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Stephen Fink Affiliate Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Director, Center for Educational Leadership 9709 3rd Avenue N.E., Suite 306 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98115 finks@u.washington.edu

Education Publications Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Fink has had extensive experience working with numerous school districts focusing on the school district as the unit of change – particularly on developing systems level leadership capacity for eliminating the achievement gap. His current work at the Center for Educational Leadership includes developing school district leadership capacity to dramatically improve the quality of instruction in every school and in every classroom.

Dr. Fink has also served for many years as a senior consultant for the Panasonic Foundation’s urban school district partnership program. In his work with Panasonic, Dr. Fink has focused on systems reform in numerous medium and large urban school districts across the country. His teaching and research interests include school and school district leadership, systems change, and the academic achievement gap.

Education

Ed.D., Brigham Young University, 1984

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."