Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Envision Schools. For the past 20 years, Bob has served schools as a teacher, student activities director, reform leader and principal. In the 1990’s, Bob was a leader in Sir Francis Drake High School’s (San Anselmo, CA) whole school redesign effort. Under Bob’s leadership, Drake was named a “New American High School” (1 of 13 in 1999) by Secretary of Education, Richard Riley and featured on the cover of US News and World Report as an example of high school reform that works. He is recognized nationally as a leader in high school redesign, project-based learning, 21st Century skills education and performance assessment. Envision Schools’ education model has opened a path to college access and success for underserved urban students at Envision’s four Bay Area college prep high schools.
Bob was the first in his family to receive a college degree, obtaining a B.A. from St. Mary's College and a M.A. in Education from San Francisco State University. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Buck Institute for Education and on the Advisory Council for the St. Mary’s College School of Education.
Blog Posts
I am excited to announce that Envision Schools is now Envision Education. Envision Education encompasses our schools division, with our four high-performing college prep schools in the Bay Area, as well as our consulting division...
Read More.Aloha! This past year, our new division, Envision Learning Partners, has been partnering with educators in Hawaii to bring education, Envision Style, to the youth of the islands.
Aloha! This past year, our new...
Read More.Social media has been in a buzz with David McCullough Jr.'s Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts: "You're not special!" If you have not read it yet, here is a brief overview from...
Read More.I am very grateful for all teachers -- early childhood, elementary, middle, and college. But the world I know best is the work of high school teachers. If you add it up, the average high school teacher works about 70 hours per week and this is just the "business" side of the job.
Read More.Day after day,
Alone on a hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool,
And he never gives an answer,
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
...
When do you start a movement? How do you start a movement? What happens when things actually move? These questions and more have been swirling in my head since the gathering of the Deeper Learning Network Community of Practice at High Tech High last week in San Diego.
Read More.In a past Edutopia post, I asked the question, is blended learning worth the hype? I promised to ask the same question of the aspiring school administrators in the Technology in Leading and Managing course I am teaching at St....
Read More."How do I assess 170 students deeply?" -- Middle School Teacher
"We love project-based learning but when will we get time to plan with our colleagues?" -- Union Leader
... Read More.A new social media tool is launching called The Hype that allows you to rate whether a movie, event, music person, place or product -- you name it -- is worth the hype or not.
Read More.Our Deeper Learning Blog Carnival concludes today with a post from Kathleen Cushman that recaps the Deeper Learning Community of Practice meeting held in the Bay Area last week. While the carnival is ending the conversations will endure... please, join in...
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