Steve Webb Ed.D.

Dr. Steven Webb served as superintendent of Vancouver (Wash.) Public Schools from 2008-2021. He has a distinguished 36-year career in public education in Washington and California, serving as superintendent, deputy superintendent, assistant superintendent for secondary learning and technology, principal and associate principal, high school teacher and coach.

Since retiring in 2021, Dr. Webb has served as a national consultant for AASA, an executive coach for superintendents and senior school district leaders, and an executive search associate.

While serving as VPS superintendent, the district achieved the following:

• Passage of five operating levies and two technology levies with voter approval ranging from 60% to 71%—generating more than $650.6 million in local funds;
• School facility investments—totaling $563 million from a voter-approved bond measure, a state smaller class-size grant and the state construction assistance program;
• Early learning partnerships and jump start kindergarten programs— 62.5% of students entered kindergarten ready in all six areas of development and learning, a 30 point increase in the past decade;
• A 1:1 technology initiative—providing digital learning devices to all students and teachers in grades K-12 along with a wireless network infrastructure to connect them;
• Family-Community Resource Centers—mobilizing partner services and financial assistance to support poverty-affected children in 20 schools—partnerships have grown from 22 to over 200 in the last decade mobilizing $8 million in community based resources;
• New innovative educational choices—including Vancouver Innovation, Technology and Arts (VITA) Elementary, Vancouver iTech Preparatory, Fort Vancouver Center for International Studies and Spanish and Mandarin language learning programs; and
• A dramatic increase in the on-time graduation rate—improving from 64% in 2010 to nearly 90% in 2020—and an extended graduation rate of 92% with African American and Latino students making the greatest gains.