EnCompass Four Corners School

Founding Head of Cultivation/CEO
EnCompass Four Corners School (E4CS)

Monique Brinson is the Founding Head of Cultivation/CEO of EnCompass Four Corners School, Camp, Institute, & Center. A lifelong learner committed to world-class education, she is also a graduate student at Harvard University. Her first Masters in education was in teaching, from Boston University-Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. She majored in Sociology and minored in Black Studies at Boston College. Most of her 10 years in teaching was as a founding teacher at one of Boston’s Public Schools’ first K-8 pilot schools. Her award-winning teaching was featured and studied by researchers at Columbia, Harvard, and Brown Universities. She has 20 years of experience as an urban and suburban school administrator in Boston, Massachusetts and in Oakland, Santa Monica, and Pleasant Hill, California in systems ranging from large school districts, to charter, and most recently, a small independent school. She received her Waldorf training from the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (BACWTT), and from the Mills College Graduate School of Education.

Ms. Brinson believes in the importance of having a global and growth mindset. In 2019, she was invited to present at the “Waldorf100 – Love the World” Centennial Celebration in Berlin, Germany, to help establish the vision for the next 100 years of Waldorf education. She was featured in the film, “Waldorf100: Learn to Change the World Part 2“. She completed her Certificate for International Leadership and Tier II Administrative Services Credential in Chiang Mai, Thailand. To develop Spanish and deepen cultural understanding of students and families, Ms. Brinson studied at Cetlalic, a progressive Spanish language school in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She is a member of the Capoeira Besouro family, and has traveled to Drakensberg, South Africa with the international Yang’s Martial Arts Association’s U.S.A. She is working towards a 2nd Degree Black Belt from USA Kung Fu Studio in Alameda, CA. Ms. Brinson has an infectious love and passion for learning and looks forward to getting to know you and your “Creative”! She is equally passionate about cultivating the heart, head, hand learning and leadership for the soul.