Professional Profile PresentationManuel L. Isquierdo, Ed.D.Professional Profile PresentationManuel L. Isquierdo, Ed.D.

1. Professional Profile Presentation
Manuel L. Isquierdo, Ed.D.

2. Exceptional Things That I
Have Accomplished
A look at the extraordinary work and
successes we have achieved.

3. • Labeled a dropout factory
• Access to technology very limited
• Limited early childhood programs
• Parent involvement was limited
• Little effort for dropout prevention
and secondary retention
Challenges and Barriers
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

4. Project Graduation:
The Digital Advantage
• a focus on seniors and freshmen
• a site based graduation plan
• a comprehensive attendance component,
• credit recovery
• Freshman intervention
• advisory
• awards laptops to students who maintain the 4-A’s
• assists 8th grade students with the transition to high school.
The initiative has captured the imagination of business and
community leaders, who have joined forces for the common
cause of student success, family empowerment and community
progress.
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
Winner of the 2011 ASBA Golden Bell
Award

5. to Tech-Savvy
We took SUNNYSIDE from
dropout factory
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

6. 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
505
598
715
821
873 887
We are graduating more
students
graduation numbers
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
1,369 students
=
Increased income
and purchasing
power
$107M 1,369 students
@7.1% State Sales
Tax
$762,040
@9.1% City Sales
Tax
$976,699
more graduates =
more revenue
more graduates =
more purchasing
power

7. Economic Impact of Graduation
U.S. Department of Education
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

8. We are graduating more
students
percentage of students
graduating
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%

9. College Enrollment
Sunnysidestudentsarereadyforcollege
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
2008
2009
2010
2011
182
233
251
320
2008
2009
2010
2011
32
36
35
43
Sunnyside College and Career Readiness
% of graduating class
enrolling in college

10. ONE-to-ONENationally recognized for best
practices
Award winning
Project Graduation was catalyst for

11. Transformation of
SUNNYSIDE
One-to-One
Teaching and Learning
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

12. 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
844
1940
3095
7645
10000
15000 17000
We put Computers into our
Community
Bridging the digital divide, the language divide, and the economic divide
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

13. now available in
SUNNYSIDE!
• Just $9.95 a month for qualifying families
• Easy online application process
• No startup charges
• No contract
• Parent Technology Orientation Events
being planned for May!
Affordable Internet for Families
Connect2
COMPETE
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

14. We Are
Revolutionizing
Education

15. Math:
• Conceptua Fractions (CCSC Domain)
4th 5th and 6th
• Agile Mind 6th 7th 8th and 9th (Algebra
I)
Social Studies:
• McGrawHill. 6th through 9th
Science:
• Discovery Education 6th through 8th
• McGrawHill Cinch 9th
ELA: (digital resources that
accompany our current adoption
• McDougalLittell for 6th through 9th
• Houghton-Mifflin for 4th and 5th
Tech-based Interventions:
• Reading Plus
• Lexia
• Read 180
• System 44
• Mind play
• Sure Score (Ramps to Reading and
Skate Kids)
Online Diagnostic Tool
• Raps:360
Digital Curriculum
transforming instruction
SUNNYSIDE:
Digital Curriculum
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

16. Sunnyside Dropout
Prevention & Recovery
An online, alternative-learning
program
which offers students who have
dropped out an opportunity to earn a
high school diploma.
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

17. • Full Online Students
12
• Credit Recovery/Advancement
176
• World History
225
• GradLink
12
Giving Students an
Alternative to Stay in
School

18. The Freshman Experience
• One-to-One Laptops
• College & career readiness prep
• Online intervention support & credited courses
• Learning integrated across core subjects
• Individualized education & career plans
• Small class sizes
• Honors classes
• Smaller learning teams
• Personalized support and peer mentoring
• Anywhere, anytime learning
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
Freshman Academies

19. Our students are staying in
school
Secondary ADM
percentage of students
choosing to stay
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
%
%
%
%
%
%
4,800
5,000
5,200
5,400
5,600
5,800
6,000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
5157
5438 5460
5663 5696
5825

20. Parent Engagement at
Sunnyside
• Parent Engagement Steering
Committee
• Parent Involvement Assistants
(PIAs)
• Parent Connect
• Parent Link & mobile App
we help parents become tech-savvy
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

21. speaking out against inequality in
policy and practice
• Pima Community College Entry Exams
• Pima Community College DACA student
tuition break
• GradLink - DACA student qualification
• Voice against S.B.1070
• Advocating against ELL 4 hour block
• Advocating for voter registration
• Advocating immigrant rights
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
Community

22. Marketing and Public
Relations
State and National Award winning

23. Awards
Manuel L. Isquierdo Ed.D., Sunnyside Unified School District Superintendent
2011 recipient of the ASPRA*tions Award for
Superintendent for Contributions to Public Relations.
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!
ASPRA Award for Project
Graduation: The Digital Advantage
2012 ASPRA and
NSPRA National
Award for Choose
Sunnyside Marketing
Campaign

24. Bus banners
25 English and 25 Spanish vinyl banners,
to be mounted on 25 SUSD busses.
Direct mail postage
5,000 postcards mailed bulk mail to zip
code 85714 north and west of SUSD.
Outdoor advertising
AdVision Outdoor bus benches and bus
stop displays.
Radio
La Caliente
MIA 97.1
La Poderosa
Print
Ad in Arizona Bilingüe
SUNNYSIDE marketing
Improving our Image
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

25. Students are choosing to come to
Sunnyside
2010 2011 2012 2013
200
667
1230 1305
2010 2011 2012 2013
District Open Enrollment
Marketingeffortsandimprovedimage
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

26. Image and Partnership
District Highlights - Look at what we have done!

27. National Image and Brand
SUNNYSIDE Office of Public Information

28. Manuel L. Isquierdo, Ed.D.
Contact information
innovateAZ@gmail.com
(520) 991-2990