HTH Graduate School of Education Faculty
The HTH Graduate School of Education faculty reflects the school's commitment to applying theoretical frameworks to practice and to linking educational leadership with graduate level coursework. All faculty members are experienced educators who introduce both the theory and actuality of effective teaching, research, and leadership to the graduate school classroom.
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Core Faculty Stacey Caillier, Ph.D. Ben Daley. M.A. Robert C. Riordan, Ed.D. Larry Rosenstock, J.D., M.Ed, L.H.D. Kelly Wilson, M.A. |
Adjunct Faculty Azul Terronez, M.A. |
HTH GSE Board of Directors
The HTH GSE Board of Directors is an experienced group of leaders in education that supports the mission and goals of the HTH GSE. The Board has governance and fiduciary level control over the GSE. It is autonomous and its decisions are not subject to the approval of HTH Learning. The board conducts its meetings in accordance with the Brown Act. Minutes from Previous GSE Board Meetings can be found here.
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Gary Jacobs Jim Cahill Kay Davis Paul Heckman, Ph.D |
Neeru Khosla Carl Maida, Ph.D. Lowell Potiker |
HTH GSE Founding Advisory Board
The HTH GSE Founding Advisory Board is a distinguished panel of leaders and innovators in K-12 and post-secondary education, many of whom have contributed key ideas to the creation and development of the HTH GSE. Board members serve in an advisory capacity, mentoring GSE faculty and students, visiting the campus to participate in the HTH Speaker Series, and offering guidance as to future directions for the institution.
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Richard C. Atkinson, Ph.D. Libia Gil, Ph.D. Gary Hoachlander, Ph.D. Frank Kemerer, Ph.D. |
Deborah W. Meier, M.A. Leslie Santee Siskin, Ph.D. Nancy Faust Sizer |
HTH GSE Program Advisory Board
The Advisory Boards for each M.Ed. program are comprised of thoughtful leaders and educators with unique expertise relevant to Teacher Leadership and School Leadership. Members include professors from local universities, leaders and teachers in K-12 schools, and both current HTH GSE students and alumni. Board members serve in an advisory capacity, providing feedback on program design and vision, critiquing and benchmarking student work, and ensuring that GSE programs serve the needs of K-12 schools and the profession.
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Melissa Agudelo HTH GSE School Leadership Student Dean of Students, High Tech High International Phil Beaumont Director, Museum School Tony Lamair Burks II, Ed.D. Superintendent-in-Residence, National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) at San Diego State University Duane Coleman, Ed.D. Associate Superintendent, Oceanside Unified School District Alan J. Daly, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Education Studies, University of California, San Diego Melissa Daniels HTH GSE School Leadership Alumnus Director, High Tech Middle Chula Vista Hector Espinoza Principal, San Ysidro High School Ric Hovda Dean, College of Education, San Diego State University Liz Larkin Principal, San Diego Early/Middle College Rose Linda Martinez, Ed.D. Director, Educational Leadership Development Academy, University of San Diego Doug Fisher, Ph.D. Dean of Faculty Affairs, Health Science High & Middle College Christa Coleman Principal, KIPP Adelante Preparatory Academy Lilian Hsu HTH GSE School Leadership Alumnus Director, High Tech High Chula Vista Colleen O’Boyle Principal, Da Vinci School of Design |
Brian Bristol Superintendent, Lakeside Union School District Frank Cornelissen, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego Francisco Escobedo, Ed.D. Superintendent, Chula Vista Elementary School District Margaret Gallego, Ph.D. Professor, School of Teacher Education, San Diego State University Nicole Hinostro Director, High Tech High International Cynthia Kelley Principal, Urban Discovery Academy Heather Lattimer, Ed. D. Assistant Professor, School of Leadership & Education Sciences, University of San Diego Angelica Lopez Principal, Ocean Knoll Elementary, Encinitas Bob Ogle Principal, Pacific Ridge School, Carlsbad Loni Philbrick-Linzmeyer HTH GSE Teacher Leadership Alumnus Humanities Teacher, High Tech Middle Chula Vista Wendy Ranck-Buhr, Ph. D. Principal, San Diego Cooperative Charter School Jennifer Villalpondo HTH GSE Teacher Leadership Alumnus Humanities Teacher, Jefferson Middle School, Oceanside |
HTH GSE Advisory Board
Richard C. Atkinson served from 1995-2003 as the seventeenth president of the University of California system. His eight-year tenure was marked by innovative approaches to admissions and outreach, research initiatives to accelerate the university's contributions to the state's economy, and a challenge to the country's most widely used admissions examination the SAT 1 that initiated major changes in the way millions of America's youth will be tested for college admissions. Before becoming president of the UC System, he served for fifteen years as chancellor of UC San Diego, leading its emergence as one of the top research universities in the nation. His own research in cognitive science and psychology addresses problems of memory and cognition. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a former director of the National Science Foundation, a past president of the American Association of Universities, and was a long-term member of the faculty at Stanford University. A mountain in Antarctica is named is his honor.
