Carol Marie Marcotte, Ph.D.

Dr. Carol Marcotte completed her doctorate in School Administration & Supervision at Berne University International Graduate School in St. Kitts, West Indies. Her primary specialty areas include educational leadership and literacy instruction.

One of Carol’s most recent accomplishments is serving as the UNE Rotaract Advisor. The students selected a project called the ARK—International Center for the Treatment of Mental Illness and Drug Addiction Among Young People. The student-led group was guided by Carol in receiving a District 7780 Grant for $6,500, “ARK of Hope: Advancing Youth Mental Wellness in Poland and Beyond,” to provide educational materials for the ARK facility. During September 2026, Carol will visit Poland and tour the ARK facility in Wojciechów, Poland.

During the Spring of 2024, Carol traveled to Poland with the Rotary Poland Outreach Team. She was one of six selected to take part in this humanitarian trip. The group visited Warsaw, Krakow, Zacopane, and Lublin, Poland, visiting different projects that focused on mental health initiatives. Rotary District 7780 will be supporting one of these initiatives in the future.

Carol is the Co-Chair of the Rotary District 7780 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, as well as a member of the UNE College of Arts and Sciences Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She is also the Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for Rotary District 7780. Most recently, Carol was nominated for the International Service Above Self Award.

Carol believes in innovative teaching in both online and face-to-face classes. Her online graduate courses include an additional element of weekly informational videos about the course content, which extends and enhances learning for her students.

Another project that Carol is involved in as part of the Rising Stars group is sex human trafficking. Most recently, because of a District 7780 grant, she was able to purchase personal items that filled comfort bags for 100 human sex-trafficked survivors and 100 children of the survivors. These bags were donated to Courage Lives/St. Andre Home, where Director Carey Nason distributed the bags at safe houses.

Carol is currently Past President of the Rotary Club of Saco Bay Sunset and recently wrote and received a District 7780 Disaster Relief Grant for $25,000. Her Club sponsored Project Bryukhovichi, where they fixed the roof of the convent in Ukraine, where over 30 young mothers and children are housed who have lost their loved ones in the war. Carol went to Poland and Ukraine during the summer of 2023 to meet her Rotary colleagues and bring supplies to a special needs group from Ukraine. She has been selected as one of six Rotarians who are on the Poland Outreach Committee who are going to Poland Spring 2024 for humanitarian work.

Carol has been a member of the Saco Bay Sunset Rotary Club (SBSR) since May 2019. Some of the “Service Above Self” humanitarian efforts that Carol has been involved in include Crutches for Africa, the Epilepsy Foundation Clothing Drive, Recovery Committee, District 7780 District Grant Chair and World Map painting at Loranger Memorial School playground. She is the committee leader for the Rising Stars group. They are focusing on eradicating sex human trafficking.

Carol has been very involved in humanitarian efforts with St. Maarten to support the students and schools on the island after the Hurricane Irma devastation, which resulted in donating over 1,400 pounds of school supplies.

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Carol donated literature to the Santo Domingo Schools in New Mexico. In April 2019, she provided students with 20 new literature books for their classrooms. During July 2019, Carol traveled to Buffalo, Wyoming, and donated children’s literature to the Johnson County Family Crisis Center, as well as bringing children’s books to the Player Development program in St. Maarten. Most recently, she has visited New Mexico again and provided more children’s literature and educational activities to the Kewa Pueblo and Santo Domingo Schools. Las Vegas, New Mexico, is one of her favorite towns.

Carol achieved the ‘Women’s History Month” in 2022

Carol had a manuscript published:

Marcotte, C. (2017). Effective mentoring characteristics and online training. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 14(5), 73–86. http://www.itdl.org/Journal/May_17/May17.pdf

Carol has also been involved in efforts to provide free dental screenings for children in Old Orchard Beach. https://www.une.edu/news/2019/students-and-faculty-provide-free-dental-screenings-children-old-orchard-beach

As a member of Maine’s School for Excellent Incentive Grant Educator Preparation and Employment P-K Leadership Council, she leads the effort to strengthen and enhance the partnerships between educator preparation programs and K-12 educators for the purpose of creating a seamless continuum of high-quality educators from preparation to veteran status. Part of this work includes refining the Professional Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) system.

