Curriculum Director
Waller Independent School District

Curriculum and Instruction

Mrs. Kanyo was named the Director of Waller ISD Curriculum and Instruction in the summer of 2002.

Mrs. Kanyo, who lives in the northeastern part of Waller County within the Waller school district, came to Waller ISD with 39 years of experience in teaching, administration, curriculum writing, and teacher training.

She served as an elementary and middle school teacher and principal as well as alternative school principal in Alton, Illinois. And she taught at Cy-Fair ISD Labay Junior High School and at Cypress Creek, Cy-Fair, Langham Creek, and Cypress Falls High Schools. She also served as a department chairperson, team leader, and Coordinator of the Secondary Teacher Program at Cy-Fair.

At the post-secondary level, Mrs. Kanyo taught at Boston College and Fisher College in Massachusetts, Glendale Community College in Arizona, and Tomball College in Tomball, Texas. Before coming to Waller ISD, she was employed as a statewide trainer in curriculum and content areas at the Region IV Educational Service Center in Houston.

An experienced curriculum writer and instructor, Mrs. Kanyo has also served as Senior Correlations Editor with Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, editing textbook content and supervising other textbook work. And as an Administrator for the Master Reading Teaching Program, a Specialist in English Language Arts, Reading, and Communications Applications, and a trainer for a number of educational programs, she has a wealth of experience in teaching new teachers, seasoned teachers, mentors, and administrators in a wide variety of curriculum areas.

Mrs. Kanyo has a Bachelors of Education degree in Secondary and Elementary Education Design and Assessment from Leeds University in England, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Southern Illinois University, an MS degree in Instruction, Reading, and Assessment from Texas A&M University, and a Certificate of Education Specialization in Adult Education and Curriculum Development from Tel Aviv University in Israel. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M.