Superintendent
Superintendent's Office
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Meet your Superintendent
Dr. Carmen García was born in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, México, and grew up in Southern California
where she took full advantage of her K-12 education. Subsequently, she attended the
University of San Diego where she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in History and Spanish. Dr. García often notes that her interest in teaching was sparked by
wonderful professors and teachers who supported and believed in her to succeed. With the
motivation to teach, she earned a Master’s Degree and a teaching credential.
Dr. García began teaching in the Long Beach Unified School District—an experience that
remains one of the most gratifying of her career. Teaching is where her passion for student
success took hold and, as a result, she began to immerse herself in academic literature and
found the motivation to pursue graduate study and received her Doctorate from the University
of Southern California.
Dr. García’s twenty-seven-year career has allowed her to observe and participate in the
educational sphere from the perspective of a Teacher, Researcher, Assistant to Superintendent
Dr. Carl Cohn, Principal of an International Baccalaureate Middle School, Lead Principal of three
high schools, and Superintendent.
Throughout her career, Dr. García has worked tirelessly to enhance and collaboratively co-
create educational systems via coherence, alignment, and strategic planning to bring together
district/community educational partners—teachers, staff members, school leaders, parents,
students, and community members—to ensure that students remain at the forefront as they
are met at their point of need and propelled into the future of their dreams. She often
describes this as the “I Plus One” where each and every student is provided the opportunities,
support, and resources needed to excel to their highest level of potential.
She remains steadfast in her belief that a quality education is the world’s greatest equalizer
that opens many doors of opportunity. Her moral compass guides her to ensure that school
systems provide access and equity for all students to prepare them to be successful, productive
members of society. Through the power of teacher and staff input and collaboration, student
and parent engagement, the empowerment of student and parent voice, and her deep
commitment to making a difference in the lives of every student, every single day, Dr. García is
now in her 4th year leading the Morgan Hill Unified School District into its next chapter of
excellence.
Together with her husband, Dr. Gabriel Gutiérrez, Director of Special Education, they have
three children, Sophía, Emma, and Sebastián.
