Carly Robinson

Carly Robinson is a Senior Researcher at Stanford and the Director of Research for the SCALE Initiative. Her research interests sit at the intersection of education, psychology, and policy. In particular, she focuses on how we can disrupt systemic inequities by ensuring students have positive relationships with adults who are equipped to support them. To date her work has focused on strengthening educator-student relationships, mobilizing effective family engagement, deploying tutors effectively, and leveraging generative AI to support educators. As a complement to her applied research, her methodological work emphasizes open science practices, such as preregistering hypothesis-testing studies.

Prior to conducting educational research, Carly worked as a New York City teacher. She holds a PhD in Education from Harvard University, a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and BA in Psychology from Williams College. Before Stanford, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University.