Josh Cabat is the Director of English Teacher Education. He worked for 13 years as
Chair of English 6-12 for the Roslyn Public Schools. For the preceding decade, he
taught English and Film Studies at Roslyn High School in Roslyn. Previously, he taught
in the New York City public high schools for over a decade. He served on both the
National Council of Teachers of English Secondary Steering Committee and the Teacher
Advisory Council of the National Humanities Center. He was a founding member of the
Folger Shakespeare Library National Teacher Corps, and for nine years was the Teaching
Artist for the Young Film Critics program at BAM. He is the co-founder of the New
York City Student Shakespeare Festival and the North Shore Student Shakespeare Festival,
and is a founding member of Doc Academy, an organization devoted to bringing documentary
films into the secondary classroom. He has been a featured speaker at many national
conferences, and has published articles on Shakespeare and on film in publications
such as the English Journal. He earned an MA from the University of Chicago and a
BA from Columbia University.