Sarah Fine

Sarah Fine is an Assistant Professor of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her teaching, research, and leadership are rooted in the goal of transforming PK-12 schools into humanizing and intellectually vtal places to teach and learn. Dr. Fine began her career as an English teacher at a public high school in southeast Washington, D.C. After completing her doctoral work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Fine served as the founding director of the San Diego Teacher Residency, a project-based-learning and justice-focused educator preparation program. Her first book, coauthored with Jal Mehta, is In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Transform the American High School. In 2021, the book won the Grawemeyer Award in Education.