Mr. Pete Callas is the California State Director of Career Technical Education and the Director over the Career and College Transition Division (CCTD) at the California Department of Education (CDE).

Pete joined the CDE in 2012 as an Education Programs Consultant for the Charter Schools Division and has held a series of increasingly responsible positions at CDE. Prior to becoming the CCTD Director, he served as an Educational Administrator in the Assessment Development and Administration Division and over the High School Innovations and Initiatives Office within CCTD. During his tenure in CCTD, Pete has successfully added Career Technical Education programs at the middle school level and youth apprenticeship programs for high school students. In between principal tenures, he went to the private sector and was a Human Resources manager at Hewlett Packard.

Pete also served as a high school and middle school principal for over 20 years, along with teaching at the middle school and community college levels for a number of years. Pete holds a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from California State University Sacramento, a Master’s degree in curriculum, and a Master’s in Business Administration from University of California, Davis.

Prior to Pete’s career in education, Pete played professional baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies Organization, along with four years of college baseball at CSU, Northridge.

Dr. Moore has worked in education for twenty-two years, beginning as a high school English teacher, county office administrator, and site and district leader. Her current role is Assistant Superintendent in Roseville Joint Union High School District. In addition to her work within the school district, she serves as the President of the California Coalition of Early and Middle Colleges, the California coalition dedicated to dual enrollment. She has presented widely on the topics of educational technology, including at state and national conferences, and has been an international presenter on the topic of digital badges and student assessment.

Dr. LeBaron Woodyard is currently the Dean of Academic Affairs in the Educational Services and Support Division for the Chancellor’s Office, California Community Colleges. He is responsible for programs in Tutoring. Rising Scholars Network, Puente, Umoja, Dual Enrollment, African American Male Education Network and Development (A2MEND), Mathematics Education and Science Achievement (MESA), Middle College High School, Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Transfer Initiative, and cybersecurity collaborative initiative. He has fifty-three years of experience in higher education. He has served in the California State University system, the Claremont Colleges, and the California Community Colleges system. Forty-three years have been in the California Community Colleges system, ten years at Laney College in Oakland, California and thirty-three years in the Chancellor’s Office.

Dean Woodyard was the initiator of the first Systemwide Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program (TTIP) that has facilitated technology innovation in the California Community Colleges since 1996. He helped construct the foundation of the California Virtual Campus (CVC) and led the distance education program in the California Community Colleges for twenty-five years. He has also served as the administrator for credit and noncredit curriculum, libraries and learning resources, classified professional development, Flex Calendar, faculty minimum qualifications, and the Fund for Instructional Improvement among others.

Dean Woodyard completed his undergraduate education at the California State University, Los Angeles in Political Science and his PhD in Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focused on how to close the retention gap in distance education when compared to traditional face-to-face instruction. His research has led to the development of the “Echo Gap Effect” concept to explain the impact of the “Echo Gap” on student access in the California Community College System. His research greatly benefits the California Community College System by saving State apportionment dollars as the State employs distance education as a significant form of instructional delivery in public higher education.