Steven Mcgriff, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, United States

Senior leader and advisor for Valley Christian Schools (VCS) on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.Primary responsibility is to develop and lead biblical unity programs, initiatives, and workgroups that support the entire VCS community, with primary care for K-12 faculty, staff, and administrators. Advocate for Biblical Unity Principles to show a unifying Christian response to the many divisive social and cultural challenges about equity within the diversity of the human race, such as the diversity of race, social justice, politics, gender identity, and culture. Biblical unity is a perspective from the Bible for the only means of achieving genuine diversity, equity, and inclusion that leads to belonging.Initiate goals for developing a school culture to carefully listen, engage in winsome conversations, build bridges of unity, and raise awareness about inclusion for all people in God's kingdom. Lead systems-change initiatives that transform the education organization.Ideate, promote, and further develop a loving Christ-honoring VCS community that treasures and respects all people.Advancing a community where all students, employees, alumni, and their families feel welcome, are respected.Provide biblically sound leadership, direction, and spiritual care to develop a richly diverse, thriving community of Christians.Advise Senior Leadership Team to help achieve collaborative decision-making and consensus-building leadership across the school related to unity and justice.Conduct behavioral and academic data analysis and employee surveys to determine any needed staff and faculty training.Review of all curriculum through a biblical lens.Equip students, faculty, and staff with the competencies to successfully navigate challenging interactions.Train teachers how to teach and integrate biblical unity principles.Build a diverse Christian education culture that attracts and retains students, faculty, and staff from misrepresented groups.

Silicon Valley

• Lead all operations for the successful delivery of services focused on teacher training, professional development, curriculum design, educational technology, design thinking, and meeting facilitation. • Create appealing marketing materials and promote educational services via social media platforms to generate new business. • Use knowledge of interactive communication to facilitate training sessions for school districts devoted to instructional resources, team-building activities, and report writing. • Work with executive team and strategic partners to formulate effective planning strategies for monitoring progress, achieving business objectives and reaching revenue goals. • Conduct comprehensive competitive analysis to forecast emerging market trends and align the company’s mission to meet these needs in transformative educational technology. • Build strong partnerships with like-minded education partners and engage prospective clients by networking at professional events. • Manage all design, development, and implementation phases for conducting interactive workshops for educator professional learning on learning sciences, online teaching, student-centered pedagogy, instructional design, and visual literacy. •Coach K-20 faculty in effective strategies for using academic and professional standards in curriculum design, including Common Core State Standards and ISTE Standards.Key Achievements:• Launch of new marketing strategies resulted in a 100% increase in revenue in second year.• Have given 30+ CUE and ISTE presentations and 20+ academic presentations.• Selected by CUE as Lead Learner, BOLD faculty, and Co-Chair of Higher Education Learning Network.

Los Altos Hills, California

• Spearheaded the development of intensive professional learning programs for thousands of teachers. • Directed instructional leaders through the design and development of each program, making sure to incorporate the most modern best practices into courses, curriculum maps, and data assessments. • Facilitated teacher trainings on the proper use of innovative educational technology and pedagogy. • Created lasting partnerships with academic institutions and educational agencies. • Identified areas of weakness in program development and worked with instruction leaders to improve their abilities at pass along knowledge in a way that elicits the best client response. • Monitored the center’s budget to ensure that funds were allocated properly so that resources for creating learning programs were available within cost and time limits. • Used design skills to create vibrant and eye-catching promotional materials distributed online and via social media to attract teachers looking to enrich their professional learning. • Produced research reports and program evaluations for annual reports and college curriculum reviews. Key Achievements:• Professional learning programs created had more than 3,000 teachers participate in the workshops.• Wrote grant proposals that won $250K for funding educator professional learning programs.• Designed and developed the first California Community Colleges Certificate in Instructional Design and Technology.

San Jose, California, United States

• Mentored graduate students and guided them through difficulties in course material to help them achieve their full academic potential.• Managed instructional technology and design in a three-year National Science Foundation ITEST grant project including multimedia materials and website design.

Ph.D., Education: Instructional Systems (Emphasis: Leadership In Higher Education)

Activities and Societies: Academic Computing Fellow (1999-2002)Dissertation: The Effect of an Analytic-trait, Task-specific Rubric.

Ma, Education: Instructional Technology

Instructional technology stands in the worlds of education and training, seeking to create efficient and effective solutions.

Ab, Art Design — Studio Art

Activities and Societies: Ujamaa resident Alondra Freshman Dorm Haus MittStudied, studied some more...art design, industrial design.