Susan Bobbitt-Voth, a bilingual educator, has served as the director of three multi-district SELPAs in Central and Southern California. She has worked with small rural districts to large urban districts. Mrs. Bobbitt-Voth served as the co-chair of various State SELPA committees including Alternative Dispute Resolution, New Directors, and Local Plan.

In all positions, she formed work groups to ensure all districts had a voice, facilitated crucial conversations, and led efforts to resolve issues such as equitable funding across the member districts in a SELPA that downsized, expanded inclusive practices, and CDE performance and compliance including disproportionality.

Since retirement, Susan has served as a TA Facilitator and Alternative Dispute Resolution Coach. She is dedicated to this meaningful work to disrupt the disproportionality and improve the outcomes for all students. She has expertise in all aspects of Significant Disproportionality, plan development and implementation and works with a team, led by Dr. Mildred Browne. She believes sustainable change results from the collaborative efforts of the TAFs and district team. Susan’s niche areas are quantitative data analysis and file reviews/case studies. The results have provided insight and understanding of the systemic factors contributing to the root causes and success gaps for 40+ districts.

Susan is the parent of an adult daughter with special needs. In 2023, she published a book, Amber’s Mom: Lessons Learned as a resource guide to assist parents in navigating the various systems along the pathway from early childhood through adulthood. Since then, she has presented on the topic of Parent Engagement at statewide conferences in Maine, Wisconsin and California.

She currently resides in Southern California and would welcome the opportunity to work virtually with LEAs across California to facilitate efforts to interrupt disproportionality and influence sustainable change.