Dr. Mary K. Tedrow taught English in the high school classroom beginning in 1978, ending her K-12 career as the Porterfield Endowed English Chair at John Handley High School in 2016. She was named the Frederick County Teacher of the Year in 2000. Tedrow currently teaches and directs the Shenandoah Valley Writing Project at Shenandoah University in Winchester VA. Tedrow is also a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Write, Think, Learn: Tapping the Power of Daily Student Writing Across Content Areas.