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Dr. John Howard
Director
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Dr. John Howard
Director
Dr. John E. Howard has been in education for 28 years. He holds degrees from North Carolina Central University (B.A. in English/Media Journalism), Bowie State University (M.A. in Literature), and Johns Hopkins University (Ed.D. in Educational Leadership).
Dr. Howard teaches English, Research Methods, and a course he created called Hip Hop Poetics and Rhetoric. in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). He is a former International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) Coordinator. He has also served as a Consulting Teacher for MCPS, and English department chair at John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Dr. Howard serves on the Curriculum Advisory Committee for MCPS, and the advisory committee for the Hip Hop History and Culture class created for MCPS. He is a member of the leadership team for the Building Our Network of Diversity (BOND) Project, which is committed to advancing efforts to recruit, develop, support, and retain male educators of color at all grade levels nationwide. Dr. Howard has also taught previously in Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland, and Durham County Public Schools in North Carolina. Dr. Howard has served as a dissertation advisor at Johns Hopkins University and has taught a course on Culturally Responsive Teaching for the University of Arkansas.
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Dr. Howard is co-director for Project ENRICH, a program in Prince George’s County, Maryland, sponsored by the Gamma Pi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., which provides African-American high school students college preparatory opportunities. Dr. Howard’s academic interests include analyzing the value of teacher credentials in the screening and selection of teacher candidates.
Dr. Howard has been married for 24 years to his wife Dezmona. He has three children, John Cameron, a senior at North Carolina Central University, David, a sophomore at Morgan State University, and Julye, a 10th grader at Frederick Douglass High School.