Shereen Holmes Senior Professorial Lecturer City Teaching Alliance Program

Degrees: B.S in Mass Communication - Public Relations and Psychology - Towson University, Towson, MD

MAT in Elementary Education - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Ed.D in Education Leadership - Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
Bio: Dr. Shereen Holmes is the Director of Clinical Faculty for the Baltimore site. She has been with City Teaching Alliance (formally Urban Teachers-UT) since 2018 and has served as a professor with City Teaching Alliance in collaboration with the American University, School of Education.

Prior to her work with City Teaching Alliance, she served as an elementary education teacher, testing coordinator, Title I teacher, and academic coach with Baltimore City Public Schools in Baltimore, MD. She holds a master’s in teaching from Johns Hopkins University and has taken various graduate level courses in school leadership at Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD and Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC.

Dr. Holmes received a doctorate from Arkansas State University-Jonesboro in May of 2024. Her dissertation work sought to establish a relationship between multicultural teaching practices and school reform.

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