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Roger F. Harris, Ph.D. 

Dr. Roger F. Harris has devoted over forty-five years working in K-12 schools and universities in Boston Massachusetts, New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey. He is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Inc. Beta Beta Boulé and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the 100 Black Men of DeKalb County, Georgia and the K-12 Education Committee for the 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Dr Harris has served on the Dean’s Advisory Committee at both the Boston University Wheelock College of Education and the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State University Georgia. Dr Harris was an associate professor and director of The Institute for Collaborative Education at New Jersey City University, where he oversaw the partnership between the university and the Jersey City Public School Department. Dr Harris also served as adjunct professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, where he trained aspiring teachers, principals, and superintendents. He has worked in traditional public and charter public high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools as a classroom teacher, athletic coach, mentor, dean, assistant headmaster, principal, and superintendent, earning national and international recognition as an outstanding educator. 

Dr. Harris was born and raised in the Roxbury section of Boston, attended the Boston Public Schools, served three years of active duty with the United States Marine Corps, including a thirteen-month tour of duty with a combat unit in Vietnam. He is prominently featured in the Ken Burns & Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War released nationally and internationally on PBS and Netflix. He was a standout football player at Boston University, where he earned “Most Valuable Backfield Player” and a bachelor’s degree. He received a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston (formerly Boston State College), and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Boston College. 

Dr. Harris served for ten years as a mentor principal to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Faculty Director of the Boston University School of Education’s Education, Leadership, and Policy Studies Department. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the Boston College Lynch School of Education, the University of Massachusetts Boston, New York University, New Jersey City University, and Curry College of Massachusetts. 

He has been the recipient of numerous civic and community awards, including the U.S. Department of Education’s National Distinguished Principal Award, the Massachusetts Principal of the Year Award, the Boston University Wheelock College of Education’s Distinguished Alumni Award, The John Stanford American Hero Award the President’s Award from the NAACP of Boston, The Distinguished Vietnam Veteran Award, The Chrispus Attucks Community Service Award & The American Hero Award from the U.S. Department of Education to name a few. 

He is the founder and president of Urban School Specialists LLC an educational consulting consortium. He is the Executive Producer of The Positive Youth Project and It Takes a Village educational series aired on Boston Neighborhood Network television. He is the former superintendent of the Boston Renaissance Charter Public Schools, and principal of the two-time National Blue-Ribbon Award-winning James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning Roxbury Preparatory Charter Public School of Boston the precursor to the Uncommon Schools network. 

Dr. Harris’ research interests focus on urban educator training, and curriculum reform, to more effectively prepare underserved youth for global success. He believes it important for urban youth to see themselves as citizens of a global community, with an understanding of international economics. He has twice been the keynote speaker at The International Teachers Conference in Stockholm Sweden. He has been an invited speaker to China on numerous occasions and often served as a College Board Delegate to the Chinese Bridge to American Schools Program. Dr. Harris also served in Beijing as a U.S. delegate representing the Asia Society of New York City. He has developed partnerships and exchange programs with Chinese Universities and K-12 schools and hosted Chinese educator conferences in Boston. As a superintendent, he introduced mandatory Mandarin language classes for underserved elementary school children in Boston. As a result of his efforts to introduce Chinese language and culture in Boston schools, he was invited to Beijing by the National Chinese Education Department to receive the Confucius Classroom of The Year Award. Dr Harris was recently invited to South Korea to participate in an International Peace Educators Conference representing the 100 Black Men of DeKalb County, Georgia.