Carol is a previous School Board Chair of Regional School Unit 23—Old Orchard Beach, ME. Her passion for supporting students is based on educational, physical, and mental supports. Through collaborative efforts, incoming Pre-K and K students were able to obtain free dental screening.

In 2013, Carol was selected as a Teacher Scholar at the University of New England. Her project was designing orientation modules for administrative mentors. The online modules were designed to deliver high-quality training to mentors as they support administrative principal and superintendent intern candidates with ongoing supervision, guidance, and evaluation. In 2014, Carol presented her project, “Research Based Course Design for Supervisors of Aspiring School Administrators: Effective Mentor Characteristics,” at a NERA poster session in Connecticut and at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.

Carol became a founding Board Member of Learning Forward New England (formerly New England Staff Development Council) in 2009. Carol has been President and Past President of Learning Forward New England. 

Among her many passions is literacy. She was able to travel to Australia and New Zealand when a Principal at Margaret Chase Smith School in Sanford, ME, and bring back rich literacy instruction to her staff. Part of her educational trip involved observing teachers in Australian schools conducting Reading Recovery® lessons and Running Records with their students. Carol brought these Marie Clay practices back to her staff as they were implementing the same practices in their school.

Carol is a voracious learner and has been a member of the Maine Curriculum Leaders’ Association since it began. In 2010, the Maine Curriculum Leaders Association acknowledged Carol as Curriculum Leader of the Year in Maine. In addition, Carol was presented with the Friends of UNE Award twice. Among her numerous honors, First Lady Barbara Bush presented Carol with the Maine Family Literacy Grant in 2006 and 2008.

In her role as Director of Curriculum and Instruction in U#7 (Saco/Dayton, ME), Carol led her staff and administrators through school reform. One of the accomplishments in school reform was working with the Maine Department of Education staff with Continuous Improvement Priority Schools in the district. This work led to increased student achievement. Some of the aspects to this growth were building capacity by coaching teacher leaders, designing data teams to support student assessment and achievement, leading professional development initiatives, implementing the CCSS, and managing Title I, II, III, IV, and V grants. Carol worked with Dr. Susan Hillman of the University of New England to receive a funded grant of $80,000 to implement math reform in her schools. She guided the Math Curriculum Design Team through the research of best practices in math and a five-year implementation process as she worked side by side with teacher leaders, building principals, and University of New England staff.

As principal, Carol was an instructional leader, starting Professional Learning Communities before they became part of today’s school reform. Supporting students through supporting teachers was her focus. Many teacher leaders were developed under Carol’s expertise and guidance in both the schools where she was principal. She was nominated for Principal of the Year by her RiverView Community staff in South Gardiner, Maine.

Dr. Marcotte is a past president of Maine Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and has served on several critical committees for the international curriculum development organization ASCD. One of her accomplishments was serving as a delegate for the Ambassador-to-Ambassador Education program, working with Vietnam and Cambodia educational agencies.

Carol’s education career started as a regular classroom and special education teacher. Multi-age and looping schedules were part of her classroom expertise, as well as being a resource room teacher. Being passionate about school improvement and cultivating teacher leaders, she was a principal for eight years.

Her first role at the University of New England was as an adjunct faculty member, beginning in 2001. During this time, she brought her knowledge and experience in school reform and school improvement into the online program. After retiring from public education as the Assistant Superintendent in charge of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, she transitioned to the University of New England full time as the Coordinator of Online Programs.

Her most recent roles have included teaching in the College of Professional Studies and the School of Education, as well as serving as a University Supervisor to undergraduate student teachers in the Education Department. This role provides opportunities to visit K-12 schools and engage with staff and administrators while observing and supporting current best practices in education.