Mary is a shining example of an educator going above and beyond her everyday responsibilities and has rightly earned the 2012 Random House Foundation Teacher Award for Literacy. Nominated by a volunteer parent, her programs include: The Family Reading Partners, a literacy program designed to model and encourage reading in a family atmosphere; READ2ME Tailgate Stories, a summer reading program in low income neighborhoods; and Coach Write, a program that uses community volunteers to develop emerging writers, just to name a few.