State Consultant
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina
Stephanie Cyrus began her education career in the early 1990’s teaching Physics, Chemistry, and Biology and coaching high school children. Since that time, she has served children in many capacities. Stephanie has been school administrator at all three levels, a Gifted Program Coordinator at the district level, as well as, a Human Resources Director. In 2015, Stephanie joined the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) as the State Consultant for Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) and Advanced Programming. In this role, Stephanie works alongside public school district and charter school leaders, as well as, other stakeholders to effectively implement Local AIG plans and programs, and support various other policy and legislation initiatives impacting gifted and advanced learners across the state, including Credit by Demonstrated Mastery and the Advanced Math Course enrollment legislation.
Stephanie is also fortunate and blessed to be the mom of two beautiful children – Myles and Karmen; a rising junior at Wake Forest University and a rising seventh grader respectively. Stephanie’s educational philosophy since her days in the classroom has been and continues to be, “If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; If you teach a man how to fish; he will eat for a lifetime.”
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Saturday, November 19, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM