Putting the learner first means focusing all activity within our schools and districts the development of deeper learning outcomes. By measuring these outcomes and what enables their development, we support learners to contribute to others’ lives and their communities in meaningful and fulfilling ways – we support them to succeed now and in their futures.
Joanne is originally from New Zealand and is now based in the USA. She is President and CEO of The Learner First and co-founder of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global partnership. Joanne is currently on the Karanga executive team – a global group based out of the Salzburg Global Seminar that is engaging countries in SEL and Wellbeing.
Joanne has been a teacher, principal, and education system leader, and she understands the complexity of teaching and leading in a school system.
In this Educhange Podcast Joanne McEachen unpacks how we can better measure the components of learning we truly value, rather than the learning that is easiest to measure.
Measuring Human Return explores how to put learners first by measuring and developing the outcomes that matter.
Learn about, improve, and expand your world of learning. This hands-on companion to the runaway best-seller, Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World, provides an essential roadmap for building capacity in teachers, schools, districts, and systems to design deep learning, measure progress, and assess conditions needed to activate and sustain innovation.
The Learner First’s partnership with New Pedagogies for Deep Learning, means we are inviting you to join the global partnership at the NPDL Deep Learning Lab on November 11-12, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.
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Joanne McEachen2019-11-20 14:14:512019-11-20 14:17:01Setting out on the Journey to System-Wide Wellbeing
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Joanne McEachen2019-10-16 12:20:302019-10-16 12:28:10HOW MUCH MORE ARROGANT COULD WE BE?: Changing Education's Adult-Centered Narrative
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The Team2019-09-12 11:42:382019-09-12 11:45:24Karanga: A Call out in Welcome to Better Lives for Learners
Setting out on the Journey to System-Wide WellbeingNovember 20, 2019 - 2:14 pmGoldendale School District is a district of three schools (one primary, one middle, and one high school) and 920 students located in Washington State. To help kick off the 2019-20 school year, teachers and other school- and district-level staff engaged in The Learner First’s Wellbeing First Workshop, designed to promote professional wellbeing in ways that […]
