Robin

Robin Marcus, MS (Mathematics), Member of the Board of Directors

Robin Marcus is an expert in math and STEM education, competency-based education, and school transformation; an experienced educator, instructional coach, curriculum writer, and facilitator of professional learning; an accomplished program designer from vision through implementation, evaluation, and refinement; and a respected change agent known for hard work, competence, passion, listening, and reflective thinking.

Robin comes to her role as Advisor on Mathematics and STEM curriculum more than two decades of experience improving teaching and learning, particularly for students traditionally under-served in our educational system, to consulting work with the Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM (TIES), the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), and other educational organizations. Current work focuses on building the capacity of school districts to implement, scale, and sustain powerful teaching and learning practices grounded in formative assessment to achieve college and career readiness math standards.

At NC New Schools, Robin led the turnaround of ten chronically underachieving high schools through a focus on inquiry-based teaching and learning and formative assessment. She went on to oversee the design, facilitation and continuous improvement of the organization’s professional learning offerings for a network of 150+ schools and, later, to launch and lead a new Research & Development department, growing the organization’s capacity to both improve its current approaches, as well as innovate to design future approaches.

Prior to joining NC New Schools, Robin served as an instructional coach and teacher in an innovative high school in Baltimore, where she increased the school’s pass rate on the state math test for AYP from 11% to more than 80% in just one year through a focus on inquiry-based teaching and learning and formative assessment. Robin has provided thousands of hours of professional development for district, school and classroom leaders in national, regional and local workshops and served on the development team of Core-Plus Mathematics, an innovative high school math curriculum.

ABD, Robin completed coursework for a PhD in curriculum and instruction at the University of Maryland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Drake University and a master’s degree in mathematics from Michigan State University. She and her husband have four children spanning preschool to college and live in Durham, NC.