MARY HAUSER is a senior consultant with Public Impact, assisting schools to extend the reach of excellent teachers through Opportunity Culture implementation. Before joining Public Impact, Dr. Hauser was a professional development associate at the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET) at Stanford University, where she focused on professional development for classroom teachers, instructional coaching, and leadership development for teacher-leaders and school administrators. Before that, she was an eighth-grade humanities teacher in Charlotte, N.C., and New York, N.Y. Dr. Hauser holds a B.A. in English and romance languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in teaching from Pace University, a master’s degree in leadership for educational change from Bank Street College of Education, and a Ph.D. in curriculum and teacher education from Stanford University.