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Baltimore City Schools honors Roger Shaw with lifetime achievement award; reengagement center reports thousands served

3802020 · June 11, 2025
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Summary

The board presented Roger Shaw with a lifetime achievement award and staff outlined reengagement-center metrics including intakes, home visits and student supports for the past two years.

The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners presented a lifetime achievement award June 10 to Roger Shaw, executive director of the district’s Reengagement Center, recognizing more than 37 years of service in Baltimore City Public Schools and detailed the reengagement effort’s recent activity and outcomes.

During remarks, district leaders described Shaw’s work reengaging students who have dropped out or otherwise disengaged from school. Staff cited program-level figures: over the past two years the reengagement center conducted more than 3,100 intakes, more than 4,700 home visits, 64 outreach events and over 325 online referrals; they reported support for more than 400 homeless students, nearly 250 pregnant and parenting students and nearly 625 students involved with the Department of Juvenile Services. Shaw and district leaders emphasized relationship-based support, attendance work and individual case management aimed at reconnecting students to schooling or alternative pathways.

Shaw, who spoke briefly, credited his colleagues and family, and called the work a team effort. Board members and several colleagues offered testimony describing Shaw’s long tenure as a principal, deputy chief academic officer and director of multiple district initiatives and praised his approach to serving students who are otherwise marginalized by the system.

Why it matters: Reengagement centers coordinate case work, attendance supports and alternative pathways for students who have left school or who are at risk of dropping out. The board’s recognition highlighted the district’s emphasis on reengagement and the scale of the center’s work in the last two years.

Next steps and context: Staff asked the board to continue supporting the reengagement teams and reiterated that the center partners with community organizations and district offices to expand capacity. The presentation also preceded related discussion about programs serving students involved with juvenile services and partnerships with community organizations presented later in the meeting.