Mary Kadera for Arlington School Board
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  • Home
  • About
    • My Story
    • Work Highlights
    • Being an Ally
  • Issues
    • Competent + Committed Educators
    • School Culture
    • Authentic Engagement
    • Good Governance + Data
    • Equity
  • Endorsements
  • Volunteer
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Donate

Work Highlights

Work Highlights:
  • Classroom Teacher: I taught high school English and Biology, including lesson planning and co-teaching with special education and reading resource staff.
  • Vice President of Education, PBS: I led PBS’s national education services, which included early childhood programming and outreach in literacy and math, standards-based content for K-12 students, and a $25 million U.S. Department of Education grant to produce some of the earliest online professional development courses for teachers.
  • Consultant: For 13 years, I worked with several national education nonprofits to focus their priorities, improve their operations, conduct and apply research, launch new products and programs,  obtain grants, plan events, make hard decisions, and generally get better at what they do. My clients included Edutopia, Learning Forward, the Consortium for School Networking, the Astra Center for Innovative Education, the Inspired Teaching Demonstration School in DC, and others.
  • Course Producer at TED: I’m currently working at TED to lead the development of new digital offerings for lifelong learners.
  • For more detail, please see https://www.linkedin.com/in/marykadera/ 

Some of My  Writing:
  • Arlington makes a bad move on elementary schools (Op-Ed, Washington Post)
  • Education in the Early Days of COVID: What States Are Learning and Doing (Report, Astra Center for Innovative Teaching)
  • School Climate Surveys: What Are States Measuring? (Report, Astra Center for Innovative Education)
  • Engagement-based education: At the end of the road trip (Blog Post, Center for Inspired Teaching)
  • What Matters Now: A New Compact for Teaching and Learning (Report Contributor, National Commission for Teaching and America’s Future)

Projects I’ve Contributed to:

  • Edutopia’s “Schools That Work” series (see, for example, this story on sensory rooms and other special education services in Meriden Public Schools, CT)
  • TED-Ed, TED’s youth and education initiative
  • Speak Truth, a program of student-led conversations about current events that brings together youth from DC’s public, private, and charter high schools
  • Inspired Teaching Residency, a program that for ten years recruited and trained diverse college graduates to become teachers in DC public schools
  • Learn English with TED Talks, an app for high school and adult English language learners 
  • TED@Work, a platform for workplace learning that covers topics including emotional intelligence, communication, leadership, collaboration, equity, and inclusion.
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