Mary is responsible for delivering quality programs for Cambridge College students seeking a Master of Education Degree, online health and physical education certificates, and a certificate for additional training in health education.
She is also a health education consultant and helps many districts transform their curriculum from content based to skills based.
As an author, Mary wrote Skills-Based Health Education, second edition. The third edition of Skills-Based Health Education is under production by Routledge publishers. Other books include Teaching SEL in Health Education, and co-authored Infusing Self-Advocacy in Physical Education and Health Education, a special book that includes chapters from professionals from across the country and Europe.
Mary received the MAHPERD Joseph McKenney Award in 2020. It is the highest award given to a member of MAHPERD. In 2021, SHAPE America inducted Mary into the SHAPE America Hall of Fame, a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mary is the Vice-President of Higher Education for MAHPERD and works with the Executive Director, Maria Melchionda to present “Unpacking the Massachusetts Health and Physical Education Framework” professional development to districts across the state.
Mary also served on the committee that revised the National Health Education Standards and the committee that revised the Massachusetts Health and Physical Education Curriculum Framework. Mary is a current member of the Boston Public Schools sub-committee for Health Education, a member of the Massachusetts Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, The National Academy of Health and Physical Literacy, SHAPE America, ASCD, and ASHA.