Terry Godfrey

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Terry Godfrey

Prior offices

Palo Alto Unified School District school board At-large

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Education

Bachelor's

University of California, Irvine

Graduate

UCLA

Personal

Profession

Finance director

Contact

Personal website

Terry Godfrey is an at-large member on the Palo Alto Unified Board of Education in California. Godfrey was elected in the general election on November 4, 2014.

Biography

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Godfrey has a bachelor's degree in math from the University of California, Irvine and a master's in finance from UCLA. She is a financial consultant for nonprofit organizations The Grove Foundation and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. She previously worked for Xerox and Intel, and was director of finance and strategic planning at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Elections

2014

See also: Palo Alto Unified School District elections (2014)

The election in Palo Alto Unified featured two seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election.

Candidates Ken Dauber, Catherine Crystal Foster, Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera, Gina Dalma and Terry Godfrey ran for election. Dauber and Godfrey won election to the two seats by defeating Foster, Cabrera and Dalma. No incumbents filed for re-election.

Results

Palo Alto Unified School District,
At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Ken Dauber	29.5%	10,709
	Nonpartisan	Terry Godfrey	27.1%	9,837
	Nonpartisan	Catherine Crystal Foster	26.6%	9,637
	Nonpartisan	Gina Dalma	14%	5,077
	Nonpartisan	Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera	2.8%	998
Total Votes				36,258
Source: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, "Official Final Results," accessed December 23, 2014

Funding

Godfrey reported $27,946.00 in contributions and $18,494.48 in expenditures to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, leaving him with a cash balance of $9,451.52 as of September 30, 2014.

Endorsements

Godfrey was endorsed by the Santa Clara County Democratic Party.

Campaign themes

2014

Godfrey listed the following priorities on her campaign website:

“	My focus is on harnessing the best of our schools, acknowledging the challenges and charting a way forward towards more innovative, student-centered schools where healthy, engaged students are achieving their definitions of success. To get there we must prioritize: 1. Great teachers and teaching for consistent, creative and careful stewardship of each student’s journey to his/her potential. With students as our focus and teachers and staff our most important touch-point with students, we must ensure that they are well-staffed, well-trained, and well-supported so that they can be ready to meet students where they are and facilitating each student’s achievement of her/his full potential in an atmosphere of creativity, curiosity, inclusiveness and growth by Teaming up with teachers and prioritizing resources to support them, Making talent management and professional development a priority, Making the diversity of our teaching staff reflective of our student body, Exploring resource models that leverage the individual strengths of our teachers and staff. I am proud that our teachers have endorsed my candidacy. I look forward to working with our dedicated staff. 2. Innovation through new teaching models, technology, creative uses of facilities and new methods to ensure an excellent education for all students. We have a unique opportunity with an improving financial climate and new leadership to take our district to the next level by Studying and piloting new learning models,starting with initiating Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools as recommended by the F.L.E.S. Committee (of which I was a member) in 2008, Innovating with technology, Continuously improving, Supporting our students' social/emotional health, Thoughtfully implementing the Common Core standards, Systemically sharing best practices throughout the district. We can innovate and lead, and we can do it with each student at the center of what we do every day. 3. The impeccable management and governance that our community expects and our students deserve. We never want the governance or fundamentals to be a distraction from our core mission so we have to get the details right including: Coming to closure on our immediate facilities issues including completing our building program, as well as making and implementing decisions regarding Cubberley and new school sites while honoring our community's values of peer streaming and neighborhood schools. Managing our financial resources prudently, Getting the balance between site and centralized decision making right and clearly articulated, Implementing a continuous improvement loop process by which decisions are made, outcomes are evaluated, then updates/corrections are implemented to improve outcomes ensuring we are continuously improving, Ensuring sound and fair personnel management, Ensuring we invite our community's voices to be heard in multiple ways and multiple settings, Providing governance and decision making that is open and transparent and models the behavior we want our students to emulate and that our community deserves.	”
—Terry Godfrey's campaign website (2014)

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See also

• Palo Alto Unified School District, California
• Palo Alto Unified School District elections (2014)

External links

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