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Teaching at Cairn since 2025
Ed.D., Educational Leadership, Temple University
M.A., Educational Leadership, Villanova University
B.A., Social Science, Wheaton College
Dr. Steve Dill serves as Chair, EdD in Educational Leadership. He has served in multiple educational leadership roles in his career, including 40 years at Delaware County Christian School (Newtown Square, PA) in the roles of secondary history teacher, guidance counselor, development director, varsity basketball coach, assistant head of school and head of school. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Education in graduate programs at Cairn from 1997 to 2017, while also doing adjunct work at Clarks Summit University, Eastern University, and Columbia International University. He took on leadership roles for the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) as Senior Vice President USA and then Executive Director of the ACSI Education Foundation.
He has led many professional workshops for ACSI and other organizations, written multiple articles on Christian school leadership, and has served on several boards. He and his wife Marge live in Newtown Square, PA, with three adult children who all teach in Christian K-12 or Christian higher education, along with 10 grandchildren, the oldest now serving as a 2nd grade Christian school teacher.
Teaching at Cairn
EDU 991: Dissertation I, EDL 843: Education Policy Analysis
Publications and Presentations
• School Viability: Required for Long Term Impact, Christian School Education Vol.20, No.3 (2017)
• Flourishing Board Governance, Christian School Education Vol.20, No.2 (2017)
• Formative to Flourishing Framework: Spiritual Formation, Christian School Education Vol.20, No.1 (2016)
• Student Learning: The Big Picture, Christian School Education Vol.19, No.3 (2016)
• Executive Leadership: What Drives Us to Flourish, Christian School Education Vol.19, No.2 (2016)
• Moving From Formative to Flourishing, Christian School Education Vol.19, No. 1 (2015)
• The University Model Approach, Christian School Education Vol.18, No.3 (2015)
• Can Love and Accountability Coexist in the Leader’s Office? Christian School Education Vol. 17; No.2 (2014)
• Unchanging Foundations in a Rapidly Changing World, Christian School Education Vol.14; No.3 (2011)
• Using Online Resources to Build a Professional Growth Culture, Christian School Education Vol. 13; No.2 (2010)
• The How and the Why of Calculating the Cost of Education, Christian School Education Vol.6; No.2 (2003)
• Finding Friends and Funds: Nehemiah and the Golden Rule, in Called to Lead, edited by Kenneth Gangel, Colorado Springs:
ACSI (2002)
• Challenge Donors to Give Biblically, Christian School Education Vol.3; No.2 (2000)
• The Administration of the Development Program, in The Administration of the Christian School, edited by Roy W. Lowrie, Jr.,
Colorado Springs: ACSI (1984)