Rebecca HowardRebecca Howard, Ph.D., is an early childhood consultant, professional development trainer and university instructor. She holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership and an M.A. in Theater, is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and is a faculty member at Miami Uniersity in Oxford, Ohio, where she has held a variety of teaching and advising positions since 2000 in teacher education, educational leadership, interdisciplinary studies and theater. She founded the Oxford Early Childhood Center in 1986, and she was owner/administrator and lead teacher until the program closed in 2014. While operating OECC, she created the OECC Integrated Curriculum, which was grounded in creativity and culturally responsive practice as foundational pedagogical components of a comprehensive approach to development across domains. She has presented at numerous professional conferences, published articles for Childhood Education and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, authored a chapter on dramatic play and gender performance in the book Children Under Construction: Play as Curriculum (2010), and co-edited an anthology of plays titled Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive (2008). She resides in Oxford, where she is a member of the local school board and works with local non-profits, advocating for childhood literacy and the arts. Read More Read Less