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Educator · Founder · Architect
Jamiylah
JonesEd.D.
Empowering schools. Transforming education in how we teach, learn, and lead.
Dr. Jamiylah Jones is an AI in education consultant, school leader, author, and founder of Creative Transformations, helping K-12 schools build responsible AI systems, educator capacity, and AI literacy. The work spans over two decades, four continents, and every layer of school leadership, from the classroom to the headship. Dr. Jones advises schools in moments of real consequence: when a new school is being built, when accreditation is on the line, when AI is reshaping the classroom faster than policy can keep up, when funding will determine survival, and when leadership is the difference between thriving and falling behind. She founded Creative Transformations to carry this work, and Elhaam Academy to hold to the same standard of excellence she brings to every institution she serves.
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The Journey
Lives empowered.
Lives transformed.
A career of lifelong service to students, families, educators, and leaders.
2001
The Bronx, New York
It began in a science classroom.
My career started in the NYC Department of Education as a biology teacher and department chairperson. I witnessed early that the community a child was born into too often decided what was expected of them. I believed then, and believe now, that every student deserves a high-quality education from educators who truly care. Because students do not care what you know until they know you care. That conviction has driven me to bring my best, because every child deserves nothing less.
2004
The Bronx, New York
Leading from the administrator's chair.
Over the next nine years, I led a health-themed career and technical education school serving a predominantly bilingual student body. I secured more than four million dollars in grant funding to strengthen the programs our students needed. What I had witnessed as a young teacher, that too many children were being underestimated before they ever had a chance to prove otherwise, would not continue on my watch. I fought for every student whose first language was not English to be seen, believed in, and taught as if their potential depended on it, because it did. And they rose. Their success was not the exception. It was the proof of what I had believed all along.
2013
Taif, Saudi Arabia
Leading internationally.
The Saudi Arabian International School served a student body drawn from countries across the world, and I accepted the role of principal with one non-negotiable: the conviction that had defined my work in the Bronx would cross the ocean with me. Every child in that school, regardless of their passport, deserved the same high-quality education that any American student would receive, delivered by educators properly trained in the pedagogy that education required. I refused to let international distance lower the standard. Under my leadership, the school earned accreditation with a major United States accrediting body and special recognition from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education. The work had scaled. The principle had not.
2015
Riggae, Kuwait
Two languages, one standard.
Ajial Bilingual School in Kuwait asked something few principalships ask: to lead both the boys school and the girls school at the same time, and to protect a single standard of American education across both. Students were learning in two languages. The work was making sure they were learning to the same level of rigor they would have received in any strong American school, in either language. What students walked away with was a bilingual education that did not ask them to choose between fluency and rigor. What families walked away with was a clearer understanding of what their children's education actually required, and a trust that it was being delivered. What educators walked away with was a standard worth holding, and the training to hold it.
2016
Queens, New York
Eight years of building something that lasts.
After returning to New York, I took on the role of Head of School at The Wellspring Schools, a position I would hold for eight years. What began as an elementary school grew under my leadership into a 3K-12 institution with five school divisions: elementary, middle, high school, a full-time synchronous virtual school, and a homeschool cooperative alliance. Enrollment grew over 300 percent. The school secured more than five million dollars in city, state, federal, and private funding. We built multiple city and state partnerships that supported students at both ends of the 3K-12 arc, from early childhood readiness to post-secondary preparation. We earned multiple accreditations, and our students were graduating from high school with thirty college credits already in hand, thanks to the post-secondary partnerships I built into the program. Every teacher on staff had an instructional coach assigned to them, because holding the highest quality of teaching required investing in the people delivering it. The team I led did not see a single staff departure in over five years, a number almost unheard of in 3K-12 education. We did not just build a school. We built a model for what a 3K-12 institution could be when excellence is non-negotiable. Students walked away prepared for a future bigger than the one they arrived imagining. Families walked away with an education they could trust. Staff walked away as better educators than when they had arrived.
2019
A firm is founded
Creative Transformations is born.
Creative Transformations began with a single purpose: to help and support new school leaders stepping into roles without the preparation the work demanded of them. What began as leadership support evolved into a full-service education consulting firm, guiding schools through every dimension of school management: leadership, instruction, operations, and accreditation. With the AI shift reshaping education, the firm has grown to include helping schools navigate AI implementation through the Responsible AI Program for Schools, an integrated architecture of diagnostic, training, and deployed tools. Out of that program, two flagship platforms have launched: TaskFixer AI in October 2025, built to address the academic integrity challenges created by generative AI, and ILM Fusion in December 2025, an AI training and delivery system designed specifically for Islamic schools. Today, Creative Transformations is changing what is possible inside schools. New institutions are opening. Leaders are growing into the roles their schools need. Accreditations are being secured. Educators are becoming fluent in the AI era. Every engagement leaves another school stronger for the students inside it.
2024
Queens, New York
A model for the next generation.
