Marybeth Flachbart Email & Phone Number

Marybeth has deep experience supporting education leaders at the national, state, and local levels in literacy and school improvement. Examples include her work with the National Governors Association, Early Childhood Task Force, Reading First National Technical Assistance Center, the Idaho governor’s Task Force for Literacy, the Montana Comprehensive School Plan, Montana Literacy Plan, leadership teams, support of the North Slope Borough School District’s literacy plan, the Northwest Literacy Cooperative, Houston Independent School District, Teachers Make the Difference initiative, and the Houston Blueprint for Literacy. Marybeth served as the director of Northwest Comprehensive Center and the state coordinator for Idaho. Her capacity-building work focuses on increasing organizational capacity to meet the needs of all learners. Before joining Education Northwest, she served as president and CEO of Neuhaus Education Center in Houston, Texas, a nonprofit think tank for literacy solutions. Marybeth served as deputy superintendent at ISDE under two politically diverse administrations, taught at Boise State University, and directed Idaho’s Reading First Program. She has a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Boise State University and a master’s degree in special education from Fairfield University, and she is a certified academic language therapist and dyslexia specialist.

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  Senior Consultant

  Education Northwest

  Jun 2015 - Present - Northwestern United States

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  Ed.D. Boise State University, M.Ed. Fairfield University, B.A. Marymount Manhattan College

  Curriculum & Instruction, Special Education