Director of the Teacher Leadership program and Core Faculty Member at the GSE
Stacey Caillier is the Director of the HTH GSE Teacher Leadership M.Ed. program. Prior to coming to High Tech High, she completed her doctorate at UC Davis in School Organization and Educational Policy. At her dissertation site, she collaborated with teachers to design and implement an action research project that led to many school-wide reforms. As a graduate teaching fellow at UC Davis and an adjunct faculty member in Hamline University's Graduate School of Education, Stacey taught courses on action research and socio-cultural issues in education, mentored practicing teachers, and presented her work at multiple educational conferences. She began her career as a high school physics and math teacher at a Portland, Oregon high school affiliated with the Coalition of Essential Schools. She later served as a teacher and science specialist in a California charter school. Stacey majored in physics and English at Willamette University, where she also earned a Master's in Teaching and a secondary physics and math credential.
HTH GSE Governing Board
Jim Cahill retired as Manager of The Price Group, LLC in 2006.He was responsible for the investment and management of the financial portfolio of Sol Price, the founder of The Price Club chain of membership warehouse stores and all his related entities. One of those entities, The Price Family Charitable Fund, is a charitable foundation, of which Mr. Cahill served as Executive Vice-President. The Assets of the Foundation and related charitable entities exceeded $370 million. Mr. Cahill served on the Board of Directors of two publicly traded companies. Price Legacy, Inc. was a real estate investment trust with assets of over $1.1 billion, primarily in open-air shopping centers. PriceSmart, Inc. was an international retailer with 27 stores in 13 countries. Currently, Mr. Cahill serves on the Board of Governors for The San Diego Foundation, is chairman of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Charitable Real Estate Foundation and is Director for High Tech High, an innovative charter school with seven campuses. Among Mr. Cahill's past community service are Board positions with Neighborhood National Development Bank, CitiLink Investment Company, Accion International, San Diego Incubator Corporation, Certified Development Corporation and San Diego Innovative Pre-School Project. Mr. Cahill is the proud father of two boys, both currently in college.
Chief Academic Officer and Core Faculty Member at the GSE
Ben began his High Tech High tenure as a physics and robotics teacher. His role evolved to School Director, and then to Chief Academic Officer and Chief Operating Officer. As CAO and COO, Ben works closely with school directors and teachers to provide leadership for hiring, curriculum, and professional development for all High Tech schools as well as working with other staff on the non-teaching side of the organization. Ben graduated from Haverford College with a bachelor's degree in physics and teaching credentials in both physics and math. He went on to receive a Master's of Arts in Education with a focus on Teaching and Learning from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Libia Gil is a senior fellow for the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where she assists in leadership development initiatives and collaborates with states and districts to develop strategies for improving student achievement. Libia was Superintendent of the Chula Vista Elementary School District for over nine years. Under her leadership, which began in 1993, the district experienced continuous growth and is currently serving more than 27,000 students in 43 schools. Libia also fostered the successful implementation of numerous partnerships and school change models, resulting in the creation of six charter schools that have shown continual gains in student achievement and customer satisfaction. In 2002, she received the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education for her outstanding leadership in Chula Vista. She is nationally recognized for her work in redesigning central office roles and functions to serve and support teaching and learning. Libia began her teaching career in the Los Angeles Unified School District and, with her colleagues, created a successful K-12 alternative school and numerous alternative classroom programs. She has held a variety of administrative positions including school principal, Area Administrator (supervisor of K-12 principals), and Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. Libia holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on bilingual and multicultural education from the University of Washington.
HTH GSE Governing Board
Associate Dean, Professor of Education, Co-Director CANDEL, UC Davis
Paul Heckman is a Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, where he also co-directs the CANDEL doctoral program in educational leadership. His research interests focus on educational change and invention in urban communities, schools, and afterschool programs. These efforts are designed to understand the necessary conditions for educational renewal and invention in these settings. One of the current sites is West Sacramento Early College Prep in West Sacramento, California. The school serves the economically poorest students from that community; most are of color and their primary home language is other than English. Lessons learned from earlier experiences, and similar to WSECP, appear in articles and book chapters, as well as in two books: The Courage to Change: Stories From Successful School Reform, and a soon to be published book by Heckman and Viki Montera, tentatively entitled Waking Up: The Power of Communities and Their Schools.
