MARY JO MADDA

 

 

 

Mary Jo Madda recently graduated from the Technology, Innovation, and Education master's program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Following her time at Northwestern University, Mary Jo moved into the world of education as a KIPP science teacher and grade level chair with Teach for America in Houston, TX, and later as a curriculum developer for a Catholic school in Los Angeles. During these years, Mary Jo discovered a passion for curriculum, educational technology, and closing the STEM achievement gap, particularly when she served as part of a panel for the L.A. Archdiocese to develop district-wide Common Core curriculum guides.​



Mary Jo has lead and taken part in several educational technology initiatives around Harvard and MIT. She worked with Professor Karen Brennan and the MIT Media Lab’s ScratchEd program to create on-line professional development for teachers to learn basic computer programming, known as the "Creative Computing On-line Workshop." Mary Jo also worked with a team of scientists and curriculum developers to create a media asset library to foster immersive science inquiry for Harvard’s mobile augmented reality STEM project, EcoMOBILE.



Mary Jo also served as an Education Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Harvard innovation lab, as well as a 2012-2013 resident at the i-lab. She co-founded a start-up seeking to create engaging