Sonia Diaz
sonia_diaz@mvsdk8.org
Executive Assistant to the Superintendent
All inquires for the Superintendent should go to Sonia Diaz.
Our students attend high school at Colony High School. We cooperate closely with our partners at Colony.
Nuestros estudiantes asisten secundaria a Colony. Cooperamos estrechamente con nuestros colegas de Colony.
Superintendent
Dr. Douglass Moss has a passion for learning. He has a life long appreciation for culture, communication and public education. Dr. Moss was raised in Northern California, Oregon and Austria. He attended San Francisco State University where he trained to be a high school teacher for Social Studies and German. He attended graduate and post graduate studies at Saint Cloud State University, Azusa Pacific University and Victoria University as well as academies in Mexico and Chile. He focused his graduate studies on communication sciences, socio-linguistics and cultural studies.
Dr. Moss started his career as a medical speech language pathologist in the VA Hospital system in Saint Cloud and Fort Snelling treating injured veterans with neurologic issues from the first Gulf War. He shifted to education and served as a speech language pathologist and bilingual literacy and dyslexia specialist (Spanish/English) in San Bernardino City Unified School District before moving into administration in the areas of special education, literacy and language development.
Dr. Moss has served Mountain View School District since 1999 in a variety of special education teaching and leadership roles. Dr. Moss is committed to serving our South Ontario community and to representing our district on the local, regional and state level. Dr. Moss believes that an outstanding TK – 8 education serves as the foundation for all future successes since it teaches students to be curious, tenacious, kind and engaged. Dr. Moss strives to create school environments that are inclusive, diverse, tolerant, welcoming, safe and conducive to individual innovation and inspiration. These environments should adapt with the student over their educational experience in Mountain View School District and create competent, curious and engaged contributors to their community and world.
Dr. Moss has traveled to more than 80 countries and 6 continents. He loves languages, music, travel, the visual arts, nature and cooking.
Dr. Moss is proud to lead Mountain View School District.
"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, taste it, experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt
