Our next Washington Education Innovation Forum will feature Jen Davis Wickens, Chief Regional Officer for Summit Public Schools, and Sarah Satinover, Summit’s Director of Growth.
Robin Lake
Twitter: @RbnLake
Amazon Author Page: Robin Lake, Author
Robin Lake is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) a non-partisan research and policy analysis organization developing transformative, evidence-based solutions for K–12 public education. Her research focuses on U.S. public school system reforms, including public school choice and charter schools; innovation and scale; portfolio management; and effective state and local public oversight practices.
Lake has authored numerous studies and provided expert testimony and technical assistance on charter schools, district-charter collaborations, and urban school reform. She is the editor of Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs and editor of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools. She co-authored, with Paul Hill, Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education. She has provided invited testimonies to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee as well as various state legislatures.
She presents regularly at conferences and summits around the United States, and has advised on charter school implementation in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Lake serves as a board member or advisor to various organizations, including the Journal of School Choice, the National Center on Special Education in Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Education Next. She was named to the summer 2016 class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program, designed to support exceptional leaders reimagining U.S. public schools.
Lake holds a BA in International Studies and an MPA in Education and Urban Policy from the University of Washington. She currently serves as Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, at the University of Washington Bothell.
11/2017
For Portfolio Supporters, Skeptics, and Would-Be Adopters: Some Thoughts From CRPE
This paper provides an honest assessment of the portfolio strategy’s strengths, weaknesses, and necessary evolution.
04/2017
How States Can Promote Local Innovation, Options, and Problem-Solving in Public Education
State policy should encourage and empower school district innovation and improvement strategies.
01/2017
Bridging the District-Charter Divide to Help More Students Succeed
Based on six years of research, this report explores why a growing number of districts and charter schools are choosing to work together, the costs and benefits of different types of cooperation, and the real impacts of successful collaboration on students and...
01/2017
Encouraging Districts and Charters to Link Arms to Solve Problems
Robin Lake discusses opportunities that states have to support district-charter cooperation in the National Association of State Boards of Education's journal, The State Education Standard.
10/2016
Sticking Points: How School Districts Experience Implementing the Portfolio Strategy
This analysis of trends across portfolio districts shows where cities are making progress on strategy implementation and where they are getting bogged down.
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Washington Education Innovation Forum Presents: Bringing blended learning models to Washington State
Date: Nov 14 2013
Where: UW Medicine at South Lake Union
Date: Oct 22 2013
Where: UW Medicine South Lake Union
The Forum featured former MN State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge, author of the nation's first charter school law, and Shannon Blankenship, tfounder of Hiawatha Academies, a high-performing Minneapolis charter school.
Date: Jul 25 2013
Where: Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Washington, DC
Robin Lake joins several leading education reformers and thinkers for a lively discussion of the accountability opt-out.
Date: Jun 13 2013
Where: Invite Only
This Forum will feature leaders of New York City’s key innovation initiatives. Steven Hodas, Executive Director of Innovate NYC Schools, and Andrea Coleman, Director of iZone, will discuss the role school districts can play in promoting innovation and creating schools of the future.
Date: Apr 28 2013
Where: San Francisco, CA
Several CRPE researchers are presenting at the 2013 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco.
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May 10 2017
Robin Lake is interviewed in this Education Next podcast on school finance.
Apr 29 2017
Robin Lake is quoted in this Houston Chronicle article on Superintendent Richard Carranza's plan to turnaround 32 schools across Houston.
Apr 17 2017
CRPE director Robin Lake is quoted on how the portfolio strategy works in this Education Week piece on 21st century school districts.
Apr 7 2017
CRPE's district-charter collaboration convening is summarized in this Education Week piece.
At Last, a Court Says Kids (Like Mine) With IEPs Deserve a Top Education. But More Fights Loom Ahead
Mar 26 2017
In this Seventy-Four commentary, CRPE director Robin Lake writes about the implications for special education in light of the Supreme Court ruling in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District.
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Nov 5 2018
Robin Lake urges cities to leverage community assets, technology, and networks to improve services and supports for students with special needs.
Oct 16 2018
Regulations of online schools are ripe for experimentation at the state and local levels, writes Robin Lake.
Oct 4 2018
Superintendent Pedro Martinez and his team exemplify the problem-solving mentality of the portfolio strategy, writes Robin Lake.
Aug 29 2018
Robin Lake writes that our public education system must do more to instill the values of civic engagement.
Jul 27 2018
Twenty-five years ago, CRPE was founded on the idea of the school as the locus of change. Today we are reexamining our old assumptions in light of new technical possibilities, changes in the economy, and a recognition that even the most effective schools may need to develop new approaches to
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