Heather Little Email & Phone Number

Alameda, California, United States

Alameda, California, United States

• Adopt the vision, mission, guiding principles, and policies for the school district• Act in the best interest of all students• Review and approve the budget, including authorizing expenditures• Employ the Superintendent• Serve on City/School Joint Subcommittee and the Wellness Advisory Council

Alameda, California, United States

• Oversaw broad systems change frameworks across policy areas (Early Identification and Intervention (EII), Family Resiliency, Quality Early Learning)• Participated in county and state-level meetings to influence policy and funding changes• Analyzed systems to champion effective programs and service models• Identified opportunities for scalability, develop policy proposals and promote development of a shared vision among partners to support systems change• Fiscal and budgetary oversight of assigned projects• Served as a community representative on the Department of Developmental Services State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention Overview• Developed and maintained relationships with and between First 5 Commissions• Facilitated statewide and national conversations for improving EII• Coordinated peer-to-peer engagement and information exchange• Acted as state lead and liaison for HMG National affiliation membership to promote and recognize CA county efforts to improve early childhood systems• Demonstrated HMG CA impact and potential to First 5 Commissions and their local partners to encourage system development, enhancement, and expansion• Evaluated data to promote purposeful, continual quality improvement

• Advised the City Council on appropriate ways in which to implement the Sunshine Ordinance• Developed goals to ensure practical and timely implementation of the ordinance and proposed amendments to the ordinance. • Heard and made recommendations for any Sunshine Ordinance complaints• Reviewed Sunshine Ordinance and made recommendations for updates to make current

San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided support to QA Managers to ensure smooth transitions and understanding of QA• Developed and implemented agency-wide policies and procedures related to quality assurance• Managed and fostered partnerships with and between agency and county partners• Provided oversight to internal and external compliance reviews• Evaluated program performance to promote system improvement• Co-created and co-led agency framework for retaining Joint Commission accreditation• Developed and participated in trainings focused on compliance and QA staff development• Oversaw departmental recruitment and personnel decision making• Integrated data entry between systems and led verification processes• Supervised quality assurance managers for assigned counties

Assessment and training of special education staff; Training development and presentation to conference attendees; creation of teaching tools and researching/delivery of individualized teaching strategies; modeling teaching methodologies focusing on differentiated instruction and student strengths; leadership; team development and lesson planning.

Sf Bay Area

·• Managed multi-grade level classroom, teaching multiple subjects while incorporating learning strategies for students with learning disabilities • Created and trained staff on student specific behavior intervention plans for students with significant social-emotional and behavioral challenges•. Co-developed and facilitated school-wide restorative justice program that created relational improvements between teachers, staff, students and families. • Case managed Individual Education Plans and Section 504 Plans and oversaw all IEP meetings• Collaborated with treatment teams to develop and implement successful school-wide systems to improve programmatic functioning including addressing communications strategies, response to crisis, and tiered behavioral and educational needs• Oversaw high school graduation requirements

San Francisco Bay Area

Master'S Degree, Special Education And Teaching

Multiple subject special education instruction; Moderate to Severe teaching credential

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology And Communications; Sociology Minor