Cynthia K. (Cindi)
Timmons

Also completed coursework at Texas Women’s University, University of Texas at Dallas, and Southern Methodist University.

Master Teaching Program Oxford University, England (Summer 2001)

Certification: English (9-12), Social Studies - Composite, History (1-8, 9-12), Speech (1-8, 9-12), Elementary Education (1-8), Early Childhood (PK-K)

• Hall of Fame, Texas Forensic Association, 2006
• Texas PTSA Honorary Lifetime Member, 2006
• HEB Excellence in Education, RegionalWinner,2006
• Golden Apple Award – Outstanding Achievement in and Dedication to Debate, 2005
• GCISD Distinguished Teacher - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Magna cum laude graduate
• 4.0 - Master’s program
• Dean’s List every semester
• Texas Humanities Teacher of the Year - honoree
• Trinity University clinical faculty member
• Outstanding District Employee in three school districts
• 18 state speech and debate championships
• 8 national speech and debate championships
• Outstanding debate coach awards
• GCISD Council of PTAs Dr. Jim Thompson Exemplary Achievement Award in Education - 2007
• Executive board member - state and national associations  

I have taught for 28 years in three different school districts. My first 10 years were spent in Plano, where I attended high school. I began teaching sixth grade and then spent the next nine years teaching gifted education, English, speech, theatre, history, and debate in grades 6-12. Then I moved to San Antonio where I taught for five years in North East ISD. While there, I initiated the World Studies program and served as the Director of Forensics. When I moved back to the metroplex, I began teaching at Grapevine HS where I continued with the World Studies program and served as the co-director of debate. I was excited to be a part of the opening of Colleyville Heritage High School 12 years ago and established our nationally recognized debate program while continuing to teach World Studies. I resigned my position as Director of Debate three years ago in order to spend more time with my family and concentrate on my World Studies program.

My teaching philosophy has been shaped by three beliefs. The first is that I believe all of my students are people who deserve my respect and consideration. The second is that I believe that my job is to help each student find his way through his own strengths, much as the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo believed that he was merely releasing a statue from its marble encasement. Finally, since the birth of my own child and the adoption of a wonderful little boy, I have come to view my students as “other people’s babies,” a view which has influenced the way I see them. The precious people I work with in my classroom are the most important people in the world to someone - I feel a great responsibility to treat them with great care. An adage I adopted long ago continues to motivate me today, “A teacher is a person who meets a child where he is at, looks at where he has been, and then takes him forward.” I am a devout believer in lifelong learning and my motto is “cultural literacy.” For me, teaching is a calling.

I am married to the best debate coach in the nation, Aaron Timmons (he teaches at Greenhill School) and I am the mother of the two most wonderful boys in the world: Michael, who will be in the tenth grade this year, and Joshua, who is five. My free time (which is not much as the working mother of a teenager and preschooler) is spent reading, traveling, and enjoying my neighborhood. I am on the Board of Directors of my HOA. I even like working in my yard! I enjoy creative writing as well. My faith is very important to me and I am constantly working to balance the competing claims on my time while keeping my priorities straight. Keep me in your prayers!