Lisa Cline
Accountability, Safety, and Change for Educational Excellence for Every Student
Designing A School System That Cares About Each Student And Plans For Their Success.
Continue to tackle Learning Loss
Continue working on closing the gap between all students and raise students' performance in reading, math, and science. Lisa will continue to work toward empowering teachers to teach the North Carolina Standards using creative methods that best meets the needs of the child.
Apply the proper resources for each student to ensure post-high school success.
A one-size-fits-all approach is not effective in CMS. Lisa will continue to support programs, ensuring students graduate and are employed, enrolled, or enlisted in the next phase of their lives.
Continue to improve the educational experience by supporting the relationships between students, parents, and school staff.
Lisa will continue to build positive relationships between parents and schools by involving parents in their children’s schools. She will continue bringing community outreach programs to schools to support the social and emotional learning of students.
Create a physically and emotionally safe learning environment.
Lisa will continue to work towards providing a safer learning environment for students. She continues to advocate for security associates at the elementary schools.
Lisa Cline graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Secondary Education and History. She earned a Master’s Degree in School Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Lisa taught in middle and high schools for 10 years before moving to Charlotte with her family in 1990. Upon arriving, she joined Water Oak School within Atrium Mental Health. She then launched her career in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System, teaching at both Smith and Cochrane Junior High Schools before being tapped to participate in the new middle school model at Smith.
Lisa has been a leader throughout her 39-year career in a wide range of teaching and leadership positions within CMS. These positions include Lead Teacher of the Smith Academy of Foreign Languages, Lead Teacher for the District Social Studies Middle School Curriculum Department, Middle Years Program International Baccalaureate (MYPIB), Coordinator at the Marie G. Davis School, and Assistant Principal at Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology and West Mecklenburg and Ardrey Kell High Schools.
After retiring in 2019, Lisa remained involved in her community, volunteering for causes such as saving the Olde Providence Park. During the pandemic, she taught multiple K-12 learning pods. This experience allowed her to see the problems caused by online learning, which have led to catastrophic learning loss across our educational systems and inspired her to run for the Charlotte Mecklenburg School Board in 2022. Lisa is currently serving her first term and would be honored to earn your vote on November 4th.