He has taught at the elementary and secondary levels and served as a middle and senior high school assistant principal. He has also held professorships and administrative positions at the University of Southern Maine, the University of Arizona, and the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
HTH GSE Advisory Board
Gary Hoachlander is president of ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career. Beginning his career in 1966 as a brakeman for the Western Maryland Railroad, Gary has devoted most of his professional life to helping young people learn by doing connecting education to the opportunities, challenges, and many different rewards to be found through work. Widely known for his expertise in career and technical education and many other aspects of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education, Gary has consulted extensively for the U.S. Department of Education, state departments of education, local school districts, foundations, and a variety of other clients. Gary is the president of MPR Associates, Inc., an educational research and development organization closely affiliated with ConnectEd. He is also one of the country's leading policy analysts for the U.S. Department of Education, including the National Center for Education Statistics and the Office of Vocational and Adult Education. Both MPR Associates and ConnectEd are headquartered in Berkeley, California. Gary earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University and holds master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.
Gary Jacobs
Chair, HTH GSE Governing Board
Mr. Gary Jacobs is the Managing Director of Jacobs Investment Company LLC (JIC). JIC was created in 1997 to participate in real estate development throughout the United States. In partnership with several developers, JIC has invested over sixty million dollars in projects ranging from government services to residential to commercial. Mr. Jacobs serves as Chairman of the Board of DermTech International, Ora Bio Ltd. and Nutrinia Ltd. Mr. Jacobs is also a director of Next Generation Technologies, GEO2 Technologies Inc., Flourinex Active Ltd. and Fallbrook Technologies.
In the community, Mr. Jacobs serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of High Tech High charter high schools, Graduate School of Education and is active in the national high school reform movement. HTH is founded on three design principles: personalization, adult-world connection, and a common intellectual mission. He also serves as Chair of the Dean's Advisory Council for the Social Sciences at University of California at San Diego UCSD. He and his wife, Jerri-Ann, created the Gary and Jerri-Ann Graduate Fellowship in Social Sciences Endowment and the Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs Chair in Social Sciences.
In addition, Mr. Jacobs is a past president of the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County. He and Jerri-Ann have endowed the Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs Teen Director position and created an endowment for the senior department at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus. Mr. Jacobs is also a board member of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, Jewish Community Foundation, The San Diego Foundation and the UCSD Board of Overseers.
In the summer of 2000, Mr. Jacobs created and funded the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute. The institute brings together ten Jewish teenagers from San Diego, ten Jewish teenagers from the Shaar HarNegev region in Israel, ten Israeli Bedouin teenagers from Segev Shalom and ten Palestinian teenagers from Gaza for a year long program during which participants and staff travel together to San Diego, study historical Muslim/Jewish relations in Spain for a week and then in Israel for a week to study with a modern perspective.
Mr. Jacobs graduated in 1979 from the University of California at San Diego with a B.A. in Management Science. He worked as a Software Programmer and Engineer at Linkabit Inc. and QUALCOMM from 1979 through 1996, then as a Senior Education Specialist until 2000 working with K-12 educational institutions to enhance science and math studies.
Mr. Jacobs lives in Del Mar with his wife Jerri-Ann, son Adam, daughters Sara, Beth, and Mara, and their dogs, Jasmine and Goldie.
HTH GSE Advisory Board
As a Professor in Residence at the University of San Diego, Frank Kemerer teaches education law in both the School of Law and the School of Leadership and Education. For 25 years he taught education law as a Regents Professor at the University of North Texas in Denton, where he also served as the Director of the Center for the Study of Education Reform and conducted several major studies on school choice and charter schools. He received his doctorate in educational administration and policy analysis from Stanford University in 1975 with a law minor from Stanford Law School. He has authored, coauthored, or co-edited twelve books. Among them is the legal textbook Constitutional Rights (West Publishing Company 1979); School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy and Law (Brookings Institution Press 1999); and School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity (University of Texas Press 2002). He received the Scribes Certificate of Distinction in 1992 from the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects for William Wayne Justice: A Judicial Biography (University of Texas Press 1991) and the 2002 Bronze Medal Book of the Year Award in Education from Foreword Magazine for School Choice Tradeoffs. His latest book, California School Law, was published by Stanford University Press in 2005.
