Amy Mascott

Amy Mascott is the creator of teachmama.com, where, since 2008, she has helped families cultivate meaningful connections and build bridges between home and school. With 1200+ posts and 400+ free downloadable resources, teachmama.com reaches over 5 million viewers each month due to a wide reach across Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

A Reading Specialist, writer, speaker, and influencer, Amy’s reflections on literacy and parenting have been featured on dozens of online and print publications, including Scholastic Instructor, Scholastic Parents, PBS Parents, PBS Digital Studios, readwritethink.org, Huffington Post, HMH’s The Teacher’s Corner and more. For years, she co-anchored the Scholastic Parents Raise A Reader blog with her pal Allison McDonald of No Time for Flashcards, and together they have a written two books about reading, both published by Scholastic: Raising a Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips for Helping Your Child Develop A Lifelong Love of Reading (Scholastic, 2016) and Setting the Stage for Rock-Star Readers: Helping Young Children Develop A Lifelong Love of Reading (Scholastic, 2019).

Amy is just as active offline as she is online. You can find her either cheering for her kids on the soccer sidelines, biting her nails during swim and dive meets, or buzzing around the ‘hood as a cheer mom. Married to an elementary school principal, Amy resides in the DC Metro with her crazy-cool 17, 15, and 13-year-old, a dog, and way too many books.