Linda has worked as a community leader and advocate for charter schools in San Carlos since 1996. She was deeply involved at the San Carlos Charter Learning Center (SCCLC) serving as a leader in the school¹s innovative seminar program for project-based learning as well as helping create their Personalized Learning Plan program.

Since the SCCLC serves only K-8 students, it became clear there was a need and demand for a charter high school in San Carlos. Against almost insurmountable odds and after nearly 3 years of planning and politicking by Linda and her colleagues, San Carlos Charter High School opened in the fall of 2003.

In 2004, Ms. Stevenin joined the school¹s administrative staff and helped secure numerous grants to keep the dream alive during those start-up years.

When it became apparent that substantial additional resources were needed for long term survival, she prepared the business plan to forge a partnership with High Tech High, a successful and well-funded group of charter schools in San Diego.

The school is now known as High Tech High Bayshore http://bayshore.hightechhigh.org/ All High Tech High schools are public charter schools with significant additional philanthropic support from private entities such as the Gates Foundation. High Tech High Bayshore has just moved into a beautiful new facility in Redwood City that will serve current and future students for many years to come.

Come hear the story of Linda¹s journey from parent volunteer and charter school advocate to a community organizer and administrator on the wild frontier of educational reform.

Linda Stevenin received her B.A. in Education and Organizational Studies from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA in 1978. She is a licensed architect and in 2001, Ms. Stevenin left CAS Architects, where she had been a principal and business owner, to pursue graduate work in education. Ms. Stevenin is currently completing an M.A. in Education at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA.