Dr. Cynthia Zurchin
Dr. Cynthia R. Zurchin is the assistant superintendent of the Moon Area School District in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Previously, she spent twenty-five years in the Pittsburgh public schools where she worked as an elementary and high school principal and administrator on special assignment training new principals, assisting low achieving schools, and integrating arts education programs. She also served as a staff development specialist, middle school assistant principal, and a middle and high school teacher.
Cindy received her doctorate degree in educational leadership from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has studied leadership at the Covey Leadership Institute in Utah and has taught in Brisbane, Australia.
Her article, "The Whale Done! School," was published in the March/April 2001 National Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principal Magazine.
Cindy regularly speaks and coaches on the Whale Done! theme for national and local conferences and institutes. She is a board member for Yoga in Schools and the Education Partnership. She also serves as president of Phi Delta Kappa and as a participant in Leadership Pittsburgh. Earlier in her career she founder Cynthia's School of Dance & Music to teach the love of dance and music to students.
Cindy received her doctorate degree in educational leadership from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has studied leadership at the Covey Leadership Institute in Utah and has taught in Brisbane, Australia.
Her article, "The Whale Done! School," was published in the March/April 2001 National Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principal Magazine.
Cindy regularly speaks and coaches on the Whale Done! theme for national and local conferences and institutes. She is a board member for Yoga in Schools and the Education Partnership. She also serves as president of Phi Delta Kappa and as a participant in Leadership Pittsburgh. Earlier in her career she founder Cynthia's School of Dance & Music to teach the love of dance and music to students.
Category: Leadership, Ethics, Trust, Management Fundamentals
Interviews with Dr. Cynthia Zurchin»See all
How the Whale Done! method turned this trouble school around. Jim Ballard and Cindy Zurchin join Jim Blasingame to report how she, the teachers and the students subscribed to the Whale Done! method and turned their school around in 90 days.
Many thought this school was too far gone to save? Jim Ballard and Cindy Zurchin join Jim Blasingame to reveal how one principal used the Whale Done! method of re-enforcing good behavior as a way to turn around a dysfunctional school.