HTH GSE Governing Board
Neeru Khosla is currently the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization, which aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Mrs. Khosla currently serves as a member on several advisory boards, including The Nueva School's Board of Trustees, the Board of Directors for High Tech High School's Graduate School of Education, the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation, the Advisory Board for DonorsChoose, the Advisory Board for Stanford University's School of Education, and is one of the founding members of the K-12 Initiative of the Design School (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) at Stanford University. Mrs. Khosla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Delhi University/San Jose State University, a Master's of Science degree in Molecular Biology from San Jose State University, and a Master's of Education degree from Stanford University.
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Carl Maida is a professor at UCLA, where he teaches medical anthropology, global health, and scientific research ethics in the Graduate Program in Oral Biology. He has a joint appointment in the Institute of the Environment in the UCLA College of Letters and Science, where he teaches courses on action research methods and conducts community-based research on natural hazards, community toxics, environmental disease, and urban sustainability. He co-directs Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-College Science Education program at UCLA School of Dentistry. At UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, he conducts studies of the impact of natural disaster on children, adolescents and their families as a member of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, and as a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute, among persons living with HIV. He is a member of the UCLA Campus Sustainability Committee, and chairs its Academic Subcommittee. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CFO of HTH and HTH GSE
Kay has worked on the business side of public education for the past 19 years. Prior to joining High Tech High, she served as Budget Supervisor and most recently, Director of Payroll and Benefits for San Diego Unified. Prior to coming west to California, she managed a nonprofit arts organization in Iowa, was assistant manager of the Des Moines Convention Center responsible for financial operations, and served as an accountant for the Salt Lake County Treasurer. She is a graduate of Iowa State University. Kay also serves the GSE as CFO.
HTH GSE Advisory Board
Deborah Meier is currently on the faculty of New York University's Steinhardt School of Education as a senior scholar and adjunct professor. She is also a Board member and director of New Ventures at Mission Hill, director and advisor to the Forum for Democracy and Education, and on the Board of The Coalition of Essential Schools. Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education as a teacher, writer and public advocate. She began her teaching career as a kindergarten and Head Start teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City schools. She was the founder and teacher-director of a network of highly successful public elementary schools in East Harlem. Between 1992 and 1996 she also served as co-director of the Coalition Campus Project that successfully redesigned the reform of two large failing city high schools, and created a dozen new small Coalition schools. She was an advisor to New York City's Annenberg Challenge and Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University from 1995-1997. From 1997 to 2005, she was the founder and principal of the Mission Hill School, a K-8 Boston Public Pilot school serving 180 children in the Roxbury community.
Meier attended Antioch College and received a Master's in history from the University of Chicago. She has received honorary degrees from Bank Street College of Education, Brown, Bard, Clark, Teachers College of Columbia University, Dartmouth, Harvard, Hebrew Union College, Hofstra, The New School, Lesley College, SUNY Albany, UMASS Lowell, and Yale. She was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 1987. Her books, The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons to America from a Small School in Harlem (1995), Will Standards Save Public Education? (2000), In Schools We Trust (2002), Keeping School, with Ted and Nancy Sizer (2004) and Many Children Left Behind (2004) are all published by Beacon Press.
HTH GSE Advisory Board
Ted Mitchell is President and CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm working to transform public education by supporting the creation of entrepreneurial organizations that serve the nation's most underserved communities. Ted became the CEO of NewSchools in the fall of 2005. He began a lifetime's work in education as a professor at Dartmouth College, moving to Stanford, then to UCLA, and most recently to Occidental College, where he served as President from 1999-2005. Ted is a national leader in the effort to provide high-quality education for all students and has long been active in California and Los Angeles educational reform initiatives. He currently chairs the Governor's Committee on Educational Excellence, charged with making recommendations to overhaul California's system of K-12 finance and governance. Ted received his bachelor's degree in History and Economics, his master's degree in History, and his doctorate in the history of American education, all from Stanford. He also served as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees from 1985-1990.
Administrative Dean of GSE
Allison was a Teach for America corps member and staff member before serving as a founding teacher of KIPP Bridge College Prep. After eight years in schools and increasingly frustrated with the limited impact that one school could have on a seemingly intractable problem, Allison went to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to study Public Policy and earn a Master's Degree. She joined the team at High Tech High after getting chills the first time she walked on to campus and thinking, This is the revolution. As the Administrative Dean of the the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, she also serves as the Accreditation Liaison Officer for the WASC Accreditation Process.
