Colin Dabkowski
I teach English, multimedia production, creative writing and acting at Alden High School, where I advise the student media program WACS and the school’s Gender-Sexuality Alliance, PRISM, and direct the school’s theater productions.
Before I taught, I spent 15 years in journalism, nearly 13 of them at The Buffalo News as an arts critic, Sunday columnist and digital editor. The way I see it, teaching is just journalism for a smaller audience.
In 2025, I received the Early Career Teacher Award from the Center for English Teaching and gave the keynote at its banquet. [Add a line on current PD work and anything else you want hiring committees to see first.]
- College English 12
- Multimedia Production
- Creative Writing
- Introduction to Acting
- Freshman Seminar
Alden High School · Adviser, WACS student media · Co-adviser, PRISM · Theater director
- B.A., Syracuse University, 2004: dual major in magazine journalism (Newhouse School) and Spanish
- M.S.Ed., English education (grades 7–12), Buffalo State, 2022, after its postbaccalaureate teacher certification program
- Early Career Teacher Award, Center for English Teaching, 2025
- First place, arts and entertainment writing, New York State Associated Press Association, for “Creative Healing” (2008)
- PASS Award, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2006, for Surviving Justice (managing editor)
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