Credit: Lillian Mongeau/EdSource Today

Deb Sigman at the 2022 EdSource Symposium.

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/EdSource Today

Deb Sigman at the 2022 EdSource Symposium.

Deb Sigman, the California Section of Educational activity deputy director who is overseeing the state's switch to a new, online testing organisation, is leaving the department to become an ambassador at the Rocklin Unified Schoolhouse Commune in Placer Canton.

Sigman's last day at the state education department is July xi. She starts her new chore equally deputy superintendent of educational services in the 12,000-student Rocklin district on July xiv.

"I am really yearning to go back to district-level work and to work closely with teachers and students as we implement all the corking things that are going on," Sigman said. The Common Cadre State Standards, new student testing systems, and the changes to school budgets under the Local Command Funding Formula are exciting opportunities, Sigman said.

"In my part here, it's been on a policy level," she said. "Only where you implement that, where the piece of work kind of gets done is downwards at the district level and the school. I've missed that and I would like to get back to that."

Sigman will continue to serve as co-chair of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Executive Commission. The committee is overseeing the switch from the old-fashioned newspaper-and-pencil bubble tests to computerized tests aligned to the Mutual Core Country Standards.

Remaining in that role will maintain consistency every bit the testing is being rolled out, Sigman said, and she doesn't look her role will alter in the switch from a land-level to a district-level administrator.

Sigman was an ambassador in the Sacramento City and Elk Grove unified school districts before she joined the California Department of Pedagogy in 2004. She currently oversees student testing, educational data and charter schools, among other areas.

"Deb'south passion and expertise nigh education in California has been a huge boon to our students as we make our fashion through Common Cadre implementation, transitioning to modern new assessments, and a host of other improvements," said State Superintendent of Public Education Tom Torlakson in a statement. "Nosotros volition miss her sorely, but wish her all the all-time in her new position."

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