Jaime Aquino sees himself in the students of SAISD. “It’s really me, the kids who sit in the classrooms,” he said. “I think my journey of life is probably very similar to many of them.”
Aquino’s journey as an immigrant and a teacher uniquely prepared him for his next role as superintendent of SAISD, several board members said. In his 35 years in education, Aquino, 57, has served as a teacher, chief academic officer and deputy superintendent in some of the largest school districts in the country.
“The way bilingual education was created in this country in the 1960s was from a compensatory mindset. It was to fix, and bilingualism is not a handicap but an asset to humanity,” he said. “I think all students, not only language minority students, but all students have the opportunity to become bilingual or why not multilingual.”
“It’s really me, the kids who sit in the classrooms,” he said. “I think my journey of life is probably very similar to many of them.” Eventually, other opportunities lured Aquino out of the classroom. From 2000 to 2005, he served as an administrator at Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut and then instructional superintendent for the New York City Department of Education. In October 2005, he started working as chief academic officer for Denver Public Schools, where he stayed until October 2009. He also served as deputy superintendent for Los Angeles Unified School District from June 2011 to January 2014.
From April 2020 to July 2021, he served as senior vice president of Discovery Education, a K-12 digital curriculum provider, working with districts to support virtual instruction during the early days of the pandemic. Since then, he’s worked as a consultant for Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado and a charter school network in New York City.
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