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Mary L. Radnofsky, Ph.D. is president and CEO of The Socrates Institute. She has recently written a biotechnology curriculum for grades 7-12 for The Biotechnology Institute, and an early childhood curriculum in morals education for The Silver Grace Hope Foundation. Prior to that, she worked on K-12 astronomy curricula for a NASA grant related to the size of the Solar System and an unmanned mission to the planet Mercury. Previously, she designed educator workshops and instructional materials in interdisciplinary teaching for a K-6 project, "Vision and the Scientific Habit of Mind" conducted with international partners in France and Sweden.

Dr. Radnofsky has taught all grade levels, including college and adults around the world both in traditional face-to-face classrooms and in asynchronous online environments: in France, Liberia, Texas, Tennessee, New York, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. She has conducted workshops in several states and countries.

She earned her doctorate in Education and Human Development from Vanderbilt University, her Masters Degree in French Literature from the Université de Provence, France, and her Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of Houston.

Her publications are focused in the areas of interdisciplinary curriculum, foreign language learning, and qualitative research. She is teacher-certified, bilingual (French/English), and has spoken at numerous national and international conferences, on radio and on TV regarding interdisciplinary education and curricula.

Dr. Radnofsky has also served as Teacher Representative to the U.S. Department of State/NASA Aerospace Institute at the Johnson Space Center, and currently sits on the Board of Trustees for the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria.

Throughout her career, Dr. Radnofsky has worked with business leaders, elected officials, volunteers, parents and education associations to link all levels of classroom learning to real-world applications.

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