CURRICULUM VITAE

Formal Education

Middlebury College

Master of Arts, English

August 2025

Johns Hopkins University

Doctorate, Teacher Development and Educational Leadership

May 2019

Georgetown University

Master of Science, Applied Linguistics

May 2012

Johns Hopkins University

Master of Science, Education

May 2002

University of Maryland

Bachelor of Arts, English

May 2000

Work Experience

Canadian International School, Singapore

MYP and DP teacher

Model United Nations Faculty Advisor

Academic years 2024-present

Instruct Language and Literature English (A) for Grades 8, 10, 11, and 12. Provide innovative interdisciplinary connections to further enliven curriculum. (Related publication: https://sites.middlebury.edu/bltnmag/2025/05/27/refuturing-dystopia-a-collaboration-between-beyond-the-page-and-the-canadian-international-school-of-singapore/)

Actively participate in monthly grade standardization meetings with grade level teams.

Coordinate the CIS Model United Nations team conferences, supervise MUN training, and expand MUN programming for bilingual access.

Dr. Valaida Wise Consulting, LLC

Consultant

Prepares equity audits for institutions. In a team-based approach, conducts focus group interviews, codes data, and drafts reports for clients dedicated to the examination of their policies and practices regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Presents on special topics upon request.

March 2021 to present

Roland Park Country School

Upper School English teacher

Academic years 2018 through 2021

Instructed English in Grades 9, 11, and 12. Designed curricula for a few electives and module courses such as Public Speaking, Model United Nations, Social Justice, and Caribbean Lit.

Writing Center Coordinator (2021-2022)

Unity Productions Foundation

Project Advisor for "Unfold Your Own Myth," a poetry-writing curriculum that accompanies the UPF film Lamya's Poem

Promotional video for the film and workshops: https://vimeo.com/655316643

February 2021 through December 2022

Johns Hopkins University

Adjunct Faculty

Instructed Linguistics for Teachers, Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas to ESL Students, and Emergent Literacy for students pursuing a Master’s Degree in the School of Education.

Summer Session 2008 to Fall 2018

The Barrie School

International Student Program Coordinator; full-time Humanities and English as a Second Language instructor; Model United Nations coach, and Model Arab League coach

Instructed Humanities 11 and 12. Designed the Model United Nations program, drove students on the Barrie Bus to conferences, and developed an internship program for students with Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

Academic years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017

Literacy Activities Supporting the Empowerment of Refugees (LASER)

Coordinated a weekend literacy initiative between Barrie School students and recently-arrived refugees from Syria.

July-November 2016

Dar Al-Hekma University

Full-time Faculty; General Education Department

Instructed writing courses for first-year students. (DAH, located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is dedicated to the education of Saudi women. English is the university-wide medium of instruction).

Spring Semester 2014

Georgetown University Law Center

Adjunct Faculty

Designed curriculum for and instructed English for International Lawyers' Language Group for lawyers enrolled in the international graduate degree in law (LLM) program.

Spring 2012 and Fall 2013

Frederick Community College

Adjunct Faculty

Instructed English 101, English 102, and A Multicultural and Global Society

Fall 2008 to Fall 2014

Georgetown University

Linguistics Department Summer Intern

Assisted with the instruction of a course entitled U.S. Legal Discourse, designed for highly-functioning international lawyers whose native languages were not English.

Summer Session 2006 and 2007

Rock Creek International School

Assistant Director of Advancement

Developed innovative ways to market and receive press coverage for the dual-language English/Arabic immersion program for students in Pre-K through Grade 8.

