MEET AND MINGLE WITH 2023 D.C. TEACHER OF THE YEAR JERMAR ROUNTREE: Please join WCSU Interim President Dr. Paul Beran as WCSU alumnus Jermar Rountree will be on campus to speak with us from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in White Hall, Room 127, Midtown campus.

Jermar Rountree graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in History and began working at the Grassy Plain YMCA in nearby Bethel — first as a teacher, then as the Physical Education Director, and ultimately as the Assistant Director of the entire program. He also began a 10-year journey to obtain a master’s degree in Early Education. In 2012, Rountree took a job at D.C. Prep Public Charter School in Northeast Washington alongside McDermott, before joining Center City Public Charter School in 2016. Last year, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser arrived at his school to announce that Rountree had been named 2023 District of Columbia Teacher of the Year in a surprise ceremony organized by his coworkers.

Learn more about Jermar at www.wcsu.edu/success-stories/2022/12/09/2023-d-c-teacher-of-the-year-jermar-rountree-found-his-calling-at-wcsu/.