Ray Garcia has a 28+ year successful track record of effectively working with educational leaders in closing the student achievement gap. As an associate professor in educational leadership at California State University-East Bay, he teaches graduate course work to prepare educational leaders for the challenges of achieving equity and excellence in urban settings.
Ray has worked in a variety of educational leadership capacities including: Dean of a Corporate University, Chief Academic Officer, Executive Director for Information Technology, Director of Accountability, Director of Staff Development, Organizational Development Consultant and as a Knowledge and Evaluation Manager for a non-profit foundation. He began his educational career as an elementary and middle school teacher and later assumed the role of school principal.
Ray’s research interests focus on sustaining leadership capacity to transform entrenched organizational patterns. He has published in scholarly journals and is a noted speaker and consultant a national and state forums. His work is guided by the philosophy that leaders can readily take action to impact the school’s culture belief system by creating experiences to achieve desired results.
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