Elhaam Academy was founded as a model for the next generation of education. The goal from day one has been to build a hub of excellence and learning for educators around the world, a school where Islamic knowledge and academic rigor are not running in parallel but genuinely integrated, where AI is being taught intentionally at every grade level, and where students are being prepared for a world whose shape we can only partly predict. Every student at Elhaam is being grounded in Islamic knowledge, trained in AI fluency, and prepared to lead in a world that keeps changing under their feet. Families are finding a school they can trust with their children. Educators from other institutions are watching what Elhaam is building and asking how they can build it too. The conviction that started in a Bronx classroom is now empowering the next generation and transforming what education can be.
More to build. More to empower. More to transform.
What I Believe
The truths I lead by.
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Kids do not care what you know until they know you care.
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You must inspect what you expect.
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Do not judge a book by its cover.
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Listen to all sides before making a decision.
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Treat people the way you want to be treated.
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People may not remember what you say, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
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Relationships are everything.
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There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
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Always be your authentic self.
The Work Now
Chapters running in parallel.
I am not the kind of founder who launches something and moves on. I build carefully, and I keep building. These are the chapters I am writing in parallel, each distinct, each active.
For AI consulting, school-wide AI governance, professional development, and K-12 AI literacy services, visit Creative Transformations, the consulting practice that delivers this work to schools and organizations.
Since December 2019
Creative Transformations
A global education consulting practice. Schools come here when they are ready to make a real move, in leadership, in instruction, in AI implementation, in accreditation, in opening a new building, in securing funding.
Opened July 2024
Elhaam Academy
Where I serve as Founder. A private school committed to academic excellence, character development, and Islamic integration, serving students in Queens, New York.
Launched 2025
Responsible AI Program for Schools
An integrated architecture of diagnostic, training, and deployed tools designed to help schools navigate AI implementation with rigor. The framework behind every Creative Transformations engagement on responsible AI strategy, governance, and integration.
Launched October 2025
TaskFixer AI
Instructional infrastructure for the AI era. A response to the assessment crisis generative AI created in every classroom: when student work can no longer be verified as student thinking, traditional assessment collapses. TaskFixer AI is the infrastructure that restores it.
A Voice in the Field
On the stage, and on the page.
Where my voice has been, and where it is going.
AI Ethics in Education: A Human-Centered Approach
Ghana Leadership and Learning Alliance, virtual
September 17, 2026
Verified source →ISLA Professional Development Week 2026, Teaching AI Literacy
Guest Presenter
August 2026
Verified source →Elhaam Academy's Night of Faith and Knowledge
Queens, New York
February 2026
What I am publishing.
A 13-book K-12 series
Teaching AI With Confidence
Created by Dr. Jamiylah Jones, Teaching AI With Confidence is a 13-book K-12 AI literacy curriculum and part of her broader work in AI in education. The series includes grade-level progressions, facilitator scripts, and train-the-trainer support. Creative Transformations provides school-facing implementation and professional learning. Watch the Teaching AI With Confidence video series for curriculum walkthroughs, lesson examples, implementation guidance, and AI literacy training.
Explore the seriesSelf-paced course for K-12 educators
AI-Powered Teaching
A beginner-friendly course that starts with the teaching work you already do — lesson planning, differentiation, feedback, and parent communication — and shows how AI can support it without giving up your professional judgment. Teaching first. Technology second.
Explore the courseSelf-paced course for K-12 school leaders
AI for School Leaders
Practical AI support for the work already on a school leader's desk — turning walkthrough notes into coaching, exploring attendance and assessment patterns, drafting sensitive communication, and guiding staff through responsible AI adoption. For principals, assistant principals, district leaders, and instructional leaders.
Explore the courseWeekly newsletter
Insights
Curated weekly newsletters on what is surfacing in schools because of AI — the patterns no one is naming, the decisions leaders are being forced to make, and what educators can take from the moment.
Read insightsThe podcast
What's Your AI Problem?
Conversations with school leaders and educators about the real problems they are solving with AI — what is working, what they are learning, and what other educators can take from their experience.
Watch the episodesYouTube, over 400 videos
@creativetransformations1
The open library of my thinking on AI in education. Walk-throughs, frameworks, and the workshops I deliver behind the scenes. Free to watch, free to use.
Watch on YouTubeA weekly LinkedIn Newsletter
What Is Your AI Problem?
One essay each week on the real questions education leaders are asking about AI. No hype, no hedging. Just the conversations I am already having with the field.
Read on LinkedInA children's book, forthcoming
Ammar's Hajj Adventures
A children's book written for my son, inspired by our time together on Hajj and in Madinah. Written more than ten years ago and now being prepared for publication as a gift to the Muslim community.
Coming soonFor more than two decades, I have not stopped empowering schools and transforming what is possible in education. This has been my life's work, and it still is.
Jamiylah Jones, Ed.D.
A Quiet Invitation
Leaders ready for their institution's next chapter are the ones I work with best. Let's talk.
I take on a limited number of engagements each year. The strongest ones begin with a single conversation about where your institution is now and where you are preparing to lead it. From there, we can determine together whether my practice is the right fit for your moment.