About R.J.
The 2021-2022 school year marks R.J. Hawley’s seventh year as Executive Director of both The Avalon School and Brookewood School. As a former Assistant Headmaster at both schools, he brings a deep knowledge of Avalon and Brookewood and a broad range of administrative skills to the extensive business and planning responsibilities of both institutions.
R.J. came to Avalon in 2003, following two years at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS). Prior to joining TASIS, he served as a teacher and administrator at The Heights School in Potomac, MD for seven years. During his 26 years in independent school education, he has taught journalism and ethics and a wide range of science and mathematics courses, and also garnered extensive experience as a college counselor both here and in Europe.
R.J. is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied biology and philosophy and began his intensive exploration of Aristotle’s works on man. He completed his Master of Science in Educational Administration at Trinity Washington University in 2013.
He and his wife, Kristen, and their five children, Maggie (Brookewood’19), Will (Avalon ’20), Alec (Avalon ’23), Clare (Brookewood ’24), and George (Avalon ’36) live in Silver Spring, MD.
The 2021-2022 school year marks R.J. Hawley’s seventh year as Executive Director of both The Avalon School and Brookewood School. As a former Assistant Headmaster at both schools, he brings a deep knowledge of Avalon and Brookewood and a broad range of administrative skills to the extensive business and planning responsibilities of both institutions.
R.J. came to Avalon in 2003, following two years at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS). Prior to joining TASIS, he served as a teacher and administrator at The Heights School in Potomac, MD for seven years. During his 26 years in independent school education, he has taught journalism and ethics and a wide range of science and mathematics courses, and also garnered extensive experience as a college counselor both here and in Europe.
R.J. is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied biology and philosophy and began his intensive exploration of Aristotle’s works on man. He completed his Master of Science in Educational Administration at Trinity Washington University in 2013.
He and his wife, Kristen, and their five children, Maggie (Brookewood’19), Will (Avalon ’20), Alec (Avalon ’23), Clare (Brookewood ’24), and George (Avalon ’36) live in Silver Spring, MD.