The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is an award that highlights the national priority to provide all our citizenry with a world-class science and mathematics education. I am greatly honored and deeply humbled to be considered for this prestigious teaching award, and I am proud to be recognized as an educator who has contributed to inspiring young people to appreciate and excel at mathematics and science.

Mark Greenman Marblehead, MA | 7-12, Science, 2009

The official biography below was current at the time of the award.

Mark Greenman has worked at Marblehead High School for 30 years, serving as a physics teacher, teacher mentor, computer director, mathematics director, and science director. He has worked with more than 400 teachers to provide laboratory-based institutes through grants won from the State of Massachusetts. Mark has published articles on teaching methodology, teacher preparation, computer education, electrodynamics, and electronics, and he shares best practices and his enthusiasm for teaching and learning through presentations and workshops at national and regional conferences. Mark brings to his teaching a passion for science and a philosophy that can be succinctly expressed as "nature speaks." His teaching style is that of a facilitator and arbiter of intellectual debate. His class is filled with high expectations for all, lively and respectful dialogue, and humor. Mark has a B.A. in Physics from Hofstra University and an M.S. in Physics from Syracuse University. He has been inducted into the physics national honor society (Sigma Pi Sigma) and the mathematics national honor society (Kappa Mu Epsilon), and he is a recipient of the Massachusetts Educational Technology Advisory Council's Path Finder award, the North Shore Science Supervisors' Exemplary Teacher award, and the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship.

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