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Carmen Cuprill-Young Ed. D. Candidate
Mrs. Cuprill-Young has a B. A. in Bilingual
/ ESL Education, a Masters in Education, and a Mid-Management Principal Certification.
She is on the final year of completing her Doctoral Degree in Education.
For the past five years she has been the Executive Director of Intern
Teachers ACP located in Houston, Texas. She has forty-three years of
teaching experience, thirty three of those in Texas. She has had the
opportunity to attend the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, the
University of Panama, Panama Canal Zone College, Trinity University in San
Antonio, the University of Texas, and the University of Houston Clear Lake,
and now Walden University. She has taught in Southside ISD, Seguin ISD,
Northeast ISD, Austin ISD, Houston ISD, and presently in the Pasadena ISD.
She has received numerous recognitions, The Panama Canal Zone Public
Service Award and the Pasadena Rotary Club Award for community volunteer
services. Other such honors include the Walzem Elementary teacher of the
year in Northeast ISD and the Rusk Elementary teacher of the year in
Houston ISD. Lastly, she was bestowed the Southside ISD and the Pasadena
ISD Teacher of the year.
For nine
years she recruited and guided professionals and teachers to be part of the
Texas teacher work force. Candidates interested in teaching careers have
come to her from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Russia, Japan, Peru, Chile, Venezuela,
and beyond. Her most prized accomplishment of all is she has been married
for forty-six years to her high school sweetheart Leon B. Young III, who
retired and became an ROTC instructor. She has dedicated her life to the
people around her; starting at the age of nine she was a volunteer at an
asylum that was two blocks from her home in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. There
she read and prayed the rosary with senior citizens as well as read and
played games with the orphan children at the center.
In content
area instruction Mrs. Cuprill-Young was selected by NASA to guide fifty
teachers in the promotion of Science in the bilingual classrooms. As well,
she has been responsible for training parents, teachers, and students with
the writing process of the 4th grade Texas Assessment Knowledge &
Skills (TAKS) Test. In the capacity of advocate for education, she has been
a guest speaker at Northland College in Wisconsin, promoting National
Hispanic Month and Bilingual Education. As a union representative for the
Houston Federation of Teachers, she promoted teachers rights and
actually represented teachers cases through TEA with great success.
Raising her
six children was a challenge, especially her son Wilfred who was born deaf.
As a result of her life experience became very much involved in lobbying
for special education students and parents rights. These days she
keeps busy by continuing pursuits in education and traveling extensively
with her Raising her six children was a challenge, especially her son Wilfred
who was born deaf. As a result of her life experience became very much
involved in lobbying for special education students and parents
Raising her six children was a challenge, especially her son Wilfred who
was born deaf. As a result of her life experience became very much involved
in lobbying for special education students and parents rights.
These days she keeps busy by continuing pursuits in education and traveling
extensively with her six grandchildren in order to monitor their educational
progress. Her final lifes goal is to be retired and become a volunteer
teacher in a third world country with her husband Leon. The country
selected is Panama where they lived for over six years.
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