HTH GSE Governing Board
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Potiker graduated from the University of Michigan in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in General Studies. He then moved to California to continue his education. He graduated from Pepperdine University with his Juris Doctor in 1986 and is a member of the California Bar.
Mr. Potiker has served in various executive roles including Vice President of Marketing for Entertainment Publications, Inc. of Troy, Michigan and Vice President of Acquisitions for HSP Group, Inc. a private venture group. He has also served on the boards of numerous organizations including The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, the United Jewish Federation of San Diego, the Maritime Museum, The Burnham Institute and San Diego Jewish Academy. Mr. Potiker lives in La Jolla with his wife, Julie and their three children.
President and Core Faculty Member in the GSE
Robert (Rob) Riordan is the President of the HTH GSE. Rob has worked as a teacher, trainer, and program developer for over 40 years. He is a co-founder of High Tech High, and served as special assistant to the Principal at the Cambridge (MA) Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), overseeing the re-design of that high school into five small schools. Earlier, as a teacher at CRLS, Rob developed an award-winning writing center and two high school internship programs, for which he was named National School to Work Practitioner of the Year in 1994. For several years in the 1990's, he developed and taught the practicum seminar for student teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Rob was a lead researcher and then Director of the New Urban High School Project, 1996-99. He is co-author, with Adria Steinberg and Kathleen Cushman, of Schooling for the Real World: The Essential Guide to Rigorous and Relevant Learning (Jossey Bass, 1999). He earned his M.A.T. and doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and his bachelor's degree from Haverford College.
Larry Rosenstock, J.D., M.Ed, L.H.D. 
Dean and Core Faculty Member of the GSE
Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of High Tech High, a network of eleven K-12 public charter schools in California, and is Dean of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. Larry taught carpentry in urban high schools in Boston and Cambridge and was principal of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. A member of the Massachusetts and U.S. Supreme Court Bars, he served as an attorney at the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He directed the federal New Urban High School Project, and was president of the Price Charitable Fund.
Larry and his work have been featured on Oprah, Lehrer, Newsweek, and Forbes. He is a winner of the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, is an Ashoka Fellow, and won the McGraw Prize in Education.
HTH GSE Advisory Board
Leslie Santee Siskin is a noted sociologist of organizations and organizational change. Her research focuses on high school structuring, restructuring, and reform. She is the author or co-author of several articles and books about high schools, including Realms of Knowledge: Academic Departments in Secondary Schools, The Subjects in Question: Departmental Organization and the High School, and The New Accountability: High Schools and High-stakes Testing. She has been a Fellow at Columbia University and Cambridge University, and was Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at Hofstra before coming to New York University. Leslie earned her master's and doctoral degrees from Stanford University, and her bachelor's from Middlebury College.
HTH GSE Advisory Board
Nancy Faust Sizer is a career teacher who has worked in public and private high schools, including Cambridge Rindge and Latin, Phillips Academy, and the Wheeler School. With her husband, Theodore R. Sizer, she has taught at Brown University and currently teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Both Nancy and Ted recently served as acting co-principals at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School where Nancy also was Transition Counselor, helping to lead its first graduating class through the transition to postsecondary education. The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract (Beacon Press, 1999) is her most recent book, written with her husband Ted.
Adjunct Faculty in the GSE
Director of the School Leadership program and Core Faculty Member in the GSE
She was excited to be able to continue this work at High Tech High (HTH) as a math/physics teacher when she relocated to San Diego in 2002, the town of her alma mater, UCSD. Teaching at HTH inspired Kelly to infuse more technology into interdisciplinary projects she designed with her teaching partner, Mark Aguirre, including challenging to students design and program robots, create video games that modeled the laws of physics, invent electronic products to market to the public and produce original documentaries. After teaching at the HTH "classic", Kelly helped open our second high school, High Tech High International, with an exceptional team of teachers from HTH and was Director for 5 years. During that time, she learned many great lessons about leading from behind, facilitating adult learning in teacher-driven schools, supporting teachers in project-based learning and the critical role of student voice in shaping schools. In her current role in the HTH Graduate School of Education as Director of the School Leadership, M.Ed. Program, Kelly loves learning from her graduate students and being pushed to think more deeply about school design and innovation. In her "free" time, Kelly enjoys yoga, dance, hiking, snowboarding and spending precious time with friends and family.
