Evaluation Associates welcomes Chief Executive
By Editor on May 8, 2015 in Leadership
Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga is excited to announce that Anna Sullivan has joined the team in the new position of Chief Executive.
Anna’s appointment reflects the growth of Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga and she joins current directors Michael Absolum and Mary Chamberlain in leading the organisation.
Anna is an experienced education leader and professional learning and development specialist and she has had a broad range of roles in education nationally and internationally. Anna comes to Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga from Cognition Education where she was involved in both their professional learning and development work in New Zealand and their international Visible LearningPlus team. She was also the foundation consortium manager for the Te Toi Tupu education consortium.
Anna is a great fit with Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga. She’s a great believer in the importance of evaluation – not just surface level evaluation using standardised assessments, but in thinking about the extent of what is really important for students in a school and designing ways to understand how well those things are working. She has a passion for ensuring students are active in the learning process and she has developed programmes which are delivered around the world supporting schools to do this. She comes with a great depth of knowledge about the design of effective professional learning and development.
Anna brings to Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga a breadth of international experience.She worked for a number of years in Qatar, and in a range of remote schools in the Northern Territories of Australia, and has also worked closely with educators in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Anna values collaboration and partnerships within and across organisations. She has extensive expertise in the area of building high quality partnerships with schools and other organisations.
Anna has a strong interest in understanding how we can learn from research about what makes a difference in education and considering how that applies in today’s context. She’s interested in the power of digital technologies beyond the bells and whistles and in exploring how these can create powerful learning opportunities for students.
Anna will be based in our Auckland office, but will also spend time with our Wellington and Christchurch teams.
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