RESUME

CYNOVIA HALL
2911 PAIGE STREET
HOUSTON, TX 77004
CYNOVIAHALL@YAHOO.COM
(8320 671-4365

OBJECTIVE
To obtain an assistant principal position
WHY?
To ensure all students are equipped with the skills to
achieve at their highest capacity intellectually and
socially
To produce thoughtful, disciplined and courageous
students who accept challenges and exceed
expectations
To challenge teachers and students to set academic
and professional goals and ensure they have the
skills, access and opportunities to achieve them

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
KEY COMPONENTS

Students assist in their learning by constructing knowledge with the

teacher acting as a guide or facilitator.

Teachers are skilled and work to perfect their craft by engaging in

professional development and implementing best practices.

All parties, parents, students, and staff are held to high standards and
execute a No Excuses mentality.

Students engage in projects and experiments to extend learning.

Students participate in rigorous instruction and writing extends to all

subjects.

Students demonstrate strong character evident through work ethic and

social interactions.

Students explore the options of different extra-curricular activities and

develop social skills, self confidence and boost self esteem.

All students are accepted and treated as individuals while working on

their level to be individually successful.

Students are reading

Students, teachers and parents believe school is a great place to be.

EXPERIENCE

KENNEDY ELEMENTARY
Decreased Tier III
referrals by 65%
Increased on-task
reading by 69%
Increased
completion of
homework by 75%
Increased teachers
plan to return by
40%

DEMOCRACY PREP
78% of students met mid-year
goals
Designed behavior plans
resulting in 75% less send outs
Chaired ELA committee and
designed strategic writing rubric
resulting in students growing
from 0 to 64% reaching grade
level writing goal.
Designed reteach curriculum
resulting in 84% growth on math
reteach standards.

WOODSON K-8 LEADERSHIP

ACADEMY

Increased High Frequency Word Evaluation

passing rate by 20%
Averaged 1.6 years of Reading growth
Created exemplar lesson plans for Houston
Independent School Districts elementary
curriculum department

TEACH FOR AMERICA

Transitional Team Leader
helping incoming corps
members transition into
Houston
Served as faculty advisor for
incoming corps members
during their summer
internship
Led Diversity and
Inclusiveness sessions on
Race, Class and Privilege

EDUCATION

CERTIFICATIONS
Principalship
Principalship
G/T
G/T K-5
K-5

Neuhaus
Neuhaus

EC-6/ESL
EC-6/ESL

PROJECT
PROJECT
READ
READ

CERTIFICATIONS
CERTIFICATIONS

Guided
Guided
Reading
Reading

DRA
DRA
STEP
STEP

PRESENTATIONS

Components
Components
of
of an
an Effective
Effective
Lesson
Lesson
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Teach Like
Like aa
Champion
Champion

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Community
Community
Engagement
Engagement
Event
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Day in
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New
New Teacher
Teacher
Orientation
Orientation
Presenter
Presenter

AWARDS
Dean of Instruction Academic
Scholarship
Instructional Excellence Award
Teach for America Sue Lehmann
Regional Nominee
Teacher of the Year Finalist
Teacher Feature

THE ENERGY BUS

BOOK REVIEW
The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon is a book that lists ten
rules necessary to live the best life possible. It is
applicable to different career paths, lifestyles, ages and
genders. The Energy Bus takes the reader on a journey
that starts off as a physical bus. The driver, Joy, finds it
her mission to drive the bus with energy and energize
everyone who rides along. As the rider travels with Joy
she teaches them how to be the driver of their own
metaphoric Energy Bus. The book takes us through the
journey of Georges life and how the Energy Bus
allowed him to turn around his failing marriage, job and
family.

TEACH LIKE A
CHAMPION
BOOK REVIEW
In the book, Teach Like a Champion
author Doug Lemov provides
instructional and management
strategies to enhance the quality of
teaching provided to students. These
strategies are best practices and can
be applied to any grade. Unique to this
text, is provided a DVD that shows
many of the strategies in practice
being used by classroom teachers. The
clips also range in grade level
reaffirming the fact that these
strategies are widely applicable.

HOW CHILDREN
SUCCEED BOOK
REVIEW
This book explicitly explains the
hardships that many of our inner city
students face. It discusses the issues
that must be tackled in order for all
students to succeed. Many schools are
failing because they do not understand
how to get positive results. The book
suggests that this begins with learning
and teaching students how to fail, build
character, succeed and think. By
understanding and teaching students
these skills, we are not simply teaching
students how to cooperate, but to make
healthy decisions independently,
allowing them to be successful and
contributing citizens on their own.

REFERENCES

Diana
Lum

Principal, Kennedy Elementary

(713) 696-2686
dlum@houstonisd.org

Sean
Reidy

Executive Director/Founder, Democracy Prep

Congress Heights
(202) 561-0860
Sean.reidy@democracyprep.org

Monique
Wright

Director of Instructional Leadership, District of

Columbia Public Schools
(301) 704-0970
Monique.wright@gmail.com