Jamiylah
JonesEd.D.
Empowering schools. Transforming education in how we teach, learn, and lead.
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.
Begin the storyLives empowered.
Lives transformed.
A career of lifelong service to students, families, educators, and leaders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 AI in Education Ecosystem, an integrated architecture of diagnostic, training, and deployed tools. Out of that ecosystem, 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, the first 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.
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.
The truths I lead by.
Kids do not care what you know until they know you care.
You must inspect what you expect.
Do not judge a book by its cover.
Listen to all sides before making a decision.
Treat people the way you want to be treated.
People may not remember what you say, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
Relationships are everything.
There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
Always be your authentic self.
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.
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.
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.
AI in Education Ecosystem
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 AI strategy, governance, and integration.
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.
On the stage, and on the page.
Where my voice has been, and where it is going.
What I am publishing.
Teaching AI With Confidence
A complete K-12 book series built to federal AI literacy standards. Grade-level progressions, facilitator scripts, and a train-the-trainer curriculum. Used by schools and coaches across the country to move their teachers from fear to fluency.
Explore the seriesWhat 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 LinkedIn@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 YouTubeAmmar'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.
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.