May 8, 2018
Bob Lenz became Executive Director of the Buck
Institute for Education (BIE) on June 1, 2015. Before taking the
helm at BIE, he was the co-founder of Envision Education and served
as its CEO and Chief of Innovation until 2015. Under Bob’s
leadership, Envision Education put into practice a highly
successful redesign model that has opened a path to college and
college retention for underserved urban students at Envision’s
three Bay Area arts and technology high schools.
Bob also launched Envision Learning Partners. Envision Learning
Partners fulfills the original promise of charter schools to serve
as demonstration sites for innovative educational practices to
transform the broader public school system. Envision Learning
Partners works with schools, districts and networks of schools
across the country as they adopt the Envision Schools College and
Career Ready Student Performance Assessment System.
He is recognized nationally as a leader in high school redesign,
Project Based Learning, 21st century skills education, and
performance assessment. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
has recognized Bob as a Senior Deeper Learning Fellow. He is the
author of Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning,
Performance Assessment and Common Core Standards, recently
published by Jossey-Bass Wiley.
Previously, as a teacher Bob founded Academy X, an award-winning
leadership and humanities program at Sir Francis Drake High School
in San Anselmo, California. In 1999, Drake High was named one of
thirteen New American High Schools by U.S. Secretary of Education
Richard Riley. In 2000, the school was featured on the cover of
U.S. News & World Report as an example of successful high
school reform.
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