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Pima County School Superintendent Background and Credentials
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Get to know your Pima County School Superintendent, Dr. Linda L. Arzoumanian. |
From the very beginning, Linda Arzoumanian focused her career--and her future--on her passion: the education and welfare of children and adults.
Starting in West Virginia and Wisconsin, Linda began her teaching career as an adult education instructor. Although a gratifying experience, she saw a need to find a way to influence educational experiences at a much earlier age.
After relocating to Arizona, she shifted her direction, becoming a Nursery School and Preschool teacher and administrator. In her new position, it became clear that parental involvement early in a child's educational development was a critical component of success. With that in mind and twelve years of teaching young children under her belt, she moved to the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) where she channeled her energies developing and implementing a curriculum-based program for three-year-old children and their parents that would align with a Chapter I program for four year olds. So that the viability of the program could be validated, Linda helped develop a portfolio-based assessment to complement the new procedures.
From there, she became a Curriculum Specialist for TUSD, implementing classroom observations and staff development for a full-day kindergarten program for at-risk children. Her efforts resulted in a training program that not only developed and implemented a program for bilingual paraprofessionals, it also provided large group staff development related to early childhood curriculum.
Continuing in her pursuit of improving early childhood development, Linda moved to CODAC Behavioral Health Services, Inc. in Tucson to become the Coordinator of Community Based Services. In that capacity, she coordinated the five-year demonstration grant that utilized family systems and multiple domains theory. As a part of that effort, she developed guidelines and quality assurance for childcare facilities for licensing, reimbursement and national accreditation.
Linda was promoted to the Director of Child and Family Services of CODAC Behavioral Health Services, Inc. Her functions broadened to include training, supervision, and evaluation of multicultural/bicultural staff involved with local, state, and federal programs. Those programs were in accordance with agency policies and procedures in areas of prevention, intervention, and treatment problems for comprehensive behavioral health agency. Linda was also responsible for the design, coordination, and evaluation of the SAMHSA Grant (Integrated Family Services), which focused on aligning education, prevention, early intervention, and treatment for children 0 - 8 and their families.
Staying with CODAC Behavioral Health Services, Inc., but diversifying her skills, Linda then became the Director of Management Information Systems. Unlike previous efforts, her new career challenge made her responsible for the contract review, compliance monitoring, and supervision of functions related to management information systems, data collection, and staff supervision.
Although challenging, Linda knew that education was still her passion--a passion to which she needed to return.
PIMA COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Linda was appointed in December 1999 by the Pima County Board of Supervisors to complete the term of office of retiring school superintendent, Anita Lohr. Linda ran for and was elected to the position of Pima County Superintendent of Schools in November of 2000. In this position, Linda is responsible for:
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Administration of approximately $750 million dollars that flows through the office to sixteen school districts |
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Governing Board member of the Pima Accommodation School District |
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Distribution of Arizona Attorney General opinions to sixteen school districts |
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Recording of all teaching certificates in Pima County for teachers, substitute teachers, and administrators |
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Management of Regional Support Center |
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Management of BIZFEST |
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Management of IT Challenge |
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Management of Arizona Early Intervention Program |
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Management of the Santa Cruz-Pima County Tech PREP Consortium |
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Dissemination and dispersal of information to the general public regarding |
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Assistance and oversight of information, pamphlets, and publications of ballot information for overrides, bond and recall elections |
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Appointment of Governing Board members for schools districts and Pima Community College in accordance with statute |
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Support and oversight of the Pima County Spelling Bee |
EDUCATION
| Ed. D. Early and Middle Childhood | NOVA UNIVERSITY, Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
| M. Ed. Human Relations | OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH |
| B.S. Home Economics Education | STOUT STATE UNIVERSITY, Menomonie, WI |
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Arizona School Board Association |
Arizona Association of County School Superintendents |
Arizona Small and Rural Schools Association |
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
Phi Delta Kappa |
Pima County Superintendent’s Strategic Planning Team/ Pima County School Board/Superintendent/Collaborative |
Women's Study Advisory Council |
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Member |
Community Partnership of Southern Arizona Editorial Advisory Board Catholic Community Services—Board of Directors-2000; Executive Committee-2003 CQI Committee, Ad Hoc Foundation Committee TEMPO-Board of Directors Stout University Foundation Board Arizona Business and Education Coalition-Board of Directors 2003 to present Business Education Rountable/Task Force Member American Association of Education Services Agencies-Federal Relation Representative Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Black Chamber of Commerce P – 20 Council Collaboration with University of Arizona, Pima Community College and Pima County School Districts Greater Tucson Leadership—Education Day for Aspiring Leaders |
Past Member |
School-based Services Committee (Community Partnership of Southern Arizona) CPSA -Youth Services Team Arizona State Board of Education July 2002-January 2003 Greater Tucson Leadership Class 2002 |
Volunteer |
Tucson Unified School District, TUSD 2000 Staff Selection Committee for Administrative Appointments (7) Representative to National Conference representing TUSD |
CERTIFICATES AND ENDORSEMENTS
| Arizona Certificated K-12 Vocational Education |
RECOGNITIONS AND HONORS
Validator of Early Childhood Programs for the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs (NAEYC) Who's Who in American Education 4th - 6th Editions Inside Tucson Business—Woman of Influence 2004 |
PUBLICATIONS
Improving the Skills and Confidence of Early Childhood Public School Teachers in Their Use of Observation Techniques ED 352 127 Increasing Community College Child Development Associate (CDA) Advisor Skills in Recording Observations as a Component of a Competency-Based Assessment ED 367 506 CODAC's Intervention in a Needy Community -- Outcomes, Innovations & Best Practices V1 Issue 2 Spring 1999 |
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