MIKE MILES
The Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2011
Superintendent
Harrison School District, Colorado
Superintendent
Harrison School District, Colorado
“Educating at-risk students is the most important work of our time. Public education needs more than incremental reform; it needs a transformation. As a life-long public servant, I hope to continue to provide the vision, leadership, and tough decision making required to transform our school systems.”
Mike Miles currently serves as superintendent of the Harrison School District in Colorado Springs, Colo. Miles has served the public interest as a soldier, statesman, and educator. A former officer in the Army Ranger Battalion, his military experience includes leading counter terrorism training operations. Miles later served in the U.S. State Department as a Soviet analyst and member of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He then served as a Diplomat to Poland and Russia at the end of the Cold War, finishing his State Department work as the Special Assistant to the Ambassador to Russia. Miles continued his commitment to public service as a teacher and principal. As an instructional leader and professional developer, he has also helped teachers and administrators statewide and in school districts nationally to improve instruction and raise student achievement. Miles holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point; a bachelor’s degree in Slavic languages and literature from the University of California at Berkeley; and a master’s degree in international and public affairs from Columbia University. Miles is a graduate of the 2011 class of The Broad Superintendents Academy.
Update | 4:18 p.m. From his official Harrison School District Two bio:Mike Miles, 55, formerly the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction of the Fountain-Ft. Carson School District is Harrison School District Two's superintendent.After graduating from West Point in 1978, Miles entered the ranks of the officer corps at Ft. Lewis, Washington, where he served in the Army's elite Ranger Battalion and commanded an Infantry Rifle Company. After the Army, Miles studied Slavic languages at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Leningrad in Russia. Miles then pursued advanced study of Soviet affairs and public policy at Columbia University after being selected as a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and winning a National Science Foundation Graduate Scholarship.Miles graduated from Columbia University in 1989 and joined the U.S. State Department as a Presidential Management Intern. He handled a portfolio usually reserved for more senior