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 has 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 across the member districts to resolve issues such as equitable funding in a SELPA that downsized, expanding inclusive practices, and CDE performance and compliance I including disproportionality.

In 2021, Susan began working 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 works with a team, led by Dr. Mildred Browne, with expertise in all aspects of Significant Disproportionality, plan development and implementation. She believes sustainable change results from the collaborative strategic planning efforts of the TAF and district team.  Susan’s niche areas are quantitative data analysis and file reviews/case studies.  The results provide insight and understanding of the contributing systemic issues, root causes and success gaps. 

Susan is the parent of an adult daughter with special needs. In 2023, Susan 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. In 2023-24 Susan is a presenter on the topic of Parent Engagement at the Maine Administrators of Special Education Conference as well as the ADR and CARS+ conferences in California.

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

Areas of Particular Interest and Expertise

Step 1: Gather and Inquire

• Leadership Meetings
• Educational Partners’ Meetings
• Gathering Quantitative Data
• Consolidation of Step 1

Step 2: Data and Root Cause Analysis

• Root Cause Analysis
• Prioritizing Factors Contributing to Significant Disproportionality
• Identification of Target Population
• Development of a Theory of Action 
• Consolidation of Step 2

Step 3: Plan for Improvement

• Development of a CIM for CCEIS Action Plan
• CIM for CCEIS Action Plan Review

Step 4: Implementing and Monitoring

• Support data collection for evaluating effectiveness of interventions 
• Support implementation monitoring 
• Provide guidance around student tracking requirements 
• Assist with development of Progress Reports 
• Assist in identifying successful activities to continue once CCEIS funds have been expended