Howard M. Katzoff is a retired school teacher who taught English, Social Studies and Drama for forty years and now serves as co-director of Educate the Whole Child. As a Project ARTS Coordinator in New York City, he also supported arts instruction for thirty-three schools in the South Bronx. In 2003, he piloted the STARRR Program, Substitute Teachers for The Arts and 3 Rs, which still brings performing artists into public school classrooms as substitute teachers. He retired in November 2007.