We’re passionate about helping our community grow and making an impact.
The mission.
At AIE Connect, our mission is to revolutionize schools to be equitable and inclusive environments for educators and students. We are committed to dismantling systemic barriers that hinder equal access to education, ensuring that every student has an opportunity to thrive and succeed.
Our goal is to transform organizations into vibrant hubs of innovation, where every educator is valued and respected as their authentic selves, provided with opportunities for collaboration and professional growth.
The work.
As educators, we understand that learning environments and curricula need to awaken curiosity and determination, creating conditions that allow students to make their own discoveries. AIE Connect equips educators and leadership teams with frameworks, practices, and tools that will assist them in
Diagnosing how their institutions are structured to uphold the status quo.
Adopting strategies aimed at practices that result in an equitable institutional culture and practices.
What we know.
Advocacy
Black students who'd had just one black teacher by third grade were 13 percent more likely to enroll in college—and those who'd had two were 32 percent more likely
Inclusivity
The role model effect seems to show that having one teacher of the same race is enough to give a student the ambition to achieve, for example, to take a college entrance exam.
Education
The importance of gaps in information, expectations, and thus aspirations.
Meet the Team.
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Dr. Brug is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology with an M.S. in Medical Education and Leadership. She serves as the Vice President of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Westfield. Dr. Brug is a passionate educator and activist, always putting her family and her community first.
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Hollie has an M.S.Ed. in both Education Entrepreneurship and Elementary Education with a certification in middle school mathematics. She has 12 years classroom experience and 10 years as a instructional coach and equity leader. She is a passionate educator and mother of three.