Joanne Quinn leads the Capacity Building team of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning inspiring change through the development of professional capital in +1000 schools in 7 countries (Australia, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, United States and Uruguay) www.npdl.global

But beyond connecting the dots, she finds the key of educational change in understanding the ways, meaning and purpose of that connection. What makes networking meaningful? Is technology empowering exchange or is it providing a shallow illusion of connection? 
 
Joanne has a coherent grounded innovative perspective of change, having wear every shoe of the educational system, from teacher, principal to the design of strategic whole system change projects at global, national and district levels in Canada, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and the United States.

Joanne Quinn

When thinking about the future of education and how to reshape it for the modern era, we expect ¨the new¨ to emerge from the balance between the aspects we want to keep and those we want to change.  This equation is easier said than done.

In this podcast, Bruce Jepsen shares how overlooking our culture when thinking about educational change can make us lose not only our place of belonging, but also, academic outcomes. Bruce shows us how achievement, is an holistic enterprise. 

Bruce Jepsen is the Principal of Te Akau Ki Papamoa School, located on the shores of Papamoa Beach,  New Zealand. He has lead the school from underachievement to over achievement by putting his ancestral Maori cultural legacy and the use of technology at the heart of the schools vision, turning his school into the 1st Apple Distinguished School of the country and linking with Google in 2016 in a successful 1 to 1 story.

Bruce Jepsen is also the Lead School Principal of Cluster 18 and a Mentor for New Principals in New Zealand (FTTP Mentor).

Bruce Jepsen

Between the macro and the micro level visions for educational change, and as we work on making change happen, there are gaps that sometimes end in superficial or false signals of change.
´Leadership from the middle´ has a pivotal role shaping implementation to achieve coherence, turning what education should be into what education really is in each country and community.
In this podcast, we will hear Helen and Scott’s thoughts about practicalities of change, re-professionalising teaching, grunt monkeys, designing beyond mediocrity and student agency, amongst others!

Helen Leyden is Deputy Principal of Teaching at Learning Sunshine Beach High School and Scott Millman is Head of Teaching and Learning at Nambour State College.  Helen and Scott have not only major roles in shaping NPDL implementation in their schools, but are also a force for local change in a 29 School NPDL Cluster in Queensland, Australia.

Helen Leyden and Scott Millman

In this podcast we discuss Cristobal Cobo´s perspective on the pending innovation in education. We push our thinking on ¿how to create a future proof education? and we go deeper to understand the gaps between academic theory and everyday school practice.  

Cristóbal Cobo (PhD) is Director of the Center for Research – CEIBAL Foundation in Uruguay, and also an associate researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford. He has been distinguished by the British Council of Economic and Social Research (ESRC) and is an associate research fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance, University of Oxford.

Cristobal Cobo

We are an international movement of 1000 schools in seven countries dedicated to transform learning by identifying new pedagogies that foster deep learning competencies and ways to measure progress.

Cristobal Cobo

NPDL: The Change Makers

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