LibGuides: EDU 512: Educational Leadership and Societal Change: The Distinguished Practitioners Series: Trudy Arriaga, Ed.D.

Biographical Information

Program Director of Cal Lutheran University's M.A. in Educational Leadership program. Distinguished Educator in Residence and former Dean of Equity and outreach in the Graduate School of Education at Cal Lutheran University. A 40-year career in education, including 14 years as the first female superintendent for Ventura Unified School District (VUSD) before retiring in July 2015.

Books Published

Leading While Female: A Culturally Proficient Response for Gender Equity
By Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, Stacie Lynn Stanley, and Delores B. Lindsey
ISBN: ‎978-1544360744
Publication Date: 2020
First, just to be clear: Leading While Female is not a book about how to get a leadership job. Nor is it about fixing or transforming women into male managers or mindsets. Instead, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey’s bigger ambition is to help both women and men educational leaders confront and close the gender equity gap―a gap that currently denies highly qualified women and women of color opportunities to better serve our millions of public school students.
My Leading While Female Journey: A Guided Reflective Journal
By Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, Stacie Lynn Stanley, and Delores B. Lindsey
ISBN: 978-1071884515
Publication Date: 2023
Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey support readers to explore their personal and professional cultural proficiencies.

Opening Doors : an implementation template for cultural proficiency by Trudy Tuttle Arriaga; Randall B. Lindsey
Call Number: LC 213.23.V46 A77 2016
ISBN: 9781483388793
Publication Date: 2016
This book tells the story of Ventura Unified School District′s successful implementation of cultural proficiency, which opened long-closed doors for marginalized students and returned gains on every key success metric. Most importantly, it will empower you to do the same for your school or district.
The Wiley Handbook of Educational Policy by Rosemary Papa (Editor); Shadow W. J. Armfield (Editor)
ISBN: 9781119218449
Publication Date: 2018
Chapter 15 - Opening Doors: Do Our Policies and Leadership Actions Reflect Our Stated Core Values? by Trudy T. Arriaga, Randall B. Lindsey, Delores B. Lindsey, and Raymond D. Terrell.

Articles Published

Extraordinary Stories from Ordinary Women Leaders
By Trudy Arriaga, Stacie Stanley, and Delores Lindsey in Leadership v. 48, no. 5, (2019): 12-17.
Teaming up to Close Educational Gaps
By Diana L Stephens, Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, and Randall B Lindsey in Leadership v. 42 n. 4 (Mar-Apr 2013): 10-13.