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
When a colleague at another urban high school commented to me that because his students needed more structure, he no longer employs project-based learning, I replied that his decision presumes that PBL is unstructured.
Read More.Recently, a nationally recognized expert in classroom management visited the campuses of Envision Schools to help coach our teachers. Though he had plenty of advice about how we can make our learning environments more structured so...
Read More.This is a guest posting from my colleague, Kyle Hartung, who has worked in small schools for ten years as a classroom teacher and instructional leader in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. As part of the Leadership and Instructional Team at Envision Schools, he coaches and...
Read More.Today, Envision Schools kicked off its fifth school year by opening a new school in Hayward, California, called Impact Academy. Our three other California schools -- City Arts and Tech and Metropolitan Arts and Tech, in San Francisco, and Oakland's Envision Academy -- started the school year,...
Read More.A quote by experiential-education pioneer Kurt Hahn projects brightly onto a large screen: "We are crew, not passengers." After a brief welcome, the thirty-five new teachers at Envision...
Read More.On June 16, 2007, Envision Schools, a nonprofit organization that manages charter schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, held its first commencement for its flagship school, the Marin School of Arts and Technology. This...
Read More.What does it mean to be college ready? How do you design schools, and the systems to support them, to reach the goal of preparing all students to graduate from college?
What does it mean to be college ready? How do you design schools, and the systems to support them, to reach the goal of...
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