Workshops, exercises, and participant-led discussions on many key Portfolio Strategy topics.
Christine Campbell
Christine Campbell

Twitter: @ccamp67
Christine Campbell is a Senior Research Analyst and Policy Director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE). She leads the Center’s Portfolio School Districts Project, which explores emerging reforms in leading districts. She convenes the Project’s twice-yearly meetings of an expanding network of portfolio districts and advises districts on how to assess and improve their efforts. She has researched and analyzed district-wide reforms and the role of superintendent leadership and central office operations, and has written teaching cases for The Broad Institute for School Boards. Ms. Campbell has led work on school choice and the charter sector, studying the ways districts and traditional public schools can respond to competition. She is an expert on charter school leadership, from recruitment and training to retention and succession planning. Ms. Campbell is on the board of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network, which links state education advocacy organizations with national experts in policy development, and she served as a reviewer for the federal Race to the Top Competition. She is co-author with Paul Hill of It Takes A City (Brookings Press) and co-author of an up-coming book on portfolio districts and the changing education landscape. She is the author of numerous reports and commentaries and a regular presenter at national education research conferences. Prior to joining CRPE, she was a GED Coordinator for teen parents at Rainier Vista Housing Project and a job skills trainer at the Seattle Indian Center. She also worked at Starbucks when they numbered just a few quaint neighborhood cafes.
Ms. Campbell holds a B.A. in English from Villanova University and an M.P.A. from the University of Washington.
| 02/2013 |
Portfolio Strategies, Relinquishment, The Urban School System of the Future, and Smart Districts
This brief outlines how new K-12 public education governance proposals--relinquishment, smart districts, and the urban school system of the future--are complements, not alternatives, to... |
| 12/2012 |
Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies For Managing Urban Schools
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| 10/2012 |
Portfolio School Districts in Transition: Steering Through Uncharted Waters
The seventh Portfolio School District Network meeting was held in Seattle, WA, in July 2012. Sixteen district teams—made up of superintendents, chief operations officers, chief academic... |
| 09/2012 |
Principal Concerns: Leadership Data and Strategies for States
Discussions about human capital and school improvement typically center on teachers, not administrators. This report argues that principals are a critical part of federal and state education reform efforts but that current state-level practices are... |
| 09/2012 |
BRIEF - Principal Concerns: Leadership Data and Strategies for States
This brief summarizes a more detailed report that offers a set of powerful new tools to help state policymakers diagnose their principal workforce needs and develop comprehensive strategies to address them. |
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Please save the date for the 9th Network Meeting. It will be held July 9th-11th in Seattle, Washington, and will focus on the intersection of choice and accountability.
Several CRPE researchers are presenting at the 2013 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco.
The next Portfolio School District Network meeting will be held in Nashville, TN January 29-31, 2013.
Workshops, exercises, and participant-led discussions on many key Portfolio Strategy topics.
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CRPE Policy Director Christine Campbell discussed school autonomy on Minneapolis Public Radio.
CRPE.org named one of TED's "100 websites you should know and use."
News about school reform often comes with tales of conflict, which is an inevitable byproduct of efforts to develop more effective schools.
Seattle, WA - Discussions about human capital and school improvement typically center on teachers. Yet the principals who select those teachers are a critical driver of school success.
Seattle, WA - A growing network of school districts and education leaders embracing a portfolio management strategy is poised to be one of the most important groups in education reform in the country.
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The US Department of Education has released details of its latest funding competition, Race to the Top-District.
