a master’s degree in African literature from the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. He also earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Langston State University and is currently a doctoral student in urban education leadership at Morgan State University.

Monarch Academy Public Charter School Baltimore (www.monarchcharter.org) is a co-educational public charter school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade operated by the TranZed Alliance serving students who reside in Baltimore. Monarch Academy provides students with an enriched, rigorous, hands-on, academic curriculum emphasizing project-based learning and the arts and technology. In addition, Monarch Academy follows Transformation Education, an organizational philosophy that infuses a school’s beliefs and values into the look of the school building, instructional approach, teachers’ mindset and behavior and operating systems.