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Experience

2020-present Howard University-Washington, DC

• Adjunct faculty in the Classics dept.
• Lecturer in the English dept.

2019-present Johns Hopkins University-Baltimore, MD

• Consultant/Contractor to the Department of Education in Social Studies/History Ed.

2015-present The Living Water School-Temple Hills, MD

• Founder/Head of School
• Literacy Tutor
• Overall supervision of educational program
• Hiring
• School and Business Administration

2014-2015 Montrose Christian School-Rockville, MD

• Kindergarten Teacher (I took a year break from educational leadership after the birth of my daughter)
• Teaching the approved Kindergarten program
• Partnering with K4 teachers to prepare students for kindergarten
• Providing orientation for incoming kindergarten parents and students
• Supporting the overall elementary teaching team members

2012-2014 Cornerstone Schools of DC-Washington, DC

• Head of School
• Teacher training in classical education/observation for pre K-12th grade teachers
• Business/financial management
• Student/parent relations
• Curriculum coordinator
• Overall school administration of grades pre K-12th grades

2010-2011 Chance Academy-Mt. Rainier, MD

• Literature and Theatre teacher
• Using music and drama to teach literature for grades pre K-6

Summer 2009 Accokeek Foundation Accokeek, MD

• Graduate Assistant
• Wrote online colonial history lesson plans for education department
• Wrote “Uncle Joe and the Drinking Gourd”, a play to educate about slavery during colonial times
• Participated in the museum theatre program

2006-2007 University of Maryland College Park, MD

• Graduate Assistant/Teacher’s Assistant
• Teacher’s Assistant for English in Secondary Education
• Teacher’s Assistant for Reading/Language Arts in the Elementary School Class
• Teacher’s Assistant for Action Research
• University Supervisor of student teachers-MCERT program
• Graduate Assistant for Master’s Certification in Education
• 2-Day workshop-“Drama in the Middle School Literature Class”
• Class session: Using Socratic Dialogue in Teacher Education Programs

2002-2012 Washington Classical Christian School-Hillcrest Heights, MD

• Director of Education/High School Literature Teacher
• Curriculum development
• Teacher training and observations for grades k-12 teachers
• Monitoring student learning
• Head of the Great Books literature program to grades 9th-12th
• Taught music and drama to grades K-12
• Directed school productions
• Taught the piano and recorder class to grades 3-12

Summer 2000 Lamb’s Player’s Theatre-Coronado, CA

• Drama camp director
• Stage manager for Fiddler on the Roof
• Summer drama camp director
• Theatre in Education Workshop Leader

1998-2003 Montgomery College Rockville, MD

• Adjunct Faculty (weekend programs)
• Drama classes for Saturday programs

1995-2002 Montgomery County Public Schools Rockville, MD

• Classroom Teacher
• 3rd Grade teacher
• 5th grade teacher
• 5th grade team leader
• Developed after school drama program for grades 3-5

Education

1991-1995 Howard University Washington, DC

• B.A., Elementary Education/minor in theatre
• Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society
• Trustee Scholarship
• Honors: Cum Laude

1999-2000 New York University New York, NY

• M.A., Educational Theatre

2003-2006 Howard University Washington, DC

• M.M., Music Education
• Master’s Project: created the curriculum-“The Story of African American Music”

2006-2009 St. John’s College Annapolis, MD

• M.A., Liberal Arts
• Interviewed for The College magazine (St. John’s school magazine) about how to use the arts to help students connect to the Great Books of Western Civilization
• Recipient of the Hodgson Fellowship

2005-2017 University of Maryland College Park, MD

• Ph.D., English and Literacy Education
• Dissertation Title: Living in the Constellation of the Canon: The Lived Experience of African American Students Reading Great Books Literature

Certification/Presentations/Awards/ Articles, Etc.

• State of Maryland Teacher Certification
• 2006 presentation at NYU’s Forum on Theatre for Social Justice
• 2016 presentation at University of Maryland: “The Table” A dramatic presentation on the relevance of classical literature to African American high school students
• 2018 Award of Merit by St. John’s College for excellence in education for my work in bringing classical learning to African American students
• 2019 presentation in conjunction with the United Negro College Fund and St. John’s College on the connection between studying classical literature and the educational history of African Americans
• 2019 Participant (by invitation only) in The Mastermind Conference, sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute-Creating teacher education workshops for using Socratic dialogue in the classroom
• Prather, A. T. (2019). Children are like locs. Sudbury Valley School Journal, 48, 3, 10-13
• Prather, A. T. (2018). Struggling to engage parents. Sudbury Valley School Journal, 48, 1, 47-49
• 2019 presentation at St. John’s College: “The Great Books: A Polaris for the African American People.”