Director Carlos Ulloa

 

Dr. Carlos Ulloa began his career in education in 1991. Ulloa earned his associate of arts at Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes in Early Childhood Education, bachelor of arts from San Diego State University in Liberal Studies with a Spanish Bilingual Emphasis, a master of education degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University and his doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of California, Los Angeles. Carlos also studied abroad at the University of Granada, Spain during his senior year of college.

 

Dr. Ulloa has been an elementary teacher, Reading Recovery/Descubriendo la Lectura teacher, director of curriculum and instruction, parent involvement specialist, middle school assistant principal and elementary school principal. Carlos is also a published author and has written and edited extensively in Spanish for Scott Foresman and Houghton Mifflin School Division. Ulloa brings the experience of teaching in dual immersion settings and also starting a dual immersion program district wide. Dr. Ulloa was instrumental in founding a district wide dual immersion program in five schools in the San Ysidro School District.

 

He served as a senior educational consultant for Consortium on Reaching Excellence (CORE) from 2008 until 2013. In September of 2012, Dr. Ulloa was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve a four-year term to the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), an advisory board to the California State Board of Education. The IQC (http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/cc/cd/) advises the State Board of Education on all matters pertaining to curriculum, frameworks and assessment.   

Ulloa grew up in a bilingual home. His parents immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. His father via El Salvador and his mother from Guadalajara, Mexico. Ulloa only spoke to his father in English and in Spanish to his mother.

 

Carlos grew up visiting his aunt, uncle, and cousins in Petaluma throughout his entire life. His aunt and uncle, Fernando and Irene Esponda, moved to Petaluma in 1969. His cousins were products of Miwok Valley, Kennilworth and Casa Grande. Being closer to his family and opening Petaluma’s first dual immersion school brought Dr. Carlos Ulloa to be the founding principal of Loma Vista Immersion Academy.

Carlos is the father of John (25) and grandfather to Alister Quinn of Portland, Oregon.