Owner/Director, Academic Pathways, SpiderSmart of Rockville, and Spidersmart of Kensington
Biography
Mary Koles is 100% dedicated to her students. She has demonstrated this time and again, first as a high school teacher in Nashville and Philadelphia, then as an academic consultant in Seoul, South Korea. Her work in recent years has been helping the acclaimed SpiderSmart learning centers grow. It's fair to say that Mary's life for the last 10+ years has been about teaching and her students above all.
Mary opened SpiderSmart of Bethesda in 2009, then later moved to Rockville and continued operations there. She has run SpiderSmart of Rockville since 2011, then SpiderSmart of Kensington since 2015. In 2016, Mary officially added an online dimension: her personal and professional editing company, Ink200. The latest extension of her academic business family has been Academic Pathways, opened in fall of 2017.