RESUME - Home | UW College of Education



Stephen Fink, Ed.D.

Office

Center for Educational Leadership Telephone: (206) 221-6877

University of Washington FAX: (206) 221-6774

College of Education

9709 3rd Avenue NE, Suite 306

Seattle, WA 98115

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

1984. Doctor of Education, Educational Administration

Brigham Young University

David O. McKay School of Education

Provo, Utah

1978. Master of Arts, Special Education

California State University Northridge

Northridge, California

1974. Bachelor of Arts, Political Science with an emphasis in public administration

University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Executive Director, Affiliate Associate Professor

Center for Educational Leadership

College of Education

University of Washington, 2000 - present

The Center for Educational Leadership is a self-sustaining entity within the university providing an array of programs and services for superintendents, district administrators, principals and teacher leaders. In addition, the Center maintains comprehensive partnerships with ten school districts with the aim of building the systems level leadership capacity necessary to eliminate the achievement gap. The Center’s annual budget is approximately $4,500,000 of fee for service revenue, with 13 full and part time staff, along with 35 contracted coaches. Responsibilities include providing overall leadership direction for the Center; management of day-to-day operations, including program development, school district partnership development, budget and finance, and marketing; executive leadership coaching for superintendents and district administrators; and, serving as a faculty member in the College of Education, area of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

• Senior Program Consultant

Panasonic Foundation, 1989 - Present

Partnership work involves providing direct technical assistance to superintendents, school board members and teacher union leaders with the aim of whole system improvement. Specific work has included school board development, and executive leadership coaching of superintendents, union leaders, principals and community leaders. Prior work with the Foundation includes serving as the chief designer and coordinator of the Leadership Associates Program which provides advanced leadership training for the Foundation's nine partner districts. Consulting work with the Foundation has included work in urban school systems including, Norwalk-LaMirada, CA, Minneapolis, San Diego, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Englewood, N.J., Allentown, PA, Broward County, FL, Norristown, PA. Advise and edit a variety of Foundation publications.

• Assistant Superintendent

Edmonds School District, 1991- 2000

Responsibilities included providing direct leadership and supervision (area superintendent) for a region of K-12 schools; leadership and facilitation for all elementary schools; and, direct supervision of student services programs which included special education, Title I, bilingual, early childhood; psychological, health and child care services. Leadership accomplishments included transforming a large school district into a standards driven system where increasing numbers of students met higher standards. This was accomplished through extensive work coaching and mentoring building principals, creating learning communities for building and central office leaders, and working with the school board and external community stakeholders.

• Faculty

Nova Southeastern University, Doctoral Program in Child and Youth Studies,

1996 - 1999

Responsibilities included teaching the specialization course for second year doctoral students in the area of systemic change. Assisted in the development of course curriculum and specialization content.

• Executive Director for Special Programs

Edmonds School District, 1984 - 1991

Responsibilities included leadership and supervision of special education, state categorical programs, and federal programs. Extensive work with the state legislature developing legislation promoting integrated program delivery.

• Adjunct Faculty

Graduate School of Business and Management, Chapman College, 1986-1988

Responsibilities included teaching M.B.A. core classes in Organizational Theory and Behavior. Developed seminars in Leadership and Organizational Change.

• Elementary School Principal

Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, 1981-84

Responsibilities included providing instructional and curricular leadership for the total educational programs of handicapped students ages 2-13. Supervision and evaluation responsibilities for approximately 30 certificated and classified staff.

• Secondary Special Education Teacher

Idaho State School for the Deaf and Blind, 1978-81

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Washington State Professional Education Certificate, Continuing Administrator, P-12 Principal; Superintendent

Washington State Professional Education Certificate, Continuing K-8 Teacher; Continuing Special Education Teacher

PUBLICATIONS

• Fink, S., and Silverman, M. October 2008 Education Week “The Not So Inevitable Failure of High School Conversions”

• New Horizons for Learning Journal, Fall 2003, “The Courage to Lead an Equity Agenda.”

• New Horizons for Learning Journal, Spring 2002, “Beyond the Rhetoric of the Achievement Gap.”

• Teaching and Change, April 2001, "Standards and Whole System Change."

• Educational Leadership, October 1992, "How We Restructured Our Categorical

Programs."

• Washington Association of School Principals News, Winter/Spring 1993-94,

"Are You Serious About Change?"

• Changing Schools: Insights, Papers prepared at the request of the Office of Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education, 1992, "Restructuring Categorical Programs for Low Performing and Handicapped Students."

• Strategies For School System Leaders on District-Level Change, September 1994, AASA/Panasonic Foundation Publication, "Building Labor and Management Coalitions," editor for the section on Edmonds, WA, "Abiding by Stand-Alone Principles."

• Strategies For School System Leaders on District-Level Change, July 1997,

AASA/Panasonic Foundation Publication, "Powerful Connections: Clustering Schools

and Networking Districts," editor for the section on Edmonds, WA, "The Mantra Is Keep It Simple."

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Organizations include:

Washington Educational Research Association; Association for Supervision and

Curriculum Development; Washington Association of School Principals; Washington

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; Association of California

School Administrators; University of Washington Policy Makers Exchange; Rapides

Foundation Educational Leaders Program; Washington Association of School

Administrators; New Mexico Association for the Severely Handicapped; National

Association of Vocational Special Needs Personnel; Washington Association of

Counselor Educators; Washington Council for Exceptional Children; Idaho Association

of School Administrators; San Diego Unified School District; Los Angeles Unified

School District Public Education Partnership; Panasonic Foundation Leadership Associates Program; Harvest Foundation Educational Leaders Program; Washington State School Directors Association; California School Boards Association; Education Trust National Conference; National School Boards Association; Orchard Foundation Superintendents’ Leadership Network; International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement; Council of Great City Schools; American Association of School Administrators

Topics/Titles Include:

• Improving learning focused leadership: Opportunities through partnership

• Developing district-wide expertise to lead for instructional improvement

• What it really means to lead for instructional improvement

• Characteristics of schools that are closing the achievement gap

• Attributes of school districts that are closing the achievement gap

• Conditions for gap closing instruction

• Attributes of high performing systems

• Adaptive Leadership: Bridging the gap between values and beliefs and current reality

• Systems Thinking: From icebergs to doom loops

• Creating learning organizations

• Shared Decision Making

• Building Labor/Management Coalitions

• Public engagement and accountability

• Building an infrastructure for standards based education

• Integrating Programs for Low Performing and Handicapped Students

• Creating a label free environment

• Personality and temperament styles as a vehicle for site based

management

BOARDS AND ADVISORY COUNCILS

• Council of Great City Schools, Achievement Gap Task Force

• Board of Directors, Source Child Center (Past)

• South Snohomish County Chamber of Commerce Education Committee (Past)

• Shoreline Community College, Training Programs for Learning Disabilities (Past)

• Washington Association of School Administrators, Resolutions Chair (Past)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Educational Research Association

• Council of Great City Schools

• Washington Association of School Administrators

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

• Phi Delta Kappa

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download