By Brock Gustafson, Steering Committee Vice Chair
This article is a reprint of the Messenger delivered to the D’Evelyn community on Thursday, May 12th, 2022. We are excited to share that Dr. Rob Bishop will be serving as D’Evelyn’s Interim Principal for the 2022-2023 school year. Rob has decades of educational leadership experience and has embraced the D’Evelyn philosophy whole-heartedly. Rob began his leadership experience in 1996, serving as an Assistant Principal for 10 years in the Mapleton and Aurora Public School systems. In Aurora, after initially serving as an Assistant Principal of Rangeview High School starting in 2000, he was promoted to principal, leading a faculty and staff of 102 employees who served a diverse student population of more than 2,100 students. In 2006, wanting to live and work closer to his home in Jefferson County, Rob was named principal of Arvada West High School, a Jeffco high school with 1800 students. Rob served as the principal at A-West for 12 years and pioneered numerous innovative programs including the 1:1 Chromebook program which was adopted district-wide, implementing a later start time and increasing Social/Emotional support for students through adding staff. Rob received his Doctorate in Education from the University of Colorado, Denver in 2013. His focus was “leadership and education equity,” and his dissertation focused on “Eliminating predictable achievement gaps by ensuring that all staff members are prepared to help all students succeed.” Since receiving his Doctorate, Rob has been an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer at CU-Denver’s School of Education and Human Development’s Administrative Licensure and Policy Studies Program. In this capacity, Rob taught curriculum design, lesson development and implementation, and grading. At CU-Denver, he had the opportunity to mentor dozens of principal licensure candidates, many of whom are now principals around the state. After wrapping up 12 years at Arvada West, Rob was named Jeffco’s Executive Director of Administrator Learning. In this capacity, Rob defined a district-wide Educator Learning plan to include parallel learning opportunities for school and central based administrators that aligned with teacher learning. This included teacher and leader career pathway programs, teacher and principal Learning Labs, developing monthly leadership learning, and beginning / end of year all-leadership learning events. Rob officially retired in 2021, but as he likes to say, he “failed retirement,” and has been doing consulting work for Jeffco Schools since retiring, serving as a school leadership coach at various locations within the Jeffco school system. In this role he works directly with principals and school leadership teams to assess and enhance leadership team effectiveness. Dr. Bishop has been married to his wife, Wendy, for 13 years and they are proud of their blended family that includes three daughters, Laura, Jill, and Mackenzie, and son Michael. He attributes their success as young adults to the many skilled teachers and quality education they were privileged to have throughout their K-12 education. Rob and Wendy most enjoy their new roles as grandparents to Owen, Rory, and Taylor. Rob is a Colorado native who loves his hometown sports teams and enjoys keeping fit and active through a variety of outdoor activities such as cycling, running, hiking, golf, snowshoeing, and skiing. We are honored that Rob chose to apply for the interim role and even more honored that he has chosen to lead our school for the next school year. With his decades of experience, Rob will be a wonderful resource for students, faculty and staff. We are excited to see what we all can achieve together in 2022-2023! Comments are closed.
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