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Mary Oberg is a career educator with 36 years of experience as a classroom teacher, resource teacher, administrator, and coordinator of programs for students at all grade levels. For the past 21 years, she has served as a consultant in the areas of diversity, organizational development, leadership, staff development design, curriculum design, instructional strategies and assessment in the Minneapolis Public Schools. Mary is currently the Staff Development Coordinator for the West Metro Education Program (WMEP), a consortium of Minneapolis Public Schools and nine suburban school districts dedicated to leadership and implementation of a voluntary desegregation program. In this capacity, Mary models Cognitive Coaching^SM with teachers, administrators and staff to implement a more inclusive multi-cultural curriculum to meet the needs of a changing and increasingly diverse student population. The diversity of learning styles and the impact of poverty are concepts integrated into all of Mary's workshops and presentations.

Mary's expertise derives from a wide range of educational projects and programs that have been under her direction: Whole Brain Learning Project, Curriculum Standards implementation, Instructional Design Systems, Gifted/Talented Programmatic Design, Thinking and Reasoning Skills, and research on the Impact of Standards on Diverse Urban Populations.

Mary teaches graduate courses in curriculum design, effective teaching techniques, implications of culture and style on teaching and learning, Cognitive Coaching^SM, Habits of Mind, and the Chadwick Consensus model. She is co-author of the book, Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms.

Mary Oberg
1001 West 105th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55431-3103

Telephone: 952-888-7801
Fax: 952-888-7801
E-mail: mlobrg@aol.com