About
Nancy Gardner serves as a Staff Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College within the Professional and Graduate Education (PaGE) department, leveraging 32 years of classroom teaching experience and National Board Certified Teacher status to inform her academic practice.
Her educational credentials include:
- M.A. in English from University of North Carolina-Charlotte
- B.A. from Florida State University
Gardner specializes in teacher development frameworks, emphasizing educational personalization and project-based learning methodologies. Her work consistently centers on the principle of 'teaching students, not content,' translating into practical strategies for educator training. Professional contributions span publications in Kappan and Education Week, along with conference presentations at SREB’s High Schools That Work and NBPTS’s Teaching & Learning events.
She has provided expert consultancy for major educational initiatives including the Literacy Design Collaborative, EQuIP/Achieve peer review, Charlotte Danielson’s Teach to the Core advisory board, National Humanities Center, and ISKME’s OER Commons, demonstrating deep engagement with national curriculum standards and open educational resources.
