Leadership, Program Development, and Professional Services
Mariale M. Hardiman, Ed.D. Recently appointed as the Assistant Dean of Urban School Partnerships at The Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Mariale Hardiman has also served as a principal, assistant principal, department chair, teacher, and professional development specialist for more than thirty years in the Baltimore City Public School System. As the principal of Roland Park Elementary/Middle School since 1993, Dr. Hardiman led the school to its designation as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Dr. Hardiman served as a mentor principal for the Baltimore City Public School System, helping to guide the system's leadership program and preparing new leaders for Baltimore's schools.

In addition to her career as an educator in Baltimore City, Dr. Hardiman has devised a teaching framework, The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model, which has received acclaim from national educators such as Dr. James Comer of Yale's School Development Program. After her 2001 publication, “Connecting Brain Research with Dimensions of Learning” in Education Leadership, Dr Hardiman published the book, Connecting Brain Research with Effective Teaching: the Brain-Targeted Teaching Model (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2003). She also published a chapter entitled “The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model: A Comprehensive Approach to Classroom Instruction and School Reform” in the Praeger Handbook of Learning and the Brain (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006).

The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model combines research from the neurological/cognitive sciences and education to present a research-based approach to effective teaching, including meaningful integration of the arts. Since her book's publication, Dr. Hardiman has lectured widely on the topic. Dr. Hardiman received her doctorate in education from the Johns Hopkins University. In her new role at Hopkins, Dr. Hardiman will continue to work with Baltimore's schools to build partnerships to enhance leadership capacity and support effective teaching and high levels of learning.

She may be reached at mmhardiman@jhu.edu or 410-516-6550.
Clare O'Malley Grizzard is the Arts Integration Specialist at a Baltimore City Elementary/Middle School. She is also an Independent consultant in museum education and has taught at the National Gallery of Art in the Department of Education for over 12 years. She was the Maryland State Elementary Art Educator of the Year, for 2004-2005. She is a member of The Maryland Art Educators Association Executive Board and has been a state and national conference presenter.

She is currently working on publications regarding brain research and arts integration as well as parent-child dialogue studies. She is also a practicing artist. Mrs. Grizzard has a Masters of Arts in Art Education from the Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as a BFA from Pratt Institute.

Mrs. Grizzard may be reached at cgrizzard@braintargetedteaching.org.
Georgia Kay Woerner is a teacher at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Miami, and her M.Ed. in secondary education from Towson University. She is certified by the state of Maryland to teach both English and biology, and taught middle school science for eight years before beginning her current role as an Instructional Support Teacher for the entire school. Miss Woerner received certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in 2003. She also coordinates the Gifted and Talented program for the school, and will complete a graduate certificate in Gifted Education from Johns Hopkins University in May 2006.

Miss Woerner may be reached at gwoerner@braintargetedteaching.org.
Ned Oldham is an educator, writer, and musician. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia in 1993, and since then has taught writing at several colleges, including University of Virginia and Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. As a writer and musician, he has published dozens of arts features for magazines including Baltimore and the Oxford American, and released seven albums with his band, The Anomoanon. He is currently the director of the Write Place, the writing center at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore.

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