Joanne McEachan (Ngāi Tahu Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha)

Joanne started her career as a teacher and principal before joining the Ministry of Education in 2008. With the MoE she managed multiple whole-system initiatives and began down the path of systemic reform centred on equitable outcomes and authentic assessment. After moving to the United States in 2012, Joanne founded ‘The Learner First’ to take a systemic approach to the integration of academic, social and emotional learning and then co-founded the global initiative New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). More recently she has helped design the Contributive Learning framework to help school communities design purposeful learning experiences and measure the outcomes that matter. She’s a celebrated author, and speaker and her work in the education space has created global change. Read more