Women in the News
Teaching and caring for kids has been a passion for Cheri Hall as far back as she can remember. At age five, Cheri would be found gathering her neighborhood friends to play school. As a teenager she babysat and tutored the local children, making enough money to pay for her own trip to Hawaii with her friends. As a young mother, she started working for a large tutoring center called Applied Scholastics™ in Los Angeles where she became the top tutor in the center working her way up rapidly becoming the center’s Director. Cheri dedicated herself to working with students of all ages, helping them to handle their study difficulties as well as their difficulties with communication and getting along with peers. Helping students learn their math basics was a favorite of Cherie’s, in fact so much so that she developed an entire step by step program on how to resolve student’s difficulties in mathematics. That program is still used very successfully today.
In the late 1980s Cheri ran a small school for the children in her area, before moving on to work at Narconon, a drug rehabilitation center in Oklahoma, where she again used her teaching skills to get the clients there through courses that would help them handle life without drugs. She also worked with the illiterate clients to teach them to read and write. Cheri is a teacher no matter what else she is doing!
Now Cheri is the Director of Mojave Academy, an Applied Scholastics™ private boarding school located in the mountains of western New Mexico, utilizing the educational materials of humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. When the school was first established in 2001, Cheri, along with other executives, decided to dedicate the school as a non-profit educational organization. Creating the non-profit status for Mojave Academy insures its effective methods will be available for children well into the future.
Cheri makes the students feel important and allows them to make decisions regarding their studies and be an active part in the direction of their education. It is obvious just looking at her in the classroom that the students love to work with her. One student in her class sums it up in one sentence. “Cheri is a friend to us, not just a teacher.”
She is dedicated to helping children have fun in school, and to revitalizing their joy in learning. This keeps them eagerly learning about life, instead of wishing they were never in school. Cheri Hall works long hours to make the school what it needs to be in order to cater to those children who do not succeed within the traditional school systems. At Mojave Academy you will find Cheri working one-on-one with children that need extra attention. Her tireless efforts have proven successful and one by one the students who go through her program find study something they can enjoy. Upon completion of the Mojave program students typically go back home to their local schools, this time with success and pride.
Visit Mojave Academy and you’ll find Cheri moving through her busy schedule with her daughter and granddaughters nearby; all live, work and study at Mojave Academy in the mountains western New Mexico.
“I find myself very lucky at this school. Not only do I get to do what I love the most, teach children, but I also get to teach my grandchildren, starting at age one, and see them every day growing to love school the way all children should. Here they get to see that learning is life, that everything you do can become a learning experience and that school is somewhere that kids can’t wait to be. They both make great students and I am thrilled to be able to bring this on to the next generation.” – Cheri Hall
