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Michael C. Johanek
Senior Fellow
Director, Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership
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Education
B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University,
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Professional Biography
Dr. Johanek is a Senior Fellow
and Director of the Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Educational
Leadership at the Graduate School of Education, University of
Pennsylvania.
Before coming to Penn in the spring of 2007, he served as Vice
President of Professional Services for Teachscape, a for-profit blended
technology services company, where he managed all service engagements
nationally. He is the former Executive Director for K-12 Professional
Development, The College Board, where he managed programs supporting
over 500,000 middle and high school teachers, college faculty,
coordinators, and administrators, including those involved in the
Advanced Placement Program. He founded, developed, and managed a
25-person program development and operations department with
responsibilities including new product development, in-person training,
web services, electronic and print publications, regional office
operational support, marketing and research. A former high school
teacher in the U.S. and Peru, he taught in and managed the Fellows in
Teaching Program at Teachers College, Columbia University prior to
joining the College Board.
Dr. Johanek has occasionally taught at New York University’s
Steinhardt School of Education. He currently serves on the Working
Group for Postsecondary Linkage Efforts to Improve College Readiness
for the U.S. Department of Education, and recently served on the
Annenberg Commission on Public Schools for their Institutions of
Democracy Project. He served as co-PI and advisor in several National
Science Foundation-funded professional development research projects,
on the National Education Advisory Board for the French & Indian
War 250th Anniversary Commemoration, and on the Organization of
American Historians-Advanced Placement Joint Advisory Board on Teaching
the U.S. History Survey. He recently served on the Alumni Council at
Teachers College, Columbia University, and on the Board of Trustees of The Concord Review.
Selected Publications
Johanek, M., & Puckett. J. (2007). Leonard Covello and the Making of BenjaminFranklinHigh School – Education as If Citizenship Mattered.Philadelphia:Temple University Press.
Johanek, M., & Puckett. J. (2005). The state of civic education:
Preparing citizens in an era of accountability. In M. Lazerson & S.
Fuhrman (Eds.), The public schools. The Institutions of American Democracy series. New York: Oxford University Press.
Johanek, M., & Puckett. J. (2004). Accounting for Citizenship. Education Week.
Johanek, M. (2004). Race, gender and ethnicity in the United States History Survey. The History Teacher, 37(4).
Johanek, M. (Ed.) (2001). A Faithful Mirror: Reflections on the College Board and Education in America. College Board.
Johanek, M. & Stewart, D. (1996). The evolution of College Entrance Examinations. In J.B. Baron & D.P. Wolf (Eds.), Performance-Based
Student Assessment: Challenges and Possibilities. Ninety-Fifth Yearbook
of the National Society for the Study of Education, PartI. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Johanek, M. (1992). Private citizenship and school choice. Educational Policy, 6(2).
Johanek, M. and Stewart, D. Enhanced academic connections: Deweyan
waste, limited pipelines, and intellectual vitality. In P.M. Timpane
and L.S. White (Eds.), Higher Education and School Reform.
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