About Marty Dutcher

Marty Dutcher has over 30 years of experience in the preschool, childcare and parenting world. He began his teaching career in a small preschool program in northwest Washington, DC.  As he became a lead teacher, then co-director, he stayed in the classroom as well, designing learning environments with the children in an open-structured setting, observing and learning from both the children and their parents.

After 12 years with the preschool, Marty founded and directed a small project-based learning program for 5 to 8 year olds, and in 1985 he joined a group of Washington educators in designing and operating a new educational childcare company.  As this company expanded, Marty hired and trained staff; developed educational curricula for the various age groups (which also included computer centers, after school clubs and a children's TV studio); and helped develop and lead parent workshops.  This company expanded into five other Maryland and northern Virginia communities by 1996.

In 2002 Marty designed a new and unique parenting course known as "Beyond Good Parenting."  It includes valuable distinctions he did not find in any other parenting and child development workshops or trainings.  In 2006 he founded Parenting for Partnership and is now completing a book on parenting subtitled The Art & Science of Learning, Context, and Partnership.

Marty has been a father and a husband since 1981, and he and his wife Carolyn have raised two wonderful daughters, ages 23 and 30.  Carolyn, a now-retired Certified Nurse Midwife, has assisted hundreds of mothers deliver their babies and was a co-founder of Takoma Women's Health Center in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Marty's goal is to show us how we, as parents, can, concurrently, increase our value, success, creativity, and playfulness in our parenting experience every day and set up our children to excel in or out of school and in any area of life they desire.