Gerardo_Lopez_CV

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

2012- December 2016

1993- 1997 1993 –1996

1991 –1992 1989 –1991 1987 –1989

Doctor of Education Degree Leadership in Equity Education Program (LEEP)

Administrative Services Credential

Master’s in Arts degree and Supervision

Bilingual Teaching Credential Bachelor’s in Arts - History Associate’s in Arts degree

University of California at Berkeley

San Jose State University

San Jose State University Administration

San Jose State University San Jose State University San Jose City College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Fall 2016 – Present

Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 Fall 2000 – Spring 2015 Fall 2000 – Spring 2016 Fall 2000 – Spring 2005

May and June 2015

August and November 2006 April and May 2001

Fall 2000 – December 2000

Fall 1998 – Spring 1999

Coordinator, Early Childhood Education and Parent Engagement Milpitas Unified School District

Principal in the Alternative Education Department, Santa Clara County Office of Education

Program Manager, Migrant Education Program Region I, Santa Clara Office of Education

Adjunct Faculty at National Hispanic University – Early Childhood Education and Child Development

Adjunct Faculty at Mission College – Early Childhood Education and Child Development

Interim Program Director, Migrant Education Program Region I, Santa Clara Office of Education

Principal, Miller and Slonaker Elementary Alum Rock Union School District

Bilingual Coordinator,

Alum Rock Union School District

GERRY LOPEZ

7098 Via Ramada

San Jose, CA 95139 Cell/Home Phone – (408) 839-3531 Office Phone – (408) E-mail: gclmailbox@sbcglobal.net

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CREDENTIALS AND CERTIFICATES

California Administrative Services Credential

California Multiple Subject, K-12 Bilingual Credential – Spanish Spanish Language Proficiency Certificate, San Jose State University,

Bilingual Education Department

Empowerment Skills for Family Workers/Family Development Course Certificate

-Cornell University

Family and Youth Worker Trainer Certificate – National Non-Profit Agency

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION;

Screened, interviewed, hired and supervised certificated and classified positions for numerous programs in over fourteen districts, including Milpitas, over the last nineteen years

Interviewed and offered recommendations for hiring of applicants to fill teacher positions at Miller Elementary School

Recruited, interviewed and offered recommendation for hiring of applicants to fill teacher positions at Slonaker Elementary School

Oversaw and evaluated the services of a staff of forty-seven certificated and classified personnel at Miller Elementary School

Oversaw and evaluated the services of a staff of sixty-four certificated and classified personnel at Slonaker Elementary School

Recruited, screened, and assigned 250 certificated and classified staff to fill positions for the 1999-2000 Alum Rock summer school program

Established highly effective working relationships with the Alum Rock Educators Association (AREA) to address certificated personnel performance issues

Established highly effective working relationships with the California School Employees Association (CSEA) to address classified personnel performance issues

Interviewed and hired seven preschool teachers to fill position in Migrant preschool site-based and home-based programs

Interviewed and hired or offered guidance in the hiring of nineteen Community Liaison/Recruiters in Alameda County districts

Coordinated the recruitment training of twenty-five Community Liaison/Recruiters and have ushered twenty-one of them into full state certification

Trained twenty-five Community Liaison/Recruiters in the areas of data gathering, service

linkage to families, linkage to site, district and community resources, and Identification and Recruitment goal maintenance

Evaluated or offered observations on the evaluation of twenty-five Community Liaison/Recruiters Provided Empowerment Skills for Family Workers workshops to twenty-six Community

Liaison/Recruiters which will eventually result in their certification as Family Development

Workers from Cornell University and the accrual of college units

Coordinated the enrollment into and completion of the Family Development Course for

four Community Liaisons/Recruiters at colleges in their community

Guided fourteen districts into observance of all Coordinated Compliance Review/Categorical

Program Monitoring stipulations

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MANAGEMENT OF FINANCES;

Managed Budget for MUSD CDC programs

Managed the Opportunity Youth Academy budget $1.5 million dollars

Managed budget for Miller Elementary School

Managed budget for Slonaker Elementary School

Wrote district budgets for fourteen districts, in four counties, establishing Migrant District

Service Agreement (DSA) for the past eleven years totaling a combined $2.5 million

dollars or more each year

Wrote, expended, and closed fourteen district summer school budgets each of the past eleven

years

Revised, amended and closed fourteen budgets at the end of the DSA cycle for the past

Eleven years

Formatted carryover budgets for twenty-four districts and the Region observing all California

Office of Education Migrant Office expenditure criteria

Maximized use of funds through conscientious redirecting of unspent funds

Closed the aforementioned budgets with an expenditure rate of between 90% and 95%

for the past eleven years

Established highly effective working relationship with fifteen fiscal officers in their

respective districts to better spend funds, revise budgets, and redirect unspent funds Established highly effective working relationships with fifteen Human Resources/Personnel

Departments to insure that proper salaries and benefits were being charged to the

program

Carried out fiscal audits with fifteen districts to ascertain proper expenditure of funds Adhered to all established timelines to insure that all assigned budgets were closed on time

and proper documentation submitted to the California Department of Education Migrant Office

CURRICULAR/INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP;

Have worked for the last nineteen years to identify, implement and assess the effectiveness of curriculum programs at the site, district and county level.

Have vast experience in instructional best practices including those associates with ELL populations, independent studies and online learning.

