About me
Dr. LuzElena Perez is Santa Rosa City School's Educational Services Secondary Executive Director. She has been an educator for over 26 years. Her focus and research have been on Long Term English Learners. LuzElena has lived a dual cultural and linguistic life between Colombia and California. Her doctoral dissertation was completed in 2011 and was one of the first studies on LTELs using student voice methodology. She has been a classroom teacher, instructional coach, principal, district level director for State and Federal programs and English Learner programs, Assistant Superintendent of C&I, adjunct professor at Cal State San Marcos and UCSD, Educational Programs Consultant at the CDE working on the ELPAC and California Spanish Assessment. She is a mother to two amazing daughters and has been blissfully married for 23 years to Dr. Dennis Perez.
