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Michael D. McCartney

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Mike McCartney taught English and History for almost twenty years, working mostly with gifted and talented students. Mike received his BA from Moravian University, his MA in English Literature from Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English, and he has studied as an independent scholar at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Fantasy. During his formal teaching career, he served as Chair of English and Performing Arts at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, one of the top public schools in America. While there, he was a Semifinalist for Maine State Teacher of the Year and a frequent guest speaker around Maine, including addressing pre-service teachers at the University of Maine. He has be ...more

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