Marlene Moyer

Marlene Moyer

Marlene Moyer is a seventh-grade English teacher at South Lake Tahoe Middle School in South Lake Tahoe, California. She has taught for more than 20 years in Nevada and California. Currently, she is the English department curriculum leader and is also a mentor teacher.

Marlene was an integral part of her middle school’s leadership team that transitioned them to standards-based grading and designed student-friendly critical concepts for student scoring using Robert Marzano’s High Reliability Schools framework.

Since 2013, Marlene has presented at numerous conferences and workshops, including at the CTA Good Teaching Conference in Northern and Southern California, focusing on classroom management strategies that are the basis of her book Tools Not Rules. She has also presented a family engagement workshop at the Nevada Family Engagement Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a mathematics discourse workshop at the NCTM conference in Denver, Colorado.

As a member of the California Teachers Association, Marlene was awarded Walmart & Sam’s Club Local Teacher of the Year in 2007—and in 2010, she was recognized as teacher of the year by Minden Elementary School in Minden, Nevada.

Marlene earned her bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. She completed her fifth-year teaching credential and master’s degree in teaching from Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. Her master’s degree study involved best teaching practices for gifted and talented students.