Mindy Fattig

Deputy Executive Director
Areas of Focus:
Statewide System of Support
Geographic Leads
Special Education Resource Leads
SPED EWIG
Mindy Fattig serves as the Deputy Executive Director for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE).

While supporting CCEE Executive Director, Matt Navo, her primary role is leading and supporting the CCEE Center of Transformative Systems for Equitable Educational Outcomes and efforts to build capacity and improve accessibility within the CA Statewide System of Support.

Fattig brings decades of experience in education. Beginning as a paraprofessional for a student with significant needs which led to her love for teaching middle school as a general education and special education teacher. She has created co-teaching inclusive programs which received national and state-wide recognition and was an educational consultant and presenter nationwide on effective program design. Her leadership expertise includes being a site principal in Alternative Education, Director of special education for two county offices of education and SELPA (Special Education Local Plan Area) Executive Director.

Fattig supported over 34 school districts in two counties as well as served on numerous statewide workgroups and advisory panels. Her expertise has led to redesigning mental health programs and services across agencies and focusing on increasing meaningful inclusive practices. She has held the role of Chair for the State SELPA Administrators Association of California, an adjunct Professor at Cal Poly Humboldt, was recognized as the Humboldt County Teacher of the Year and is a published author on differentiation and inclusive practices.