Candidate for
Board Member; San Juan Unified School District

August 2012 Michael D. McKibbin 7231 Hazel Avenue Orangevale, CA 95662 Education Purdue University, B.A. Humanities, 1965 Teachers College, Columbia University

M.A. Childhood Education, 1972
M.Ed. International Education, 1973
Ed. D. International Educational Development, 1974

Work Experience Five days after I graduated from Purdue I entered the Peace Corps. After three months of training at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, I was assigned to work in Rural Community Development in Tonk, Rajasthan, India. My primary responsibility was to teach villagers how to raise chickens. I also started a marketing cooperative, and built and operated a feed mill. In my off hours I was active in working with Indian youth. After two years of Peace Corps service, I was hired by Elkhart (Indiana) Community Schools to teach high school social studies which I did for three years.

I was admitted to graduate school at Columbia University in International Educational Development, taking courses at both Teachers College and the School of International Affairs. In addition to completing my coursework, I was in instructor in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program and a teacher in the Laboratory School. I was also inducted as an International Fellow in the School of International Affairs. I completed the requirements for the three degrees, listed above, in 1973 and defended my dissertation in 1974.

In fall 1973 I was hired to teach in the Multicultural Education Development Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. This program prepared teachers to work in inner city, migrant, and other high poverty schools. I taught social studies methods, curriculum, and school law and was the director of evaluation and the field placement coordinator.

In 1975 I was hired to direct a federal Teacher Corps project at San Jose State University. This was a joint venture with Alum Rock School District and Far West Regional Laboratory. I also completed several projects for national Teacher Corps which took me to twenty states to conduct teacher training. When the project ended in 1979, I become the Senior Researcher and Associate Director of a small educational research laboratory where we completed a series of research studies including three for the California Department of Education. I was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and taught at DeAnza Community College. I worked briefly at San Francisco State University before I was hired by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (then called the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing) in 1982.

I served as a Consultant in Educational Research and Evaluation and later as an Administrator with responsibilities in teacher development. Over the years I was the lead consultant for more than forty evaluations/ accreditations of California Educator Preparation/ Certification Programs, conducted more than 20 research studies, helped develop more than a dozen sets of certification standards, and implemented multiple pieces of legislation including all aspects of alternative certification and internships for more than twenty years. During my tenure at CTC I provided administrative and fiscal oversight for alternative certification programs that prepared 60,000 California teachers and state funding of more than two hundred million dollars. I also assisted in the development and implementation of the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program and the development of the California Teacher Performance Assessment system. I also served as the administrator for several federal projects including the Troops to Teachers Program and the Transition to Teaching Grant that allowed San Diego and Oakland schools to reduce the teachers serving on Emergency Permits to virtually zero during the course of the grant.

My last project before I retired was the redesign of special education preparation programs, credential authorizations, and standards. Working with a team of special education teachers, administrators and professors, we developed new authorizations, credential standards and performance assessments for Special Education Credentials. Throughout my career in education, I was the author of more than sixty books, chapters, policy papers and articles in refereed journals on teacher preparation, curriculum, staff development, school improvement, and alternative certification. A complete list and samples can be provided on request.

I have served on seven national advisory boards and foundations including: Kappa Delta Pi Editorial Board; National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification Standards Board; and Teach for America Research and Evaluation Advisory Board. I was a charter member of the National Association for Alternative Certification, served on its board for many years and was the association's president for two years. Currently I serve on the following boards: Haberman Educational Foundation, Houston, TX; the National Center for Alternative Certification, Washington D.C.; and the National Center to Improve Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Personnel for Children with Disabilities, Alexandria, VA.

Locally I have served as a member of the School Site Council at both Green Oaks Elementary and Orangevale Open K-8 Schools. I have been a member of the San Juan Unified School District Curriculum and Standards Committee for the past six years and recently joined the district's Strategic Planning group. For the past several years I have been a parent volunteer at the school where my son has attended. Among the activities that I have completed are grading papers, field trip driver, tutoring kids struggling in English and Math, creative writing teacher, and guest speaker on topics such as village life in India. When my son was in 6th grade, I arranged for a letter exchange between the sixth standard students at an English medium school in Tonk, Rajasthan India, and the sixth grade students of Orangevale Open K-8. For the past two years I provided weekly instruction to third graders in the Second Step Program, a violence prevention curriculum.