Jason Griffiths

Cahn Fellow 2012

Principal, The Brooklyn Latin School

Brooklyn, New York

Jason Griffiths was a member of the tenth Cahn Fellows cohort in 2012 as the founding headmaster of The Brooklyn Latin School in Brooklyn, NY. Throughout the course of his career, Jason has held multiple roles, including teacher, athletic coach, school leader, mentor, non-profit executive, school designer, curriculum developer, and consultant. In 2013, just seven years after opening, US News and World Report ranked TBLS as the top public high school not only in New York City, but in New York state. Two years later, Newsweek lauded TBLS as the fourth best high school in the United States for low income students. 

After leaving TBLS, Jason served as the Managing Director of Partnerships at The National Academy for Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE). In his role, Jason constructed the partnerships team, where he set the strategy for new business development and served as the lead relationship manager with districts, charter management organizations, faith-based private schools, and local and national philanthropists throughout the country.

More recently, Jason has served as an embedded partner with two innovative, entrepreneurial, and rapidly growing organizations supporting them in school design, organizational growth, curriculum development, recruitment, and team building. 

Jason has also served as a board member with three different non-profit organizations: Great Minds, New Leaders, and The Princeton-Blairstown Center. In his role as board member, Jason has served as an instrumental partner in guiding all three organizations through the midst of significant scaling into sustained paths of growth.

Jason earned an A.B in History from Princeton University and a M.Ed. from Temple University.