Patrick Dudash

PE and Health Teacher, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

Patrick Dudash is a physical education and health teacher and has been at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland for five years. As a teacher, he is well aware of the interest in cutting or decreasing physical education, health and the arts in K-12 schools and is an advocate for co-curricular sports as well as physical education in the classroom.

Dudash comes from a family of educators ranging from pre-school education to college professors, and he has been involved in playing and coaching sports in K-12 programs since he was in high school. He is a father of two young children and lives with his wife and family in Middletown, MD. In addition to his BS in education from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, he has a master's degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in physical education.