Northern California Educational Leadership Consortium

Jim Southwick

Leadership Coach

Assistant Superintendent
Tehama County Department of Education
Leadership Coach, NorCal ELC


My Passions/Skills/Assets relevant to NorCal ELC:
  • Social and Emotional Learning, Rural California Advocacy, Data Use and Systems, Inter-Agency Partnerships, Community Based Organizations

Personal Goal and Expectations for NorCal ELC

Goal(s): To be a servant leader through a collaborative process of exploration and learning relational to each POP identified by the team. 

Expectations: To learn from each other, to facilitate teams to find common ground and root causes before jumping to conclusions. To be a part of the “hard work” of implementation, trial and error through a continuous improvement lens. To have lots of fun!

Portrait of Jim Southwick