Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
Summit Public Schools
Location Redwood City, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female
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Diane Tavenner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Public Schools. Diane founded Summit's flagship school in 2003, and grew the organization into a leader charter network serving California and Washington State. Today, Summit’s graduates are completing four-year college degrees at twice the national average. Newsweek and US
News & World Report have ranked Summit among the top public schools in the nation. In partnership with Facebook, Summit is currently working to scale personalized learning by making its Personalized Learning Plan Platform (PLP) available to schools across the country for free.
Diane serves as the Board Chair of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) representing the majority of California’s 1,100+ charter schools and the California Charter Schools Association Advocates, a political advocacy organization working on behalf of public school students. Diane also serves on the board of Transcend and The Primary School.
Diane is a Member of the Spring 2013 cohort of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship, a leadership program within the Aspen Institute and a fellow in the Broad Academy.
Prior to Summit, Diane was a public school Teacher, Administrator and Leader in traditional urban and suburban public schools throughout California.
Diane holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Southern California and a Master’s degree in Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University.
