Ms. Howell believes there is a “direct correlation between academics and how a student is doing emotionally.”
Ms. Howell believes there is a “direct correlation between academics and how a student is doing emotionally.”

Jessica Howell, an intervention specialist at Perrysburg High School, knew from the time she was a little girl that she would follow either her mother into education or her father into law enforcement.

She chose the former while her only sibling, a brother, chose the latter.

At PHS since 2019, Mrs. Howell co-teaches biology and forensics classes and is responsible for students in grades 9 to 12 on I…