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Roger F. Harris
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Dr. Roger F. Harris presently serves as the Superintendent, Chief Executive Officer, and member of the Board of Trustees for the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School, one of the largest charter schools in Massachusetts and the largest single-site charter school in the nation. Former Principal of the national award winning Timilty Middle School, he is a co-founder of Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, founder and President of Urban School Specialists, LLC, and Executive Producer of “It Takes a Village,” an educational video series aired on the Boston Neighborhood Network’s cable channel. Dr. Harris has worked in traditional Boston public high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools as a classroom teacher, administrator, athletic coach, and mentor, earning national and international recognition as an outstanding urban educator. Dr. Harris has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, and the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Graduate College of Education.
Dr. Harris has served for over ten years as a mentor principal to the Harvard Principal Certification Pattern at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has been the recipient of numerous civic and community awards, including the 2000 United States Department of Education’s John Stanford Education Heroes Award, the 2001 Massachusetts Elementary Principals Association’s Principal of the Year Award, and the 2001 U. S. Department of Education’s National Distinguished Principal Award. Dr. Harris sits on a number of local Boards and has recently joined the C5 Youth Foundation’s National Advisory Board (formerly called Camp Coca Cola Foundation). Dr. Harris also recently presented a session on “Charter Schools in America” at the annual International Schools Connection (ISC) conference held in Madrid, Spain.