Alma Wright’s teaching career began in 1964 as a first grade teacher of 36 boys at the Dudley Elementary School in the Roxbury section of Boston, MA. In 1969 she became a first- and second-grade teacher at the William Monroe Trotter School in the Roxbury/Dorchester section of Boston. The Trotter was a Magnet School and this allowed Ms. Wright to be very innovative and creative as a teacher. She was able to team teach with another first and second grade teacher for seven years. During the 80’s her students got an early start in the application of technology. She spent summers and after school working with Semour Papert and Mitchel Resnick at the MIT Media Lab. Using Lego building blocks and a software program called "Lego Logo," Ms. Wright's students build toy cars whose movements they program into the computer. Ms. Wright played a key role in the school's NetDay project and other technology program in the Boston Public Schools. In October 1989 she was one of five teachers featured in a Teaching and Computer Special Supplement on Teaching for the Nineties She was selected to participate in Massachusetts Pre-Engineer Program (Mass PEP)in 1995-1998, which trains teachers to encourage young girls to become more interested in math and science. In 2010 she was moved from the first grade classroom to the Computer Lab at the Trotter. She was the computer teacher for 11 years at the Trotter. Ms. Wright spent 56 years teaching in the Boston Public School System. She taught in the Boston Public School Adult Education Program for over 20 years, She was an Instruction and Supervisor of Student Teacher at Wheelock College. She was an Author/Reviewer Laidlaw Mathematics Program Red Book, Blue Book, and Yellow Book, 1978. In 1984 she was a Teacher Consultant for Laidlaw Brothers, Using Mathematics Program – Levels K-2 1984. She was an Author for Houghton Mifflin, The Mathematics Experience, Grade 1, 1992.
1964 Knoxville College, B.A.
