No. 16 Vol. 3
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March 2018
Attorney-Turned-Educator To Head Up Redwood Elementary School
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By Julie Ross decade ago, Timothy Beaumont sat behind a desk in London, England, working as an attorney. But as of March 26, he will do a very different job behind a very different desk in his new job as principal of West Orange’s Redwood Elementary School. Selected in a process that included local parents as well as West Orange adminis-
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trators and teachers, Beaumont replaces Interim Principal Heather Carr, who has headed up the school since September of 2017. Carr assumed the duties of former Redwood Elementary School Principal Bruce Arcurio following his resignation last summer. Beaumont’s educational experience can be characterized as somewhat unique. Born in Wales into a family of educators, he attended school in Swaziland as a teenager. There, he studied alongside the children of politicians and diplomats, as well as with Rwandan refugees and former youth soldiers from Mozambique and Angola. While at school, he said, he quickly realized that he “did not have a sense” of his own privilege. The new principal’s career has also followed an interesting trajectory. Although he worked as a summer camp counselor at Elks Camp Moore in Pompton Plains— where he met his wife Sarah—he did not start out in the field of education. Rather, he worked as a corporate attorney in London after attending BPP University Law School and, prior to that, the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, where he received a Baccalaureate in history and African American studies. Ten years ago, however, Beaumont decided he wanted a career change and his wife missed New Jersey, so the couple relocated from London to the U.S. It was at
this time that he opted to parlay into a vocation the love of teaching that had been instilled in him by his former history teacher, Mrs. Earnshaw, an African educated in Switzerland. “In the UK, we always glossed over the study of Colonialism,” he said. “Mrs. Earnshaw always challenged us to argue and discuss, challenge our assumptions, connect our realities, and show different perspectives,” he said. Beaumont first applied his affinity for teaching at Clinton Elementary School in Maplewood. While serving as a fourthand fifth-grade teacher there, he helped to
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