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Mary Eleanor Johnson Harris (born September 1963)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Harris, September 1963 )〕 is a Republican departing short-term member of the 11-person Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE); her District 4 encompasses eleven parishes in northwestern Louisiana: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, Vernon, Webster, and Winn.〔 BESE sets policies for some 700,000 public school pupils statewide.〔 ==Background== Harris is one of five children, four surviving, born in Shreveport to the late Julius Johnson and Eleanor Frazier Johnson (1933-2014), who was an active Roman Catholic and a secretary for St. Johns Berchelmans Grade School and the B'Nai Zion Jewish congregation in Shreveport. Mary Johnson Harris received her bachelor's degree in liberal arts, with teacher certification, from Louisiana State University in Shreveport, date unavailable. In 2005, she obtained a master's degree in counseling from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. In 2007, she obtained an educational specialist degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Thereafter, she pursued another forty-five graduate hours from Louisiana Tech.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Eleanor Johnson Harris )〕 Her training includes elementary education leadership and childhood literacy.〔 Harris is married to Keith David Harris. They have a son, Robert Keith "Robbie" Harris〔 (born September 1984).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Harris, September 1984 )〕 She also has two stepdaughters and three grandchildren. A Christian, specific denomination not mentioned, she has been involved in various mission trips and as a result has taught in such countries as Mexico, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Harris began her career when her son was in kindergarten and she was in school two to three nights per week while also working. "I don't think I could have done this if I had not had a wonderful support system in my husband and parent," she said.〔 Since 2011, Harris has been the principal of South Highlands Elementary Academic and Performing Arts Magnet School in Shreveport. Her magnet school has twice been designated a "Blue Ribbon School of Excellence."〔 From 2009 to 2011, Harris she was the instructional coordinator at the Oak Park MicroSociety Elementary School in Shreveport. Earlier, from 2007 to 2009, she was master teacher at South Highlands Elementary School. From 2003 to 2007, she was a reading specialist at Summer Grove Elementary School. Prior to 2002, she was affiliated with St. Joseph Elementary School in Shreveport.〔 Her Facebook campaign website in 2015 indicates that she the had twenty-seven years of experience in professional education.〔 Harris is a former "Teacher of the Year" for both Caddo Parish and the northwestern region of her state. Both former Governor Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat, and outgoing State Senator Sherri Smith Buffington, a Republican, recognized her for her achievements in education. She once testified before a congressional committee on National Board Certification for teachers. She is a past winner of the National Milken Family Foundation Teacher Award.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Johnson Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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