2004-2006

Awards

Change Initiative Action Grant as part of the Katherine Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, October 2024 - June 2025

Engaging Eurasia Teaching Fellowship (EEFT), Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in collaboration with Ohio State University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 2022-June 2023

Change Initiative Action Grant as part of the Katherine Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, August 2022 - January 2023

Arabic Language Scholarship, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Embassy of Oman, 2017

AlWaleed Fellowship, Study Tour of Oman, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, 2016

Full Doctoral Scholarship, Education Leadership, Johns Hopkins University, 2009-2014

Chips/Quinn journalism scholarship, University of Maryland, 1995

Full Undergraduate Scholarship, Journalism, Freedom Forum/Project Excellence, University of Maryland, 1993

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 2nd place, 1993

National Council of Teachers of English writing award for fiction, 1992

Presentations

Khalil, R. (2025, October 21). Chemistry and Fiction: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in the English Classroom. Community Literacies Collaboratory Symposium, University of Arkansas. Presentation. Virtual Symposium.

Khalil, R. & Davenport, L. (2023, November 18). Insight on Sight: An Intercultural and Interschool Literacy Project. Workshop. Session Title: "Stories and Pictures: Approaches to the Intersection of Text and Image." National Council of Teachers of English. Columbus, Ohio.

Khalil, R. (2023, June 21). Michelle Alexander and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: An Examination of Prisons Across Countries and Time. Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Khalil, R. (2023, February 16). When We Were Arabs: Memory and Erasure. Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Moderator. Virtual Workshop.

Khalil, R. (2021, July 29). Using Marvel Comics in the English Language Arts Curricula of Juvenile Detention Facilities. Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English. Presentation. Virtual Symposium.

Khalil, R. (2021, July 8). Carceral Spaces and Wide Ocean: Using Moby Dick to Promote Intellectual Welfare Among Incarcerated African American Male Youth. Summer Institute: Moby Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age. National Endowment for the Humanities. Presentation. Virtual Conference.

Khalil, R. (2021, April 10). Considering Boredom as Another Oppressive Force in the Lives of Incarcerated African American Male Youth. American Educational Research Association, Division C - Section 2b: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts. Presentation. Virtual Conference.

Khalil, R. (2021, April 3). Deconstructing the Colonial Gaze: Massoud Hayoun and Albert Camus in Conversation. Workshop. Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Howard University School of Education: Asserting Identity in Children’s and Youth Literature. Virtual Conference.

Doyle, S. & Khalil, R. (2021, February 3). Connecting Mid-Atlantic Students with Native Communities. Workshop. National Coalition of Girls’ Schools & New York State Association of Independent Schools. Virtual Conference.

Khalil, R. & Regales, J. (2020, November 21). Questioning and Contextualizing Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Workshop. National Council of Teachers of English. Virtual Conference.

Khalil, R. (2019, December 6). Ebonics. Dialect. Slang. What is Black Speech? Establishing Academic Equity for America's Most Stigmatized English. Workshop. National Association of Independent Schools, People of Color Conference. Convention Center. Seattle, Washington.

Khalil, R. & Sargusingh, S. (2019, November 2). Developing Oral Language Capacity in Students from the Toddler to the Teen Years through Novelty, Complexity, and Explanation. Workshop. The Greater Washington Montessori Conference at Barrie. Barrie School. Silver Spring, MD.

Khalil, R. (2019, October 18). Preparing Girls for Global Citizenship. Workshop. National Coalition of Girls’ Schools. Educating Girls Symposium, Leading Schools, Leading Girls: Preparing for the Future. The Bryn Mawr School. Baltimore, MD.

Khalil, R. (2019, August 28). Using Literature to Teach about Islam and Muslim Regions of the World. Workshop; Course #15982. Alexandria City Public Schools. Alexandria, Virginia.

Khalil, R. (2019, April 11). Listening to and Imagining the Voices of Others. Workshop. Oman 19th International English Language Teaching Conference. Sultan Qaboos University. Muscat, Oman.

Khalil, R. (2019, March 23). Megaliths, Monoliths, and Metaphors: Exploring the Middle East in High School English Classes. Workshop. Innovative Schools Summit. Caribe Royale. Orlando, Florida.

Khalil, R. (2018, October 19). The Language of Activism for Critical Thinkers. Workshop. Get Critical: Art, Activism, & Critical Consciousness. 2nd Annual Prep Diversity Symposium. Barrie School. Silver Spring, Maryland.

