A longtime Northern California educational administrator, Steve Betando has held a leadership role with the Morgan Hill Unified School District (USD) since 2012. As superintendent, he has oversight of the full range of educational, recreational, and social activities across the district. During a time of pandemic, Steve Betando has been successful in jump-starting distance learning and hybrid instruction while ensuring that the district adapts to students’ actual learning needs.

Mr. Betando’s background as an educator extends to the mid 1980s, and he served as principal of the Chrysler Elementary School and of the Eisenhut Elementary School within the Stanislaus Union School District in the late 1990s. For his work, he was named Elementary Principal of the Year for the Association of California School Administrators Region VII in 1997. Steve Betando guided school construction projects earning a LEED Gold Standard Building Award and also received the California School Boards Association’s Golden Bell Award for Strategic Planning of District programs.

With Morgan Hill USD, Mr. Betando has implemented a dynamic program that distributes free lunches to students’ homes, at a time when at-school dining is not possible. Active in his professional community, he teaches for the Superintendent Academy and Directs the Personnel Academy regularly as a way of sharing his professional skills and knowledge.