John E. Roberts is a 2012 graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has served as a middle school teacher in Michigan and was assistant director of the Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School, in Lowell, Massachusetts, from 2003 to 2006. More recently, John has taught and facilitated for professional education programs, including the Instructional Rounds Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was a contributing author to Katherine Merseth’s Inside Urban Charter Schools (Harvard Education Press) in 2009. He currently lives in Washington, DC.