Educational Leadership Beyond the University

I have been fortunate in my ability to contribute to the educational community. Through past and present endeavors, I have tried to make the learning environments better for our children. I have worked to increase the support of our teachers. Below are some of the organizations and efforts that I am part of today.

The Preuss School at UC San Diego

Executive Board Member/Chair of the Academic Advisory Committee

The Preuss School UC San Diego Board of Directors serve as the primary advisors to the School’s Administrative Team. Directors are responsible for promoting the School’s vision and mission; plan for the future; set sound policy; model professionalism; oversee finances, evaluation and other key operational aspects; and build community relationships. Directors are committed to the School’s mission, and passionate about ensuring the sustainability of its education model through philanthropic support.

The Academic Advisory reviews the overall education program of the School with the Principal and Executive Director, and makes policy recommendations to the Board and EVC as needed. The committee monitors progress on the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) or other educational and teacher development goals and provides guidance on the review of application, admissions, and School assessment procedures.

San Diego Unified School District

Partner in the Teacher Residency Program

A guiding focus of the Teacher Residency Program is to mentor and grow our own teachers from within the SDUSD community.

To this end, the partnership seeks to create a dedicated SDUSD teacher pipeline within the existing UC San Diego Teacher Education Program cohort model. In this model, pre-service teachers establish cohorts that collaborate and learn together from their undergraduate preliminary coursework through the credential/M.Ed. experience. The Teach for San Diego Teacher Residency program would establish a dedicated cohort within a cohort experience. SDUSD Teacher Residents would collaborate together in their field experiences as future teachers of the district while maintaining their connection to the well-established UC San Diego Teacher Education cohort, becoming integral within both and gaining from the strengths of both.

Sweetwater Union High School District

Advisory Board Member for Teacher Residency Program

The SUHSD Residency Program for Transformation in STEM will address a number of important needs, beginning with those currently limiting student and teacher opportunity in California’s largest secondary school district. Most important, our district seeks to strengthen, diversify and expand the pathway quality future educators take in order to become responsible for the education of our students. We won’t wait for a “teacher shortage” crisis. Instead, we will build on regional strengths to create conditions that result in the highest quality teachers for our diverse students. Working with partners described below, the SUHSD will develop a Residency Program that serves 30 pre-service STEM teachers in its first year and expand from there.

The Sweetwater Union High School District will partner with San Diego State University’s Department of Dual Language and English Learner English Learner Education (SDSU DLE) and the University of California, San Diego’s department of Education Studies (UCSD EDS) to strengthen teacher pipeline efforts in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with special consideration for the value of bilingual educators. This unique team of diverse and qualified educators provides our district - and grant recipients throughout our state - with the opportunity to develop and monitor coordinated efforts to recruit, train, support, retain and grow exactly the kinds of content-expert, culturally-informed teachers our diverse students deserve.

San Diego Unified School District

Advisory Board for the Enhanced Mathematics Network

It is the vision of San Diego Enhanced Mathematics that everyone in San Diego Unified sees themselves as mathematicians who are knowledgeable, can apply their thinking when making sense of the world, and can communicate their reasoning as active critical thinkers and problem solvers.

With this vision, the San Diego Unified School District’s mathematics program is designed to engage students in rigorous and relevant mathematics to solve problems associated with personal, civic, and professional contexts. Mathematics classrooms are places where students engage in problem solving, productive discourse, and write about their unique process, application, and perspective with a variety of audiences.

San Diego Mesa Community College

Member, Teacher Education Transfer Committee

The Mesa Teacher Education Pathways Partnership team would like to thank you for partnering with us to build and strengthen our pipeline of supporting an increasingly diverse population of students in preparing and entering the teaching profession. In addition to pathways that begin in our partner K-12 schools, continue at Mesa, and matriculate to our four-year institution partners, we have been preparing curriculum for a certificate in Online Teaching and Learning. This group brings together teacher educators from many of the San Diego region 4-year universities to engage with the leaders at SDMCC on topics that include course design, articulation, and transfer pathway guidance for students.