Cynthia Carrico-Rausch

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Everyone says that you never forget how to ride a bike, but no one reminds you that you once needed training wheels. After an 18 year hiatus from being a student, Cynde went back to school to earn an MSE, putting on her training wheels once again. Today, she holds a Master’s of Science in Education (MSE) and teaches Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication at the School of Communications and Multimedia while pursuing postgraduate work. Prior to returning to school, Cynde worked with diverse groups, including many with differing abilities and challenges. She is an accomplished adult educator with six years of mentoring educators; ten years of adult learning/corporate training and management; a Catholic Forensics League Debate Judge, and a budding storyteller. Cynde has an entrepreneurial spirit with the leadership skills of motivating, monitoring and managing student success. Driven to build students’ interests while encouraging higher order thinking, her retention rates are consistently high and absenteeism low. She addresses today’s diverse learning styles through a blended learning approach to teaching. Highly capable of building strong rapport among administration, faculty, and students, Cynde is considered personable and empathetic with a great sense of humor and the ability to bring out the best in her students. She tends to focus on the solution, not the obstacle; a habit developed from a decade of tutoring students who are eager, yet have moments of reluctance, anxiety, and frustration. As we turn toward a more diverse population with increased expectations, it is critical for educators to provide real-world relevance and reattach the training wheels that brought them into education originally.