Dr. Creedon has been a classroom teacher, program creator and director, administrator, evaluator, grant writer, professional development creator and presenter, deputy chief academic officer for academic enrichment and support, assistant superintendent, and superintendent of schools. He has worked in public and private education in service to our nation's youth.
In addition, Dr. Creedon has served on the boards of cultural organizations in Philadelphia and understands the different roles of corporate leadership and board fiduciary oversight and responsibility. He was the founding chair of the Board of the Commonwealth Youth Choirs that has grown from just 15 boys to more than 800 boys and girls in the Philadelphia area. He has also been on the Board of the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership since 1998 and has recently joined the Board of Muscopia and the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia Writing Project based at the University of Pennsylvania.
Over the years, Dr. Creedon has served on the Education Sub-Committees of numerous cultural organizations such as the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Reads, Pennsylvania Ballet, and Opera Philadelphia.
For more information on Dr. Creedon's work, please visit Education Week's article and video when he was recognized as a national Leader to Learn From in March 2014. https://leaders.edweek.org/profile/dennis-w-creedon/?intc=ltlfmorepics
“As Philadelphia Assistant Superintendent Dennis Creedon noted recently, music and arts education is “not a frill. It’s actually the center of the core.” He continued, “If you cut these out of schools, you are really cutting the heart out of our children and their future.”
Creedon emphasizes that arts education gives students “the ability to not only express themselves, but to explore their own potential. . . . The arts are one of the things that enables us to have a resilience of hope. And the resiliency, that ‘grit’ that is needed in education to make it, is something that children have to have if they are going to not give up [during] the struggles that we have in life.”’ National Association for Music Educators, NAfME.org 2014
Dr. Creedon sees school administrators and teachers individually and collectively as our nation's true heroes. While there is always room for improvement, he views the unrelenting negative attacks on public education as undermining the foundations of our democracy. In truth, teachers are some of the lowest paid professionals in our society and yet, all other professions depend on the foundational work of K-12 teachers and administrators.
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Dr. Creedon's Awards and honors
District Administrator Magazine, TechXellence Award for Mahopac Central School District, Dec. 2017,
Fleisher Art Memorial, 27th Annual Founder's Award, June 2016,
Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Distinguished Service Award, April 2014,
Education Week, Leader to Learn From, March 2014,
Enchantement Theater Company, Eden Award, December 2013,
U of P & World Affairs Council, Phila-Nipponica Fellowship, Japan, June and July 1997,
PA Council on the Arts, PA Dept. of Education, Pa Alliance for Arts Education, "Best Practice Site" in Arts Integration, March 1997,
Phi Delta Kappa, U of P Chapter, Excellence in Innovative Teaching Award, April 1995,
NEH Fellowship – Mozart, His Vienna, His Music, & His Time. Vienna, Austria, June and July 1994,
School District of Philadelphia's Superintendent's "Excellence In Teaching Award," May 1994.
Phi Delta Kappan, March 2011, v. 92-6, p. 34-36.
Creedon, D.W., 2011, Phi Delta Kappan, v. 92-6, p. 36.