Dr. Renae Bryant

Dr. Renae Bryant serves as the Director of Plurilingual Services at Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) in Anaheim, California where she works collaboratively with scholars, staff, families and community to build systems and processes  to increase student access, opportunity, equity and success through the Plurilingual, World Languages, and Spanish and Vietnamese Dual Language Immersion (DLI) programs. Dr. Bryant led teams to successfully move AUHSD out of ATSI. Previously at Westminster School District, Renae led a team to implement the first Vietnamese DLI  program in California, which was awarded the California School Board Associations Golden Bell in 2017 and at AUHSD the first secondary Vietnamese DLI program in the United State,  which is a CTE program with a partnership with Amazon Future Engineers.. At AUHSD she has nominated and earned California School Board Association Golden Bell Awards in her department for: 2019 AUHSD Dual Language Immersion Programs, 2019 AUHSD Summer Language Academy, and 2022 AUHSD Saturday Language Academy. She is a successful grant writer with over one million dollars in professional development grants written. She is the founder and facilitator of the Leadership Book Chat and leads national book studies featuring expert speakers leading the learning on such books as: Leading While Female, Ready For Anything, How Women Rise, The Unfinished Leader, Evolving Learner, She Leads and Leading Change Through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency. She is the Past President of the California Association of Bilingual Education (CABE) Riverside Chapter President, serves as the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Region 17 President Elect of Public Relations and is the Chair of the ACSA Urban Education Committee. In the summer she serves as an adjunct professor at CSUF for the EdD Program where she teaches the Organizational Theory course. With over twenty years in education, Renae has served as a district, site and teacher leader, administrator coach, and started her career as a bilingual special education instructional assistant. She co-hosts The EdBranding Podcast and has a book with a similar title published in 2024 with DBC Inc. with co-author and co-host Lynette White.

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Dr. Bryant  earned her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne in 2017 and completed ACSA Superintendents Academy, AASA/USC Urban Superintendents Academy, the AASA Aspiring Female Superintendents Academy, Stanford EdLEADers Program and is currently in the Azusa Pacific University Next Generation Superintendents Academy.