Word: birkett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the school security guard, Glenn S. Harris, says Birkett works like a man possessed...
Because of the structure of the charter school, Birkett has reason to put in long hours. He hires and fires teachers directly, manages a $3.8 million budget and holds weekly full- staff meetings. He communicates with the Board of Trustees, the school's governing overseers...
...Birkett is responsible for ensuring the school's five-year contract gets renewed in late fall...
...challenges are many, but they seem to invigorate Birkett...
...Birkett headed toward Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where he received his master's in 1995. Though his initial job as Assistant Head Master at Boston's Renaissance School "literally fell into my lap," as he says, he beat out 35 other applicants to become Banneker's executive director in the June...