Positive Schools Center

Our team works every day to make schools more equitable and safe for all students. Learn more about what drives our team.

Leadership Team

Shantay McKinily

Director, Positive Schools Center

What do you do for the PSC?

I am the Director of the Positive Schools Center. My responsibilities encompass a lot of different areas of our mission and goals. I coach and support principals in creating strategic plans to shift their school culture and climate. I conduct training on restorative practices, trauma, and the school to prison pipeline to ensure that our schools have the best foundational knowledge for this work. I actively work to support and advocate for legislation that will help establish and maintain holistic and healthy environments for students. Furthermore, I help to set the direction for the Positive Schools Center, where we are going both in the short term and long term, especially in staying connected to our organization’s strategic goals. I am tasked with supporting and creating a collective vision for the Positive Schools Center and I support the team throughout. Finally, I am also responsible for recruiting funders and strategic partnerships to work with Positive Schools Center.

What school and neighborhood do you serve?

I support schools throughout all of Maryland. As a Baltimore City teacher and principal for 18 years, Baltimore leaders and schools are especially important to me.

What drives you to work with the PSC?

The idea of community is the biggest driver for the work I do with the Positive Schools Center. That idea of community is about the idea that collectively we can change how generational trauma and institutionalized racism impacts our students.

Nikomar Mosley

Associate Director, Positive Schools Center

What do you do for the PSC?

As the Associate Director for the Positive Schools Center and Promise Heights School-based Programs, I supervise the Intensive Climate Cohort (ICC), where I collaborate with school leaders, wholeness teams, and PSC coaches to ensure that schools receive the skills and supports they need to produce and sustain a positive instructional environment. Additionally, I support school-based leaders and their teams to create and implement effective climate plans that positively enhance the school community. I also work with stakeholders and policy makers to facilitate effective decision-making related to school culture and climate.

What school and neighborhood do you serve?

Most of my work is with Baltimore City Public Schools principals, however I also support other Maryland school leaders and their teams.

What drives you to work with the PSC?

After working with City Schools for 22 years as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal, my goal is to advocate for the well-being of school leadership. The Positive Schools Center is an environment where I can support principals with improving their social competencies, while focusing on the development of their students’ social, emotional, and academic learning outcomes.