Robert P. Marino

Robert P. Marino has a MAT in early childhood education. He taught the early grades for eight years and spent 12 years as an elementary school principal. He served on the National Expert Review Panel for "Reading First." As an EDC Senior Scientist, he worked for two years as International Literacy Consultant to the Ministry of Education in the Republic of Guyana. Mr. Marino held a number of school restructuring and literacy consulting positions with Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore City Schools, and a consortium of charter schools. He spent two years working at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands where he assisted the Provincial Ministry of Education to create "green" schools. He has taught as an adjunct instructor at several universities including Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, the University of Maryland, and Towson University.