Have provided 15 years of college level, undergraduate and graduate instruction in the areas of Early Childhood Education and Child Development

Versed in Trauma Informed Care and instruction and its effects on student learning Served as Balanced Literacy trainer at Miller Elementary School for three years Served as Program Quality Review consultant for a number of San Jose districts Chaired the Content/Performance Standards committee for the Vertical Slice project Chaired the Bilingual Education Standards committee for the Vertical Slice project and

coordinated the writing of a kindergarten through twelfth grade Bilingual Education

programmatic model

Taught as an invited instructor on Balanced Literacy at San Jose State University Presented as keynote speaker and several times as featured speaker at the Santa Clara

County Office of Education Annual Best Practices Conference

Established highly effective working relationships with fourteen Curriculum and Instruction/Student

Services Departments to best link district services to their migrant student populations Presented to numerous site staffs, principal meetings, and classified personnel meetings

on the structure and best way to implement the Migrant Education Program at their sites or

districts

Coordinated with the Santa Clara Office of Education and fourteen districts to observe all

No Child Left Behind and Federal Program Monitoring criteria

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ESTABLISHMENT OF STUDENTS SERVICES;

Speak and write Spanish Fluently

Have selected and demonstrated best practices in curriculum use and assessment of preschool students

Have conducted hundreds of hours of preschool instruction observations

Established ELD block instruction at Miller Elementary

Directed the maintenance of an Success For All delivery model at Slonaker Elementary School Served as Student Study Team coordinator at Miller Elementary School for three years

Served as testing coordinator at Miller Elementary School for three years

Coordinated “Cesar Chavez Day March” in 1995, which involved ten schools and over 3000

Kindergarten through eighth grade students

Carried out preschool audits to ascertain those students enrolled in Migrant, district, state,

or federally funded education programs in twelve districts with the intent of gauging progress for those students already enrolled in educational programs and linking those not yet enrolled into placements for which they qualify

Carried out Kindergarten through 3rd grade reading audits to ascertain students not

reading at standard at in twelve districts with the intent of linking them to district or Migrant intervention opportunities

Carried out 4th through 8th grade middle level audits to ascertain those students not yet having achieved re-designation status in twelve districts and linking them to district or Migrant English language acquisition opportunities

Carried out 9th through 12th grade transcript audits in twelve districts to ascertain

those students not on course to graduate and link them to existing credit accrual opportunities

Carried out Out of School Youth profiles in twelve districts to ascertain their educational and personal needs and link them to existing community services

Established or guided district administrators in the establishment of summer school programs at Fourteen districts to best meet the needs of migrant students

Guided three district administrators in the establishment of Migrant Education/Even Start programs in their districts

Coordinated with Regional Health Coordinator to provide dental services and Vision

Services to students in need of these services but with no family or district resources to meet these needs

Coordinated with districts to ensure that al least 90% of migrant students are included in the California Standards Test (CST) yearly administration

SERVICES TO PARENTS;

Speak and write Spanish Fluently

Have provided numerous parent workshops to establish preschool home learning environments over the last fifteen years

Guided the undertaking of required School Site Council meetings at Miller and Slonaker

Elementary Schools

Guided fourteen districts into compliance regarding the establishment and documentation of

Migrant Parent Advisory Committees

Presented at numerous Parent Advisory Committee meetings over the past four years Coordinated the Migrant Regional Advisory Committee for the 2003-2004 school year along with

the regional parent coordinator

Keynoted two county-wide Migrant family conferences

Coordinated the funding and delivery of numerous parent workshop series which resulted

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in the instruction of thousands of parents over the last eleven years and their greater

informed involvement in their children’s education

Accompanied hundreds of parents to the Migrant State and National conferences over the

past eleven years

Carried out or participated in eleven yearly Regional Advisory Committee retreats to plan and

coordinate parent involvement in Region I

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES/ PRESENTATIONS

2005 – Pres. 2015

2011

2010-2011 2005-2012 2006

2004-2006 2004-2011 2003

2003

2002 2003–205 2002

2002-2007 2000–2005 1997–2005 1996-1998

1995–1998 1995–1998 1995-2011

Adjunct Professor National Hispanic University – ECE/CD Department

Presented at the National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education Conference. New Orleans

Presented at the National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education Conference. New Orleans

Speed of Trust trainer at the Santa Clara County Office of Education

Board Member of Achiever School – a private institution in San Jose

Co-Chair of Parent Programs for the National Association of Bilingual Educators (NABE)

Featured Speaker at the California State Employees Association State Conference Empowerment Skills for Family Workers workshop series trainer

Keynote Speaker at the Alameda Migrant Family Conference

Keynote speaker at the San Francisco Unified Family Conference

Committee Member for the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE) Conference

Featured Speaker at the Santa Clara County Office of Education

5th through 10th Annual Best Practices Conference

Keynote Speaker at the Santa Clara County Office of Education

5th Annual Best Practices Conference

Featured Speaker at the California State Employees Association State Conference Adjunct Professor Mission College – Child Development Department

Parent Institute for Quality Education Trainer

Educational Coordinator for a San Jose based non-profit organization serving more than 800 people

Youth staff developer for a national non-profit organization

Director of youth and adult camps for a California non-profit organization Presented to thousands of parents in dozens of schools in at least 30

districts and County Offices of Education on various topics

HONORS and RECOGNITIONS

2014

2003 2000

1992

1989

1988 & ’89 1988 & ’89

Recognized before the SCCOE Board of Education for organizing and conducting the very successful 4th Annual Migrant Education State Tournament which involved over 500 participants from over 36 California-wide districts

Migrant Region 13 (San Jose Unified School District) Alumni of the year Highlighted in the June 17th, 2000 edition of the San Jose Mercury Newspaper as the Principal of Miller Elementary, which had attained more than a 120 percentile point growth, across grades 2nd through 5th grade in the April/May 2000 SAT 9 administration

Graduated with Distinction from San Jose State University

Graduated with honors from San Jose City College

Recipient of the National Hispanic Foundation Achievement Scholarship Recipient of the San Jose G.I. Forum Merit Scholarship