Khalil, R. (2018, January 19). Educating Against Islamophobia. Professional Development Workshop. Diversity Conference for Educators. St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Potomac, Maryland.

Khalil, R. (2017, October 18). Discipline, Zero-Tolerance, and the Criminalization of America’s Youth: A Peek at Trends in Juvenile Incarceration. Lecture and Q&A. Doctoral Speaker Series, Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Baltimore, Maryland.

Khalil, R. & Hasan, J. (6 August 2015). Great Expectations: Accomplishing College Readiness Through the DP Experience. International Baccalaureate Mid-Atlantic (IBMA) Summer Academy.

https://www.ibmidatlantic.org/Academy_2015_program.pdf

Eakle, A. J., Khalil, R., Sullivan, L. & Yim, C. (2013, May 4). Global Literacy Practices That Make Sense in and out of School. Interactive presentation. Capital Campaign Event, Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Baltimore, Maryland.

Professional Development

International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific, Diploma English A: Language and Literature, Category 2. (2024 October 19-21). International Baccalaureate Organization, Singapore Branch. (Tanglin Trust School site).

East Asian Literature and Personal Stories. (2023, June 14). The National Consortium for Teaching About Asia; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. 8 hours. Virtual Workshop.

Academic Language Practitioner, (Multisensory Structured Language instruction/reading remediation). The Atlantic Seaboard Dyslexia Education Center, (September 2021 through June 2022). 415 hours.

Children and Youth Literature: Teaching Place and Displacement in Africa and the Middle East. (2022, April 2). Howard University-Center for African Studies and Georgetown University-Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Virtual Conference.

Multisensory Structured Language Teaching in the Classroom. (2021, August 23-27). Atlantic Seaboard Dyslexia Education Center; Academic Language Therapy Association. 35 hours. Virtual training.

Moby Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age. (2021, June 21-July 1). The New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Melville Society Cultural Project. National Endowment for the Humanities. Virtual.

Teaching About the Swahili Coast: Culture, Connections, and Communities. (2021, Feb. 6). Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Virtual Conference.

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions. (2020, March-May). Harvard Graduate School Education. Right Question Institute.

Global Online Academy: Wayfinding, Assessment, Student Agency. (2020, July-August). https://globalonlineacademy.org/professional-learning/educator-courses

The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Great Sioux War of 1876. (2019, June 16-21). Montana State University, Billings. National Endowment for the Humanities. Billings, Montana.

Food, Agriculture, Water, and Environment in the Middle East and North Africa. (2017, August 7-11). Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, School of Foreign Service. 27.5 contact hours.

Ethics of Enhancement. (2017, January 5-7). Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. 15 contact hours.

Experiencing and Teaching About World Religions. (2016, August 1-9). Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, School of Foreign Service. 28 contact hours.

Project Based Learning 101. (2016, June). Buck Institute for Education. 21 contact hours,

Strategies for Working with Students with Learning Disabilities. The Treatment and Learning Centers. (Sept 2002 - May 2003)

Publications

Khalil, R. (2025). Refuturing Dystopia: A Collaboration Between Beyond the Page and the Canadian International School of Singapore. Bread Loaf Teacher Network Journal. Middlebury College.
https://sites.middlebury.edu/bltnmag/2025/05/27/refuturing-dystopia-a-collaboration-between-beyond-the-page-and-the-canadian-international-school-of-singapore/

Khalil, R. and Davenport, L. (2023). Insight on Sight: Seeing One Another Across Difference. Bread Loaf Teacher Network Journal. Middlebury College. Featured Article. https://sites.middlebury.edu/bltnmag/

Khalil, R. (2021). Considering Boredom as Another Oppressive Force in the Lives of Incarcerated African American Male Youth. American Educational Research Association (AERA). http://www.aera.net/repository

Khalil, R. (2020). Book review: “The condemnation of blackness: race, crime, and the making of modern urban America.” Independent School Magazine.

Khalil, R. (2019). Literacy in the Lives of Formerly Incarcerated African American Young Men: A Phenomenological Study (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/61926