Bowker Biography:
Stephen Davenport

Stephen Davenport started his career as an educator in 1957 teaching, a coaching and parenting a dormitory in a single-sex boy's boarding school. From 1960 to 1973. he served as English teacher, Department Head, and coach, at Kingswood-Oxford School, a co-educational middle school and high school in West Hartford, Connecticut. In 1968, he was awarded the Capital Area Teacher of the Year Award by Trinity College. During the summers he directed a co-educational summer camp and led wilderness canoe trips.

In the seventies, Davenport also worked as a free-lance journalist. Focusing on education and conservation, he published in The New York Times Magazine, The Hartford Courant, The Saturday Review of Literature and Skin Diver.

From 1973 to 1977, Davenport was the headmaster of The Country School, an elementary school in Madison, Connecticut, From 1977 to 1987. he was Head of School at The Athenian School, a coeducational boarding and day school in Danville. California. In the summers he was External Director of the National Association of Independent Schools' New Heads' Workshop. He was a trustee of School of the Pacific Islands, a foundation dedicated to improving education in Micronesia.

From 1987 until 2000, he served as an executive search consultant and workshop facilitator to a variety of independent schools, including single-sex schools for girls.

Presently Davenport divides his time between writing and serving on boards of Aim High and the East Bay Conservation Corps, both dedicated to the education of underserved populations, and of the Athenian School.

 

 

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