LISBON — Marilyn Curtis, a third-grade teacher at Lisbon Community School, was one of 30 teachers selected from the state to participate in the Governor’s Academy for Science and Mathematics Leadership, 2009-2011.

The academy provided two years of intensive, professional development in knowledge and skills needed for participants to initiate, implement and support standard-based and research-based science and mathematics reform at all levels from school to state levels.

Curtis has been a science and math curriculum leader since 1990 and has presented in Maine and around the United States for NSTA, ATMNE, ATOMIM, MSTA, MMSA, MAMLE and MRA. She attended the National Science Education Leadership Institute in 2009 and has served on the board for MSTA where she served as vice president and served as representative on the ATOMIM board. She has worked on projects disseminating information on new standards, MAP, PAAP, LAD, MLR and NECAP, locally and regionally.

Through the years Curtis has received awards as Finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year, Maine Presidential Award in Science, MERIT Teacher and Golden Apple Award.

Curtis helped coordinate and present at the WMEC kindergarten to grave five math academy held last summer at the University of Maine Farmington.

The Governor’s Academy is supported by the Office of the Governor, the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance and Maine EPSCoR.

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