Brian Harper is a 2024-2025 Teach Plus Teacher-Led Community Connections Network Member. He is a dual credit business teacher at Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas, credentialed teacher at the Richland campus of Dallas College, and Career and Technical Education (CTE) department chair. Brian also is the school liaison for Junior Achievement, overseeing High School Heroes and the Junior Achievement Career Fair for the business department. He has been on the Educator Collective Teacher Advisory Board for three years and is a Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) co-advisor. Brian is the Berkner High School Teacher of the Year (2013) and Nancy Moseley Elementary Teacher of the Year (2006), as well as a Teach Plus Texas Policy Fellowship alumnus. He earned his BBA in accounting from Stephen F. Austin State University, MEd in educational administration from Lamar University, and MBA in ecommerce from the Dallas campus of University of Phoenix.
