One important responsibility of the county superintendent is to leverage the office to provide supports and resources for all of the districts, schools, families and students throughout Pinal County. Here are a few of the projects that I have developed or supported during the last few years in Pinal County.
- icivics- civics education with Justice Sandra Day O’Conner
- Business and Education Partnership and Annual Summit
- Annual Lead WEL- Leadership Conference
- Annual Teacher’s Conference
- Annual Spelling Bee
- Mary C. O’Brien- A+ School of Excellence
- Pinal County Final Mile
- Mad Learn App development contest
- Next Generation of STEM Leaders
- Next Generation STEM Administrators
- Healthy Families – Healthy Youth
- Pinal County C.A.R.E.S: U.S. Department of Justice, STOP School Violence
- Educational Disparities and Teacher Development GrantESA Consortium Services Technology Consortium ServicesData Processing Services
- Fab Lab- Mobile STEM Lab and Training
- ASBO training for district business office staff
- ASBA training for school board members
- New Teacher Support Network
- Governor’s Grant for New School Buses
- Mutual Link Automated School Safety
- AZDOHS: Crowdstrike-EDR (Endpoint detection and response)
- Thales- MFA (Multi- factor Authentication)
- Cisco DUO.
- Tanium – patching software for vulnerabilities
- E-Rate ECF (emergency connectivity fund): Bus Wi-Fi project
- Installed CradlePoint on buses for student connectivity and security cameras.
- Currently partner with Verizon.
- Pinal County private 5G project: Broadband connectivity for students lacking during pandemic.
- Consortium Steering Committee
- Monthly Superintendent Meetings
- Annual Review of district Data and needs, with district staff