Yetunde is an advisor on academic, behavioral intervention, and education quality and policies. Yetunde is professionally focused and student orientated. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education, specializing in English, a master's degree in educational management, and is currently a Doctoral candidate in educational psychology. Yetunde is a lifelong learner forging ahead to build on her academic foundations in education management and psychology, to keep abreast with child development, and learn the best strategies through continued coursework and professional development. Her background in Education Psychology and Management informed her interdisciplinary approach to managing students' success.
Yetunde is naturally a change agent. Yetunde's career experience has spanned over twenty-eight years in an increasingly responsible role within the University system at several universities, including Cappella University, Olabisi Onabanjo University, the Choice program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Coppin State University. Yetunde help improves academic, socio-emotional, and behavioral outcomes for students. Yetunde is an advisor, a mentor, a coach, a teacher, and a friend to the youth. From childhood, Yetunde has been known for guiding and helping her peers to stay on track. She is passionate about mentoring adolescents, teenagers, and young adults.
Yetunde got interested in transforming lives because of her childhood experience as a young adolescent growing up in a polygamous setting without secure attachment. Yetunde lost her mum at an exceedingly early age; dad had so many wives. Yetunde was fortunate to find a secure attachment outside of her family.
Adolescence is a time of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes. Adolescents experience significant changes in their family relations, school environments, and peer group affiliations that impact their motivation and learning (Berks & Meyers, 2016). Extant literature revealed that the adolescent brain undergoes extensive remodeling in response to the experiences during development (Berks & Meyers, 2015; Hutchinson, 2015). Yetunde is therefore committed to providing socio-emotional support to help children of all ages navigate their childhood experiences. Yetunde is a visionary problem solver and a planner who takes up challenges head-on with a proven record of success in mentoring and advocating for adolescents, teenagers, and young adults.
Yetunde's most significant professional accomplishment is her understanding of the precipitating factors that may be responsible for children's behavioral, socio-emotional, and academic performance. She plans, facilitates, coordinates, advocates, and evaluates the options and services available to meet students' needs to excel in life. Yetunde understands the importance of helping students to learn accordingly to their interests and needs. Yetunde understands the importance of helping students to learn accordingly to their interests and needs.
Yetunde is looking forward to mentoring and advocating for children to actualize their potential. Her model of mentoring and advocacy is based on evidence-based best practices, utilizing an interdisciplinary system targeted at children's socio-emotional learning (SEL), developmental models (DM), culturally responsive practices (CRP), positive behavioral intervention, and Supports (PBIS).