Virtual Advisor

Teri Marsicek, PhD

Teri Marsicek, PhD

Theresa Boehm Marsicek is the director of advanced licensure programs and associate professor of education at Alverno College, where she has taught since 2013. A passionate literacy educator, she founded the Milwaukee Literacy Cooperative in 2017.

Before coming to Alverno, Marsicek was a reading interventionist at E. W. Luther Elementary in South Milwaukee. She also spent ten years at Messmer Catholic Schools, teaching four-year-old kindergarten and serving as a reading specialist. Additionally, she spent a year teaching second and third grade English in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Marsicek earned her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, her Master of Arts in Reading Education from Alverno College, and her doctorate in Literacy from St. John’s University in New York City. She is a member of the Wisconsin State Reading Association and Reading Recovery Council of North America.