2016 in Review

Jesse Ortiz

Yolo County Superintendent of Schools

2016 in Review

 

Program

• Support of CTE program at Cesar Chavez Community School in Manufacturing and Product Design in partnership with Marquez Designs
• Support of Cesar Chavez Community School Arts
• Yolo County Construction Program, partnership with Probation Department
• DA/Sheriff/YCOE Positive Attendance Program
• Classified Staff future teacher grant program
• Developed Pk-12 Intern Teacher Initiative
• Literacy Program specialist position
• Information Technology Network Specialist to support increased capacity
• Head Start Lincoln STEM program
• Expanded Head Start Classrooms onto WUSD Westfield Elementary School and added a third classroom at the Charter site
• Greengate Olympics
•  Youth Advocates programs at CCCS Woodland and West Sacramento Campuses
• Applied for Initial WASC accreditation for Dan Jacob
• Successful Head Start Governance Review
• First CSTEM Summer Camp at Douglass Middle School
• EPIC Charter audit review – successful first year

 

Leadership

• Member of CA County Superintendents Educational Services Association legislative committee
• Greengate Playground completion
• Information Technology Migration
• Process for move of Support Operation Service Department to Santa Anita Ct.
• Principal for a Day for WJUSD and Woodland Chamber – February 3
• P-20 Collaborative Meeting – April 5 and October 4
• Coordination of Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Consortium $748,000
• Member of Adult Education Block Grant Consortium
• Coordination of CTE TEACH regional grant $27,450 and CTE Distance Learning Regional Grant $20,000.
• Coordination of Regional Work Based Learning support
• CSEA Scholarship support
• YCOE employee’s classification and compensation study
• Charter School Tours
• Provided LCAP District Support meetings
• Judges/Probation tutoring partnership
• District Attorney/Sheriff positive school attendance partnership
• Yolo/Colusa/Sutter/Yuba County Office of Education four county consortium partnership
• Align Capital Region partnership
• Member of CA School Boards Association Charter School Committee
• Chinese Delegation presentation of special education preschool programs
• EAPLN CCEE Grant Award – state pilot
• Classified School Employee Grant award
• Awarded CSPP Expansion grant to serve students with special needs
• Hired new principal for Alternative Education
• MOUs with Esparto, Winters and Colusa COE for IT services
• United Way Summer Preschool Camp partner
• Yolo Farm to Fork partnership
• Student Operations Service facility improvement
• Union negotiation completed for 2015-16
  • YEA, CESA and AFSCME

• Sponsorship of following forums/workshops:
  • FCMAT Presentation:  LCAP/LCFF- January 14
  • State of the State in California – January 22
  • African American Student Leadership Conference – February 6
  • Equity Summit: Cost of High School Dropouts to Yolo County – February 18, 2
  • Alternative Education – Youth Leadership Conference – March 2
  • Equity Summit: Social Determinants of Health – April 21
  • Teachers of Tomorrow – April 27
  • Kinders go to College WCC – May 13
  • Kinders go to College SCC – May 20
  • African American Kinsey Collection
  • Yolo County Elections Bash
  • STEM Middle School Girls Conference
  • Sanger School District 2-day Leadership Institute
  • Yolo County Superintendent Leadership Breakfast
  • Human Trafficking workshop in partnership District Attorney
  •  “Building a Resilient Yolo” Community Partner Initiative
  • 2016 California Global Education Summit –Cosponsor and Global Education Advisory Council and expert panel presentation for CTE
  • UC DAVIS C-STEM Conference keynote; awarded administrator of the year
  • State Leadership Development Institute for CTE leader’s presenter
  • First Summer CACTE Conference 
  • Implemented Educator Excellence Plan - CCSS Cadre provided yearlong training to YCOE alternative and special education educators for implementing Common Core Standards for Literacy

Community

• KVIE Literacy Parent Engagement Workshops awarded YCOE program of the year
• Continuation of YCOE social media presence
  • Marketing videos for website
• Woodland United Way Speaker March 3
• YCOE Participation in 5K Turkey Run for Food Bank
• Partnership with All Leaders Must Serve
• Partnership with Yolo County Election’s Office to support civic engagement