Mrs. Kristen Harris

I graduated magna cum laude from University of North Texas in December of 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language Arts. Two years later, I earned a Master of Humanities from the University of Dallas. For the last three years, I have been an active member of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, and I will continue this membership for the rest of my life, for with their help, I will continue to grow as a teacher. A lifetime learner, I have always loved school and dreamed of being a teacher from a very early age. Since my family moved often while I was growing up, I found that school became my source of security.

I was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania (where I lived for only two weeks). I have also lived in Hobbs, New Mexico; Nagykanizsa, Hungary; Bakersfield, California; and all over Texas. Through these moves, I was able to experience several different types of schools which, in addition to my love of learning, allowed me to graduate a year early from Centennial High School in Bakersfield, California and begin college at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas at the age of seventeen.

I have taught in both public and private schools in the DFW area and am excited for my second year as a member of this gifted and generous staff and school. I am truly blessed, and I hope to be able to continue to share these blessings and my passion for learning with my students through setting high expectations, leading the students to meet these expectations, and being a model student myself.

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"But a teacher is not a mere guide in crafts or techniques, nor even simply a stimulator of thought, important as those functions may be. The teacher is a mediator, a conductor, between one world and another, between ignorance and comprehension, in the way Athena guides Odysseus and Virgil guides Dante." Dr. Louise Cowan