Mary Kim Schreck
Mary Kim Schreck is a consultant, coach, and author. She serves as an education consultant for districts across America as well as for the National Writing Project and the National Education Association. Mary Kim also works as a cadre member for Dr. Bonnie Davis Educating for Change. She has published a professional development book, Transformers: Creative Teachers for the 21st Century (2009), and four books of poetry. She has served as editor of Missouri Teachers Write and written articles for national and state education journals. During her thirty-six years as a classroom teacher, Mary Kim taught in a variety of settings. She taught at an all-girls private academy, a small 270-student rural school that served grades 6 through 12, and a public school of over 4,000 students in three grades on a split-shift schedule. She also spent years tutoring for the St. Louis (Missouri) Special School District. She later taught classes at Brown s Business College and served as a literacy coach at Vashon High School, an inner-city school in St. Louis. Most of her teaching career was spent in the Francis Howell School District in St. Charles County, Missouri, a rural school district that was forced to transform into a suburban district within a few years. Mary Kim has taught hundreds of teachers through various workshops, presentations, and consulting opportunities. She has been an instructor for the Literacy Academies, a partnership program between the Missouri National Writing Project and the Missouri state department of education, and for the Beginning Teachers Assistance Program offered through the Missouri National Education Association. Mary Kim lives with her husband, Bernard, at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
Mary Kim Schreck
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