Dr. Arriaza received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He is now an Associate Professor at the Educational Leadership Department of the College of Education at CSU San Jose. He teaches and advises future school leaders and administrators on organizational, curricular, policy, and research topics. He has worked as advisor for school principals and leaders from K-12 schools in the larger Bay Area, and has published extensively and presented in numerous conferences on issues ranging from organizational culture, identity, leadership, action research, to discourse and language.
Dr. Brizendine began her career as a social studies and American government high school teacher, a middle school vice principal, and a coordinator of Multicultural Education in Long Beach Unified School District. She received her master’s degree and Ed.D. from UCLA, where she was a Fellow in the UCLA-Bush Foundation Program in Child Development and Social Policy, and a research assistant in the Laboratory in School and Community Education research project.
Dr. Brizendine has served on a number of review boards of journals in the area of educational leadership. She has received grants for minority educator recruitment and preparation, teacher development in instructional technology and teacher support national board certification. She has also served as faculty team leader and chair of professional development school partnership governing board at CSUH. She is involved in reviewing teacher and educator preparation programs serving on the Board of Institutional Reviewers for California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the Board of Examiners for National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the Board of International Reviewers for the Center for Quality Assurance in International Education. Her research interests include school leadership and capacity building in urban schools, policy implementation, women and minority leadership, school change. |
