Mary Kim Schreck

Educational Consultant

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EXPERIENCE

 

Instructor for the MISSOURI LITERACY ACADEMIES facilitated by the Missouri Writing

Projects Network in partnership with the Missouri Regional Professional Development Centers

Teach for America Team Facilitator and Workshop Presenter

Gateway Writing Project Trainer-Mehlville School District (2004-2007)

Literacy Consultant for Trice Educational Resources, Sweet Land, Texas (2002- present)

(literacy coach at Vashon H.S. St. Louis two years, Van Horn H.S. Kansas City three years)

Trainer for Missouri National Education Association Initiatives: Beginning Teacher Training,

Priority Schools Initiative, Praxis II preparation, I Can Do It classroom management courses

Language Arts Teacher/Dept. Chair: Francis Howell North HS (1979-2001); Brown’s Business

School (1976-1978); Special School District (1971-1975); Holman Junior High, Pattonville

School District (1971-1973); McCluer HS (1969-1971); Cardinal Stritch HS grades7-12, Iowa,

((1968-1969); Notre Dame Academy, Quincy, IL (1966-1968)

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Specialized Training of Trainers: Priority Schools Initiative, Scholastic Red, Reading 180,

Step Up to Writing, Praxis I,II Student Assistance, Beginning Teachers Assistance California

Program-I Can Do It for Classrooom Management, Ruby Payne on Poverty

Gateway Writing Project Institute

Degree Hours: Truman University and UMSL 58 hours post Masters degree,

Lindenwood College/UMSL Masters in English Education,

Notre Dame College (English major, Speech, Drama, Theology minors)

West Palm Beach Poetry Festival: week’s work with poet, Mark Doty

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Editor of MISSOURI TEACHERS WRITE, literary magazine for the Missouri Association of

the Teachers of English (2005-present)

MAP Consultant: Kansas City School District (2005-2006), trainer for summer MAP workshops

Columbia, Stockton, Moberly, St. Charles (2003) Member of the MAP Communication Arts Item Content Team, 2000

Featured Speaker:  IRA State Conference, 2006; Write To Learn Conference, 2007, 2008

Workshop Writer/Presenter for Certification Training for Para-Pro, Praxis II  at  every Missouri

university and college (2002-present); Beginning Teacher Certification (2000-present)

Member of the MAP Communication Arts Item Content Team, 2000; Maryland state, 2005

Conference Presenter for the following organizations:

                NSDC Conferences

                Missouri Council of School Administrators Reading Academy

                Missouri Division of Youth Services Programs

                Kansas City ASCD Conference

                DESE’s Write to Learn Conferences

                NCTE National Conventions

                National Reading Association Conferences, and State Conventions

                Show-Me Professional Development Conferences

                MNEA and MSTA State Conventions

                Principals’ Academy

                Missouri Writers’ Guild Local Organizations

Keynotes: Tennessee State Convention of Teachers, 2007; Oklahoma Regional Convention of Women Educators DKG, 2007;

Kaysinger Rural Teachers Association, 2008; Missouri Delta Kappa Gamma Conference, 2008; Write To Learn Conference, 2008

Cadre Member of the Cooperating School Districts (CSD), Missouri Humanities Consortium

Writer for the State sponsored Show-Me Performance Task Writing Project with Grant Wiggins 

 

PUBLISHED WORKS/ARTICLES

 

Pulse of the Seasons (2004) (2005)  and The Red Desk (2005), Crystal Doorknobs (2006)  Body Language (2007)

books of poetry published by TigressPress, Columbia, Missouri.

Articles for THE MISSOURI ENGLISH BULLETIN (2001,2004); for THE ENGLISH JOURNAL (1998-2001) five articles; 

NCTE’s NOTES PLUS (1994-2003) four articles;

MISSOURI READER (1999) feature article, section in Bonnie Davis’s How to Coach Teachers Who Don’t Think Like You (2007)

Poetry in MISSOURI TEACHERS WRITE, WELL-VERSED, MISSOURI CONSERVATIONIST, other poetry magazines

                                                           

                                               

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION   

                               

Recipient of the HOWELL OF FAME AWARD, 1999

Recipient of the 1998 Celebrate Literacy Aware from the IRA Council, Missouri

National Finalist and Missouri State Winner in the NEA/KODAK “Cameras in the Classroom”

Two First Place Ribbons for the Missouri Great Rivers Project Curriculum Development

Outstanding Secondary Educator, Pattonville School District

Teacher of the Year, Francis Howell North

Missouri Certificate of Commendation from the Missouri Council of Teachers of English

Most Influential Teacher awarded by University of Missouri, Columbia

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

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