Experienced Leadership for Roseville Schools and Community
Where I stand, in my own words
Governance shouldn’t be a mystery. These are the stories behind my priorities — what I’ve worked on, why it mattered, and where I want to take our schools next. Each one ties back to a decision our board actually made and the students it was made for.
Academic Excellence
Student Safety
Governance & Accountability
Great in the classroom, broken in the boardroom
I ran to protect a district that was already excelling — and discovered the part that needed the most work was how we governed ourselves.
Read the post →I didn’t learn governance on the job
Most people come to a school board wanting to help and learn how it all works along the way. I came at it from the other direction.
Read the post →Fiscal Responsibility
Transparency
Family & Community Engagement
We didn’t have to reinvent the wheel — or even buy new tires
The hardest family issues split other districts into lawsuits. We brought parents and teachers to the same table and got it right — together.
Read the post →We see you, and we’re ready
A military child changes schools six to nine times before graduation. Here’s how ours became some of the first in the region ready to catch them.
Read the post →What I’ve argued in print
California’s military children deserve schools that are ready for them
My case in the state’s capital paper, the Sacramento Bee: the Purple Star costs nothing and signals everything — and every California school should earn it.
Read the op-ed →A challenge to every school district in Placer County
Written for our Gold Country Media papers: one military mother’s first two weeks here, and a challenge to make Placer the first county where every school earns the Purple Star.
Read the op-ed →Like where I stand?
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