Candidate for
Board Member; Mount Diablo Unified School District

After serving eight years in the US Army including three years as Senior NCO of a logistics detachment in the Rapid Deployment Force, I began my college education in the field of Engineering. My deployment to a third world country led me to the direction of improving infrastructure as a method of helping combat poverty. While attending school, I volunteered at a local elementary school one day a week as my commitment to community service. After a year of school, I decided that I could have an immediate impact in education and changed my major to History. I returned to the district from which I graduated High School and where my father worked as a custodian, MDUSD.

I worked for twenty-three years to counteract the slow dismantling of public education. I believe we are now at a point where we can change direction back toward the positive. I want to be part of that change.

July 2009- June 2012

Vice President/ President Mt Diablo Education Association (MDEA) , Mt Diablo Unified School District. (MDUSD)

Full time release teacher served one year as VP and two years as President of local teacher union of 1700 teachers. Daily interactions with employees and administrators including Superintendent, Department heads and Board Members. Served on district Committees as Teacher Representative.

July 2007-June 2009 and July 1999-June 2002

Peer Coach, MDUSD

Full time release master teacher responsible for mentoring new teachers. Also participating in the assistance and review of teachers identified as unsatisfactory. (PAR Program) Evaluated classroom teachers according to California Standards for the Teaching Profession. Trained in adult learning styles to mentor teachers so as to allow individual and sustainable growth as educators. Coordination with administrators at fifteen MDUSD comprehensive and alternative secondary schools.

July 2002-June 2007 and July 1997-June 1999

Teacher College Park High School, MDUSD

Five years as Economics and AP Economics teacher. Two years as teacher of World History. Served as Department Chairperson and coordinated WASC Accreditation review resulting in maximum six year accreditation period. Organized and coordinated with Administrator, Peer, Parent and Student Committees in School self-review process.

July 1989-June 1997

Teacher El Dorado Middle School, MDUSD

Taught US History and served as Department Chairperson. Helped organize grade level teams of teachers and students known as villages and was team leader for three years in addition to my department and teaching duties. Sponsored after school clubs and chaperoned students on Washington DC trip during Spring Break. Was selected as US History Teacher of the year by Lafayette DAR.