Dr. Marsha Carr-Lambert

Assistant Professor

Year Honored: 1994

University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington

At the time of the Award, Dr. Marsha Carr-Lambert was:

Teacher
South Penn Elementary School
Cumberland, MD

http://people.uncw.edu/carrm/

Biographical Information

Marsha Carr serves on the faculty of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is coordinator of the Watson School of Education Masters of School Administration program. Carr previously served as a superintendent of schools in West Virginia for the past decade. Her other prior roles include serving as a Pre-K - 12 principal, Director of curriculum/instructional technology, and a reading specialist during her 35 years of service. In 1994, Carr received the Milken National Educator Award as a reading specialist, a Teacher of the Year award for Allegany County, Maryland and was recognized by the Maryland House of Delegates as well as received the Maryland Governor’s Citation for her work. Carr has been published in educational magazines and journals including The Administrator and Virginia Educational Leadership as well as a 20-book emergent level reading series called StoryMakers. She is also the author of Educational Leadership: From Hostile Takeover to a Sustainable –Successful System and is presently under contract for The School Planning Guide: From Turnaround to Transition. Carr has traveled to and studied educational systems in Australia, New Zealand, and schools on the continent of Africa. Carr earned a B.A. in Art and M.A. in Reading from West Virginia University (WV), M.A. in Administration from Frostburg State University (MD) and a doctorate in Management from the University of Phoenix. Carr can be reached at carrm@uncw.edu.

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Personal Message

As we all embrace our daily hurdles, our quest to survive in a flat world brings even greater challenges. Slowly the United States appears to be growing weaker while other counties gain momentum as leading powers through our outsourcing. Finger pointing to our public schools is not going to change the end result. It will take all of us working harder with one vision and a mission to maintain and sustain world power.

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