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Steve Uebbing comes to the Warner School as the former superintendent of the Canandaigua City School District. He brings extensive school and district experience. He taught social studies, coached, and advised student clubs as a teacher in the Letchworth Central School for a decade, before becoming the high school principal and then superintendent of the Fort Plain Central School.
As superintendent in Canandaigua since 1988, Uebbing's accomplishments include: the development and implementation of four five-year strategic "Plans for Excellence"; participation in planning and implementing nearly $80 million in capital improvements; incorporation of organization-wide participatory decision-making and planning; incorporation of principled collective bargaining; development and implementation of instructional improvement models; development of partnerships with area and national corporations; development of nationally cited character education initiative; and focused improvement resulting in high levels of student performance.
During Uebbing's tenure, Canandaigua Academy has been named a national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, the Middle School has been labeled "one of the best in the country" by Paul George of the University of Florida, a nationally recognized Middle School authority, and both the Primary and Elementary Schools have successfully completed the rigorous Middle States Accreditation process, an unusual distinction for the K-5 grade levels.
At Warner, Uebbing will teach courses on educational leadership with a focus on K-12 schools and educational decision-making. His research interests are in leadership development, organizational change, law and policy. He is also interested in comparative education and K-12/higher education collaboration. Articles by Uebbing have appeared in Middle School Journal, The School Administrator, The Executive Educator, and The Journal of School Business Officials International. Uebbing is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences.
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