Amalia Cudeiro

Ed.D. USP

A senior executive with Focus On Results, Amalia Cudeiro was most recently one of five deputy superintendents for the Boston Public Schools, where her primary responsibilities included recruitment, selection, training, professional development, supervision, and evaluation of principals, headmasters, directors, and cluster leaders.

During her tenure in the Boston Public Schools, Cudeiro was instrumental in the development and implementation of the school district's Principal Evaluation and Accountability Process.

Additionally, in collaboration with the Center for Leadership Development, she engaged in the creation and implementation of a professional development program for current principals and a principal preparation program to hire and train new principal leaders.

Cudeiro served for many years as a principal in California public school systems, in the Santa Monica and Baldwin Park school districts. Later, after completing her doctorate at Harvard University, she was one of only eight selected nationally to study in Harvard's Urban Superintendents Program.

Born in Cuba and educated in Spain through high school, Cudeiro completed all of her university work in the United States and possesses the strengths of being fully bilingual and biliterate, with special sensitivity and experience in issues of valuing diversity and bilingual education.