Claude Archer is currently an instructional staffing officer for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, where he helps to recruit, select and place teachers for the fourth largest school district in the nation. At the time he received the Milken Educator Award, he was a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elementary School in Miami, where he implemented an Academic Excellence Program that tailored the curriculum to the needs of his exceptional students. He is National Board Certified as an Exceptional Needs Specialist for Early Childhood through Young Adult, and has earned a degree as a specialist in education at the University of Miami.
1990 University of Miami, B.A.