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