Dr. Charles Herring is the recent recipient of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association’s Innovative School Leader of the Year Award that recognizes his leadership in building innovative programs for leading or building a school district in the 21st century.

Dr. Herring is currently the Director of Equity and Inclusion at South Fayette School District in McDonald, PA. He has been in the field of education for more than twenty five years.

He is creative – having created America’s first Hip-Hop Superhero – GRAMMAR MAN – an educational program that uses rap music and storytelling as tools to teach students the parts of speech.

He has traveled the country to speak for organizations on the topic of educational needs in our society and has been a TEDx speaker where his topic was From 2.3 to D.O.C.: Mentors, Mantras and Hip-Hop.

He created two additional programs – Black History is Not Just a Month, and The Mathematics Magician. He is also the author of a successful memoir in essays title, You can Only Hope to Contain Me – It’s Impossible to Stop a Person Who Won’t Quit.

Dr. Herring is a remarkable man who not only understands the critical needs of education in our country – but actually DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT.