Cynthia Wilson, has been in North Carolina education for twenty-six years. She has a Masters from the University Of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to joining the Teacher Academy as a High Priority Fellow, she worked at Southern Middle School in Person County, North Carolina as a Media Specialist and Mentor. She has been a trainer with the North Carolina Teacher Academy since 1994 in several academy modules: Learning styles, Mindful Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Multiple Intelligences, and various areas of Technology. She received her National Certification in Teaching and Learning Styles from the Center for the Study of Learning and Teaching Styles locate at St. John's University in New York. She trained with Dr. Rita Dunn and Dr. Kenneth Dunn. She has also trained with Eric Jenson, Pat Wolfe, Alan Blankstein, Linda Hoyt, Susan Udelhofen, Daniel Golemam, David Lazear, Spencer Kagan, Roger and David Johnson, Michael Gelb, David Warlick, and Rich Allen.
Her committment to education was realized when in 1995 she received her National Board Certification in the area of Early Adolescent Generalist. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards was created in 1987 in direct response to the Carnegie Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century. The mission of the National Board is to establish high rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do. In October 1997, she was appointed to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Media Standards Committee. She piloted the newly developed renewal process for National Board Certified Teachers and recently participated in the renewal process. She just recently renewed her National Board Certification through 2015.
Most recent projects include working with NC State in the Middle Data Project doing live video conferencing from middle grade classrooms to NC State Teacher candidates. The project ''s goal is to improve new teacher training by sharing techniques used in exemplary classrooms. She recently was selected by the NEA to go to Jamaica to share technology training at the Internationl Technology Conference in Montego Bay. At the state level she was an Einsenhower Fellow reviewing materials for InfoTech and Evalutech and maintaining a listserve for Library Media National Board Candidates. Other projects include working with the WebQuests Project in the Teacher area of NC WiseOwl creating a WebQuest Pilot on Edgar Allan Poe and on the Virtual Quilt project with Midlink Magazine an internationally acclaimed internet magazine for middle school students while serving as media coordinator and webmaster for a 6-8 middle school (Southern Middle School) in North Central Piedmont of North Carolina. She is a contributor to Teacher Connect and was selected to be a part of NC Teaching Treasures on the site of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and one of the first Technology Educators selected by DPI. She worked with the Valvano Foundation and the North Carolina Middle School Association to create character development/healthful living curriculum for use in middle school to help prepare students for understanding and handling debilitating/life threatening disease.
As part of her committment to education she serves as an adjunct instructor at Piedmont Community College teaching Introduction to Computers: CIS 110, Introduction to the Internet,and FrontPage both on campus and using BlackBoard technology for online classes.
She supports the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards by serving as monitor of the national Librarymedia listserve and a BlackBoard montior for high priority candidates in North Carolina.
As a life long educator she supports the growth of the profession and is a past LEA President and member of the North Carolina Association of Educators, the Association for Educational Communications & Technology,
and webmaster and member ofAlpha Delta Kappa.
On a personal note, she served as Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity in her home county and Chair of Democratic Women. She is archive director with the Millenium Project and a member of St(s)Mary and Edward in Roxboro, N.C.
