Barr Fellows

Jesse Solomon

Executive Director, Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE)

Jesse Solomon serves as executive director of BPE, which runs the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School, Dearborn STEM Academy (DSA), and Boston Promise Corps (BPC). BPE is engaged in creating and running a neighborhood-based, pre-K–12 pathway of Teaching Academy schools.

Mr. Solomon currently services on the board of directors of Cambridge College, is the co-founder of BTR. He previously taught middle and high school math for ten years at the King Open School in Cambridge, Brighton High School in Boston, and City on a Hill Public Charter School in Boston. He has been an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is a National Board-certified teacher.