Ron Clark
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Ron Clark is an American teacher who has worked with disadvantaged students in rural North Carolina and in inner-city Harlem.
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[edit] Background
Clark was educated at East Carolina University through the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program and accepted a job in Aurora, North Carolina upon graduation in 1994. Five years later he departed for Harlem to take a job teaching elementary school in an inner-city setting. Clark's latest project is the Ron Clark Academy, a private non-profit school in Atlanta, Georgia where students follow a unique curriculum. The school also gives students opportunities for international travel.
[edit] Accolades
Clark's first year spent in Harlem was the focus of a 2006 made-for-TV movie, The Ron Clark Story, starring Matthew Perry.
During his first 2 years in Harlem, Clark was able to increase the scores of his students enough to send many of them to a prestigious Manhattan West middle school—a place where not one student from the Harlem P.S. 83 elementary school had ever been admitted.
[edit] Books
Ron has written two books. The first, called The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child (2003), is being published in 25 countries. In 2004 he followed with The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children.
[edit] Trivia
- Is a speaker for the Premiere Speakers Bureau.[1]
- During the 2000 political campaigns, Clark gained notice for circling his classroom with posters for both the Al Gore and Hillary Clinton campaigns.
