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Vallecitos is located in San Diego, CA serving a high percentage of English language learners (over 60%) and low-income families (over 90%).

David served as the lead PLC coach for Barton Junior High over a three-year period. Barton is located in El Dorado, Arkansas, and serves a student population of over 80% low-income families. Barton’s leadership, dedicated teacher teams, professional learning community practices, and schoolwide system of interventions helped propel student achievement in reading, math, and science.

SCSD is a small rural district in Marshall, AR. David served as the lead PLC coach for Searcy County School District over a three-year period. A district leadership team/guiding coalition was formed to assist all schools in developing shared knowledge of the school improvement process and determining the “tight” action steps of the PLC and RTI processes. All Searcy County Schools developed site leadership teams, teacher teams, and schoolwide intervention teams, all aimed at enhancing their individual and team practices to improve student achievement.

David began as a PLC coach, offering professional development and coaching to K-12 site principals, district directors, and instructional coaches. Over his three years with the district, he also provided professional development and coaching support to teacher teams and site PLC leadership teams in each of the K-8 schools. Teton School District has 9 schools serving students in grades K-12.