BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Benjamin O. Canada, Ph.D.

Mr. Canada is Associate Executive Director, District Services, Texas Association of School Boards.  He worked in the education field for 35 years and served as a special education teacher, middle school vice principal, elementary principal, junior high principal, high school principal, assistant superintendent, deputy superintendent, and superintendent.  He served as public schools superintendent in Portland, Oregon; Atlanta, Georgia; and Jackson, Mississippi. 

He served as assistant superintendent for business/finance and operations services and deputy superintendent in Tucson, Arizona. He has served on numerous boards, including The Harvard University Urban Superintendents Advisory Board for nine years; The Danforth Forum for the American School Superintendent for ten years; and six years as a National Advisory Board Member of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards & Student Testing (CRESST) He earned a Ph.D. in Education Administration at The University of Texas at Austin in 1989; M.Ed. in Education Administration at The University of Washington in 1971; and a BA in Elementary Education with emphasis in special education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1967.

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