Lakewood alum Fowler making a big difference in training
NEWARK – He’s on a path to enable other folks – in much the way he was assisted.
“As a child,” commenced Denver Fowler, “I would have to say I mainly dreamed of staying a professional athlete or fighter jet pilot. Outside the house of that, I also thought a good deal about turning out to be a coal miner or becoming a member of the armed forces as my grandpa Fowler coal mined his entire life in the point out of West Virginia (just before dying of black lung illness), my grandma Fowler was a Rosie the Riveter, my grandpa Moran was a tank commander in World War II (fighting in two major strategies, Normandy and the Fight of the Bulge), and I had many uncles in the armed service.”
“However, a calendar year or so after significant school,” he ongoing, “I started to reflect on what it is I specifically want to do with my existence. I commenced to feel about all the persons who experienced the most positive influence on me, and most of people persons had been all educators, such as superintendents, principals, athletic administrators, academics, and coaches. It was then I started out to consider about how I wished to be aspect of that, serving as an educator and mentor, and getting a good impact on many others, specifically learners.”
Right now, Fowler is the office chair and associate professor (tenured) in the division of educational management and plan research at Southern Connecticut Point out University in New Haven, Connecticut.
“In small,” he described, “in addition to top our section, I get ready aspiring college leaders which includes superintendents, principals, assistant principals and athletic administrators, as well as foreseeable future professors, who go on to prepare aspiring college leaders at schools and universities throughout the country and all-around the world.”
Now 42, Fowler grew up in large portion about Buckeye Lake and Hebron. From 5th to 12th quality, he attended Lakewood Area Schools and graduated from Lakewood HS in 1997. He went on to graduate from Ohio State with a BS in training in 2003, a master’s in schooling from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in 2006 and a Ph.D. in academic administration from Ohio University in 2014. He also concluded the School Management Institute at Harvard University and he’s now a certified superintendent, principal and instructor in Ohio, California and Connecticut.
“Like most young ones who improve up with minor to no funds,” he said, “raised by a solitary mother and moved about a ton, I would describe myself as a kid who was somewhat shed to say the least. Even so, I experienced a real champion and advocate in my mom and my grandparents. You know the expressing, ‘If you want your small children to convert out nicely, invest 2 times as substantially time with them, and 50 % as much dollars?’ Effectively, I had that, and I wouldn’t transform everything about my childhood.”
“I initial realized I was fascinated in serving in academia,’ he continued, “during my time as a part-time adjunct teacher at Ohio Point out from 2009-2015. However, eventually, it was throughout my doctoral method at Ohio University that I started to give much more critical believed to the chance of producing the leap to the greater education and learning location comprehensive-time.”
“Prior to creating the bounce to bigger schooling complete-time,” he added, “I served for more than a 10 years in the PreK-12 educational placing as a coach, trainer, athletic director, engineering coordinator and faculty administrator. In 2015, I was named the assistant principal of the yr in the state Ohio, and I was nominated for the assistant principal of the 12 months in the United States. Furthermore, I gained recognition from the U.S. Property of Reps for my company in the PreK-12 educational setting. These awards, recognition and nominations afforded me the prospect to converse on Capitol Hill and advocate on behalf of our nation’s faculty leaders, educators, pupils and mothers and fathers, advocating for bills that would advantage our nation’s lowest undertaking educational institutions.”
Just after operating at faculties at various destinations around the region, Fowler begun at Southern Connecticut Condition in 2020.
“Denver is a particular person who’s focused to his industry of academic management,” assessed Dr. Sarah Jouganatos at California Condition University, Sacramento. “He potential customers and teaches with the students’ needs in head. In brief, he is an advocate for the communities and folks he serves.”
“Truthfully, as a child,” Fowler responded, “I in no way in a million yrs dreamed I would be doing what I’m executing now. It was certainly a route of lots of ups and downs, twists and turns, and the like. Yet, I’m certainly grateful each individual and each working day for all of my blessings and the damaged highway that led me to the place I am and what I’m accomplishing now. I most definitely did not do it on your own. In addition to God, there are so quite a few folks who have been aspect of my journey, and I will generally remember that.”
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