Vice President Dean E. Vogel brings unique skills to the CTA leadership team with his broad background as a public school teacher and counselor at the elementary and higher education levels.
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Dean E. Vogel
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As CTA secretary-treasurer for four years, he oversaw the association’s budget and expenditures. During the 2005 special election campaign, he appeared in numerous debates and rallies, did media interviews and walked precincts with state education leaders, talking to voters about the dangers of the initiatives on the ballot.
Vogel’s teaching and counseling career spans 34 years. He has taught all elementary grades, including kindergarten, and has trained counselors and student teachers.
He understands educators and their needs. Since 1990, Vogel has worked as an elementary school counselor in the Vacaville Unified School District in Solano County. He speaks out strongly about the impact of California having the fewest counselors per student of any public school system in the nation.
In Vacaville, he was a counselor’s counselor. As a master counselor for university field study students, he trained many pupils who went on to become school counselors. He helped to develop a unique community counseling center that was housed on the campus of a Vacaville elementary school, where it served students and the public.
For his commitment to counselors, he was named “Advocate of the Year” by the California Association of School Counselors in 2006.
He’s also taught extended education courses at three California State University campuses in Sacramento, Sonoma, and Hayward, and at the University of California at Davis. In addition, he spent 10 years as a resident teacher in the University of California Teacher Education Program, working with student teachers and helping the university develop its program for pre-service and in-service educators.
His counseling work was preceded by a teaching career of some 18 years in Vacaville, where he was named a local teacher of the year and was one of the first mentor teachers in Vacaville Unified.
Vogel has served in a variety of positions within CTA. His activism with the Vacaville Teachers Association included three years as president. He was elected to the statewide CTA Board of Directors in 1996, representing 20,000 educators in nine Northern California counties.
A graduate of public schools, Vogel was born in Idaho and grew up in Chino in Southern California. He earned a bachelor of science degree in social sciences from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and received his elementary teaching credential from UC Davis. At CSU-Sacramento, he earned a master’s in education/group dynamics and a pupil personnel services credential.
He lives in Davis in Yolo County with his wife, Nancy Hiestand, who is a teacher in the Vacaville district, where the two educators met on the job. Vogel has three grown daughters and five grandchildren.
Contacting Dean E. Vogel
California Teachers Association
P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
Phone: (650) 552-5307
FAX: (650) 552-5007
E-mail: dvogel@cta.org