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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.

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 where he took 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.

Accolades

His efforts and dedication to his pupils have brought him to the White House on three occasions to be honored by the president. In 2000 he was awarded Disney's American Teacher of the Year.

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.

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.

Trivia

During the 2000 political campaigns, Clark gained notice for circling his classroom with posters for both the Al Gore and Hillary Clinton campaigns. (Note: This can be seen in his Premiere Speakers Bureau preview video.)

As a speaker for [1] Premiere Speakers Bureau, his corporate speaking fee is $17,500 + travel; his education speaking fee is $12,500 + travel.

External links

• About Ron Clark
• About Ron Clark 2
• Video of Ron Clark
• Ron Clark Academy Website
• The Ron Clark Story IMDB

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