Your Team 4 Better Schools - Joyce Hooks

Joyce Hooks

Dedicated to Accelerated Academic Achievement
Committed to safe and orderly schools
Focused on financial responsibility to taxpayers

Joyce Hooks has deep roots in our community and will bring the perspective of a dedicated grandmother with her grandchildren in our public school system.

Joyce Elaine (Smith) Hooks was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the only child born to working class parents, McKinley and Helen Smith. Joyce grew up in South Avondale and attended the following schools: South Avondale Elementary, Samuel Ach Junior High and Withrow High School. She earned an Associate in Science degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Xavier University.

Joyce Hooks began her thirty-three year career with Cincinnati Public Schools as a Civil Service employee. The Civil Service positions she held include the following: instructor assistant, junior typist, intermediate typist and preschool instructor. Her first certificated teaching position was at Aiken High School, where she taught Child Care Job Training in the Vocational Department.

After the vocational program at Aiken closed, she taught preschool at the following schools: Pleasant Hill Elementary, Hays Elementary, and Washington Park Elementary. Joyce was a consulting teacher in the Peer Assistance and Evaluation Program for a two-year term. She returned to the secondary level as a Career Based Intervention Teacher at Western Hills Traditional High School. Her final position, before retiring in 2007, was as a Field Representative for the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, Local 1520. Joyce currently works with the NID Housing Counseling Agency as a Foreclosure Intervention Counselor.

Joyce Hooks has had the unique experience of working in a variety of positions within the Cincinnati Public School District and she knows the system well. CPS is near and dear to her heart, and the success of the district will always be of extreme importance to her. Joyce will contribute seasoned knowledge and experience to the Cincinnati School Board as goals are set and operating strategies are developed. She has demonstrated leadership abilities as a classroom teacher, a consulting teacher, in the Peer Assistance and Evaluation Program, and as a Field Representative for Cincinnati Federation of Teachers.

In addition to teaching, Joyce Hooks is a certified mediator in Permanency Mediation, Truancy Mediation, and Custody and Visitation Mediation. Joyce is currently a Mortgage Foreclosure Intervention Counselor.

Her experience has prepared her to serve our community as a Cincinnati City School Board Member.

Joyce currently resides in North Avondale. Mrs. Hooks has been married to Derry L. Hooks II, for sixteen years. Mr. Hooks is a Cincinnati Private Police officer and Private Investigator. Mr. and Mrs. Hooks, their children, grandchildren all attended Cincinnati Public schools. Mrs. Hooks presently has grandchildren and great-grand children enrolled in Cincinnati Public Schools.

More Information:

Joyce's page at the League of Women Voters

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