Dr. Simmons

Senior fellow, Dr Simmons

Llew is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton, Department of Education Leadership, in Ohio. He is currently the Director of Academics for the Bermuda Ministry of Education. As a partner and Senior Fellow for the Applied Centre of Emotional Literacy, Research & Leadership (ACELLR) he brings his k-12 teaching and counselling, to higher education knowledge and skills.  As a former home and school guidance counsellor, Social science teacher his areas of expertise are in:
Leadership Development, Leadership training emotional intelligence, Social Emotional literacy, Curriculum Design and Development, School Redesign, Foundations for Critical Thinking and Decolonized Discourses in teaching and learning.

His leadership skills cover organizational performance management, transformative leadership, decolonized mindsets and cultural competence, life coaching, Rational Emotive Therapy, curricular design and development in African centered teaching and learning. Llew endorses and applies the Commission on Research in Black Education’s (CORIBE) “Ten Vital Principles of Black Education and Socialization.”
As a Senior Fellow of ACELLR, Llew has designed and constructed Social Emotional curricula for the Bermuda Public School System, and conducted workshops and delivered presentations, in the USA, Canada, and Caribbean on numerous research subjects on Leadership and social Emotional literacy.  Llew was a key Bermudian collaborator on the ground breaking research conducted by Robert Mincy, A Study of Employment, Earnings, and Educational Gaps between Young Black Bermudian Males and their Same-Age Peers.   Having published on critical theory, and emancipatory pedagogy, in the field of psychology and psychotherapy, Llew has a special interest in the Psychopathic Racial Personality theory, and multidimensional approaches of the late famed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Bobby Wright.


In Bermuda, he has been involved with a number of Government initiatives and work groups.