Dr. Johnny AlvaradoNational Time To Teach Trainer
Thirty years in Central Valley schools as the teacher, the principal, and the one who had to make training stick. Now he trains teachers and school leaders in Time To Teach®, the classroom management system from the Center for Teacher Effectiveness.
A management system so consistent and predictable that consequences teach instead of escalate. A classroom set up so students meet expectations the first time. Strategies you can use the next school day.
Dr. Johnny Alvarado grew up in Sanger, California, and started teaching middle and high school in Sanger Unified in 1995. He has been a principal in Clovis Unified and Fresno Unified, at Kastner Intermediate School and Bullard High School. He was director of charter schools and an executive leadership coach at the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, chief academic officer at Selma Unified, and assistant superintendent at Parlier Unified.
He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration (accountancy) and a master's degree and doctorate in educational leadership, all at Fresno State. Before and between those degrees he worked early mornings at UPS, tutored math, ran his own yard care business, and worked in the Central Valley's fields. He is the oldest of six, and all six went into education.
Johnny brings confidence, laughter, and best of all, practical solutions to his fellow teachers.
Today he trains teachers and administrators in Time To Teach®, the classroom management system from the Center for Teacher Effectiveness, and he is one of the authors of its Planning Guide, the workbook a leadership team uses to build its school-wide plan. He has trained throughout the United States and in Canada.
What he brings to a training is the administrator's view that teachers rarely hear: what changes a whole building, what falls apart the week after the presenter leaves, and how one classroom becomes the proof. His sessions come down to three things: a management system so consistent and predictable that consequences teach instead of escalate, a classroom set up so students meet expectations the first time, and strategies teachers can use the next school day.
Every tool practiced out loud before anyone leaves the room.
Middle and high school in the town he grew up in. Over the years he also taught elementary school and at the college level. The rooms where he learned what a management system has to do on a Tuesday in November.
Kastner Intermediate School, and later Bullard High School. The principal's side of discipline: one plan every adult uses, and what happens to a staff when there is not one.
Director of charter schools and executive leadership coach at the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools. Chief academic officer at Selma Unified. Assistant superintendent at Parlier Unified, where he brought Time To Teach to the district's own staff.
Training teachers and school leaders throughout the United States and in Canada, on site and in live seminars. One of the authors of the Planning Guide a leadership team uses on Day 2 of the 2+1 to build its school's plan.
This was the best logical presentation on discipline I've had in twenty-three years of teaching. I have practical ideas I can use immediately. He demonstrated great knowledge of classroom practices, management, and what life is actually like in the classroom. So few do.
"One of the most immediately useful workshops I've taken. Even after 20 years."
"I've never seen anything like this. You get tools you can apply the very next day."
For K-12 schools and districts ready to give their teachers a day that changes Monday morning. Available across the United States, and at the Denver seminar on February 27, 2027.