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
How would you reimagine education? Last week, I attended a Reimagining Education Summit with innovators from multiple sectors (K-12 education, tech, higher education, government, youth development, makers, and more) sponsored by the...
Read More.How do you inspire teachers and school leaders to transform their practice when they have only read about or watched a video about the change they hope to implement?
Read More.I co-authored this commentary with Ken Kay, the chief executive officer of EdLeader21, a network of school and district leaders based in Tucson, Ariz. He was the...
Read More.Recently, I listened to a story on NPR's All Things Considered called "'Serendipitous Interaction' Key To Tech Firms' Workplace Design"...
Read More.Each January, I have the opportunity to facilitate a course in Leading and Managing Technology for the Educational Leadership Program at St. Mary's College of California. We organize our learning by exploring the question, "Is educational technology worth the hype?" Together we read...
Read More.Is it possible to systemically embed deeper learning outcomes for students?
Read More.In my last post, I discussed how schools and systems can use a different and more powerful type of accountability to drive intrinsic motivation for high performance by...
Read More.How do we foster intrinsic motivation, for both teachers and students, to work towards high performance? Can we create a system of accountability that will drive this performance? At Envision Education, we answer with a resounding,...
Read More.In my post, How an Ocean's Journey Inspires One School, I highlighted the worldwide voyage of the Hokule'a, a replica of an ancient double-hulled voyaging canoe and encouraged teachers and students to follow the...
Read More.I learned that you can lie and people will believe you. -- Greg, an eleventh grade student.
This statement would shock most people but his teachers were proud. Greg, a student at Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco (an Envision School), and his...
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