Holly Bichlee Glover

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Holly Bichlee Glover
Division Director of Advancement and Partnerships,
Smithsonian Science Education Center

Holly Bichlee Glover is the division director of advancement and partnerships at the Smithsonian Science Education Center, where she leads partnership efforts with donors and funders to support educational equity. She was previously managing director of corporate and foundational partnerships at Teach for America–Bay Area, working in courtship and collaboration with Silicon Valley philanthropic funders. She also co-founded Alpha Public Schools, a network of public charter schools in East San José, California, where she led non-academic operations and raised $1 million to support its launch. Earlier in her career, she was a graduate fellow in the Rocketship Education network at Education Pioneers. Bichlee Glover earned an MA in education policy and leadership from Stanford University.

updated 2025

Contributing topics
Educational governance & policy
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
Publications by Holly Bichlee Glover
At the Forefront of the New Accountability Era: Early Implementation Findings from the CORE Waiver Districts
At the Forefront of the New Accountability Era
Early Implementation Findings from the CORE Waiver Districts
The Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) in California and the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) encourage local control in school accountability. The CORE waiver districts have implemented an innovative measurement system and…