Yvette Garcia

Yvette Garcia is an educator with over 37 years of experience.  She began her career in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in 1984 as a kindergarten teacher, and later went on to teach 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.  Yvette then relocated to Bakersfield, CA where she worked with at-risk students.  After 3 years in California, she returned to teach in the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD community for an additional 17 years before pursuing her degree in school administration.

Yvette has held leadership positions as an instructional specialist, assistant principal and principal.  As principal, she served on Title I campuses that were 80-90% economically disadvantaged, had mobility rates up to 25% and ELL populations that were steadily on the rise. In 2010, Yvette was named Cy-Fair ISD’s Elementary School Principal of the Year.  She led her school to earn six TEA Distinction Designations, three years in a row at the elementary level, and took a middle school from being a monitored school to earning six out of seven TEA Distinction Designations in a year.  Yvette has been a presenter at the International Center for Leadership in Education’s Model Schools Conference as a Model School, presented at the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators Conference as a Demonstration School, as well as been a presenter at Cypress-Fairbanks Rigor, Relevance and Relationships (RRR) Conference; where she has shared her experiences in collaboratively cultivating atmospheres where student success thrives academically, behaviorally and socially.

Yvette is now working as an educational consultant supporting campuses. She also spends time assisting her parents and traveling to the Texas Hill Country to visit her grandchildren.