Mary Pearce

About Mary Pearce

Jump Start Press is a boutique development house that provides content for publishers of…

Experience

1. Owner

   Jump Start Press

   Jan 1998 — Present

   Jump Start Press is a boutique development house that provides content for publishers of preK–8 educational materials. With offices in the metropolitan New York area and a pool of professional freelancers and consultants around the country, Jump Start is uniquely flexible to meet the demands of diverse clients and projects.Mary has spent her entire professional life as an educator. She started her career as a preschool and primary grade teacher at St. Ann’s, a private school for the gifted in New York City. In 1986 Mary entered educational publishing. She worked in–house at Scholastic, first on Scholastic News and then on educational continuity programs for reading/language arts and science. She was also editorial director for Children’s Television Workshop’s classroom continuity programs and at the Galef Institute in Los Angeles, where she directed the editorial development of a model preK–6 social studies program based on Howard Gardener’s work on multiple intelligences. Mary founded Jump Start Press in 1995. But, when the opportunity arose to more thoroughly learn the packaging business, Mary put Jump Start Press on hold to accept a position as Executive Vice President at Mega–Books, a children’s packager/development house. There she was responsible for all areas of client relations and sales, product development, project supervision, budgets, and operations. In early 1998 Mary devoted herself solely to growing Jump Start Press. Since then, she has established an impressive roster of educational publishing clients by focusing on what she and her staff do best: materials in reading/language arts, science, social studies, and math, for grades preK-8.

Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Executive Education

• Saint Mary's College

  BA

• St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN

  Bachelor's Degree

• New York University

  Graduate Work

Skills

• Freelance Writing
• Published Author
• Teacher Training
• Staff Development
• Publishing
• Curriculum Development
• Academic Publishing
• Content Strategy
• Literature
• Content Management
• Creative Writing
• Content Development
• Instructional Design
• Project Management
• Books
• Textbooks
• Editing
• Classroom
• Copywriting
• E-Learning
• Writing
• Proposal Writing
• Science
• Fiction
• History
• Copy Editing
• K-12
• Non-Fiction
• Proofreading
• Esl
• Public Speaking
• Curriculum Design
• Teaching
• Online Publishing
• Web Content
• Television
• Technical Writing
• Leadership
• Newsletters
• Blogging