Marsha Carr

Dr. Marsha L. Carr, an award winning educator, joined the faculty in Educational Leadership at the Watson College of Education Leadership at the University of North Carolina Wilmington after 35 years of service in private and public education. Carr, the first female school superintendent in her district as well as the youngest superintendent, served for over a decade as a superintendent of schools in West Virginia. Prior to this appointment, she served as a Pre-K - 12th grade school principal, a director of Curriculum & Instructional Technology, and a reading specialist.

While a reading specialist in an inner city school, frustrated by the lack of available reading materials, Carr began to travel and study whole language in educational systems in Australia and New Zealand. In 1993, Carr designed a 20-book emergent level reading series named StoryMakers, which became an international success and was later published in two languages. Carr was named Teacher of the Year in Allegany County, Maryland and was recognized by the Maryland House of Delegates as well as received the Maryland Governor's Citation for her work. In 1994, Carr was honored with the National Milken Family Educator Award, the most coveted educator award, and joined a prestigious family of outstanding educators around the nation as well as serves as a Fulbright Specialist. Carr has presented at over a hundred conferences and been published in numerous educational magazines and journals.

Presently Carr is a consultant in self-mentoring® a leadership development program she developed. Learn more about self-mentoring® at http://selfmentoring.net or contact her at selfmentoring@uncw.edu and follow on Twitter @doccarr.