Marcus Jackson is an Executive Leadership Coach at the South County SELPA with the Equity and Disproportionality Project.  He supports school districts with Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Culture/Climate and School-Wide Information System (SWIS).  His advocacy started as an educational advisor for a federally funded program by assisting first-generation college bound students and families with postsecondary education and financial-aid training.  He has served as a School Psychologist with the Elementary, Middle and High School populations.  In addition, he has worked with students in alternative settings from kindergarten through twelfth grade.  Marcus has been a school principal at the alternative and comprehensive school sites where his teams implemented PBIS, social emotional learning, mentorships and leadership groups within the schools to develop and maintain a positive culture.  He has worked as an adjunct professor at two San Diego universities, to ensure that school psychology graduate students were able to develop a diverse counseling curriculum and the skills required to best prepare them for success when assessing students, by viewing the “whole child” from her/his home, school and community environments.