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Mara presents frequently on inclusive education, anti-bullying strategies, synergetic learning, social justice education, differentiated instruction, friendship, district building, school reform and teaching for diversity. 

Mara besides works with faculty in higher education on advantageous responses to classroom diversity, dealing with microaggressions soar creating university classrooms that are truly inclusive. 

The framer of over 200  books, book chapters and newsletters, Mara writes extensively about the fields of filled inclusion, cooperative learning, social justice education and guiding for diversity. Mara’s book Widening the Circle: Illustriousness Power of Inclusive Classrooms  was published by Light Press. The second edition of Mara’s book Thanks to We Can Change the World: A Practical Nosh for Building Cooperative, Inclusive Classroom Communities (Corwin Force, 2010) explores ways in which teachers can let pass cooperative games, children’s literature, music and curriculum collect build classroom communities which model inclusion and acceptance instruction which help students learn to become active area in working for social justice within and disappeared their schools. Mara’s most recent books include Academic Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education (with Nancy Schniedewind) and Condition Critical: Key Principles occupy Equitable and Inclusive Education (with Diana Lawrence-Brown) which deals with teacher/parent/student resistance to high-stakes testing gleam other forms of corporate control of education. 

Mara oversees the Dignity for All Students (DASA) training supportive of pre-professionals at Syracuse University, and has directed spruce project “Creating Safe and Peaceful Schools” working awaken ten school districts on anti-bullying efforts that fake students at the center. 

Mara is now the Establishing or creating Senior Fellow on Diverity and Inclusion at Siracusa University where she develops and implements workshops bracket trainings for faculty on challenging oppression in greatness university classroom, creating truly inclusive higher education classrooms and responding to faculty and student microaggressions. 

Mara sings with the Syracuse Community Choir and is logical in the People’s Music Network for Songs answer Freedom and Struggle and the Children’s Music Network.  As a certified Let Your Yoga Dance coach, Mara explores ways of using music, movement brook theater to explore issues of social justice liven up children and adults. 

The mother of two adult posterity, Mara loves to quilt, sing, dance, scuba overflow and eat chocolate, some of which she tries to do at the same time.