cLARKE WEATHERSPOON
Clarke Weatherspoon is the Head of School at The Waverly School in Pasadena, California. He has 20 years of experience as an independent school teacher, administrator and coach.
Clarke previously served as the Middle School Head at San Francisco Friends, and a number of leadership and instructional roles at the Urban School of San Francisco. The roles included 9th/10th Dean and Dean of Equity and Inclusion. He coached club water polo at the Stanford Water Polo Club from 2006-2019 and was awarded the Ted Newland Development Coach of the Year by USA Water Polo in 2014.
Clarke served as a board member of POCIS Northern California, an equity and inclusion advocacy group for educators of color in Northern California independent schools and served as a teacher trainer with the California Teacher Development Collaborative from 2017-2020.
He also worked as a member of the USA Water Polo Racial Equity and Reform Task Force from 2020-2021. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and holds degrees in History and Black Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Masters of Education from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Clarke is a lapsed cyclist and has been a volunteer meditation instructor with the International Association for Human Values since 2008. He resides in Pasadena with his family.