Dive Into Deep Learning

Joanne Quinn is an international consultant and author on system change, leadership, and learning. As co-founder and global director of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning, she leads the capacity building of a global innovation partnership across eight countries focused on transforming learning. Joanne has provided leadership at all levels of education as a superintendent of education, implementation advisor to the Ontario Ministry of Education, and Director of Continuing Education at the University of Toronto. Recent books include Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems; The Taking Action Guide for Building Coherence in Schools, Districts, and Systems; and Deep Learning: Engage the World, Change the World. Joanne′s diverse leadership roles and her passion to open windows of opportunity for all give her a unique perspective on influencing positive change.Joanne McEachen is founder and CEO of The Learner First (thelearnerfirst.com), an international education consultancy based in Seattle, Washington. She leads a team of dedicated education and evaluation specialists who support school systems through the processes of assessment, measurement, and whole-system change. Her methodology interrogates systems through the eyes of their least-served learners, supporting them to embrace and celebrate students’ cultural identities and individual interests and needs. Joanne also serves as the Global New Measures Director for New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL), an international partnership focused on measuring and developing six global competencies of deep learning (the “6Cs”), where she works alongside and in partnership with Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn, and other educators and system leaders worldwide. With her NPDL cofounders, Joanne coauthored Deep Learning: Engage the World, Change the World, which shares and celebrates the learning emerging from throughout NPDL. Joanne’s expertise spans every level of the educational system. She has been a teacher, principal, superintendent, and national-school-system leader in her home country of New Zealand and around the world, and she has worked with multiple large and diverse school districts in the US to bring deeper learning to life. Drawing from rich and varied experiences tackling the issues faced by schools, districts, education departments, and the individuals within them, Joanne shares measures, tools, approaches, and insights that deepen learning for every learner.Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is co-leader of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global initiative. Michael served as Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. He received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012 and holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His ‘interim autobiography,’ Surreal Change, covers his pre-Covid-19 era to 2018. Michael and his colleagues are now working diligently on field-based comprehensive system change in several countries. Under the umbrella of what they call the ‘humanity paradigm’ —equitable-equal deep change that integrates local (school and community), middle (district/regional), and centre (policy) entities. Michael’s latest books are: Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration (with Mark Edwards, 2022), The Principal 2.0 (2023), The Drivers (with Joanne Quinn, 2023), and The New Meaning of Educational Change, 6th Edition (2025).For more information on books, articles, videos, podcasts please go to: www.michaelfullan.ca

Slow down to go fast. Joanne Quinn and her colleagues take the guess work out of Deep Learning by showing how we can transform our schools into Deep Learning cultures steeped in rigor and joy. This is the rare book that concretely shows how to build classrooms and schools infused with Deep Learning. Chock-full with resources, tips, rubrics, and more, this book provides both a road map and a set of tools that will accelerate the work of educators around the world who are transforming our industrial-age structures into passion-filled deeper learning environments.

• Section One. Diving Into Deep LearningChapter 01. GOOD AT LEARNING AND GOOD AT LIFEThe UrgencyWhat Is Deep Learning?Why Deep Learning WorksSystems Change and the Way ForwardGetting StartedChapter 02. HOW TO USE THIS GUIDEGetting StartedOrganization of the GuideBuilding Capacity for Deep LearningSection Two. A Framework for Deep LearningChapter 03. THE DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORKThe Deep Learning FrameworkFinal ThoughtsChapter 04. THE GLOBAL COMPETENCIES FOR DEEP LEARNINGDefining the CompetenciesUnique Characteristics of the Global Competencies (6Cs)Global Competencies in ActionEmerging InsightsGetting StartedFinal ThoughtsChapter 05. THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF LEARNING DESIGNLearning PartnershipsLearning EnvironmentsLeveraging DigitalPedagogical PracticesFinal ThoughtsChapter 06. THE COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY PROCESSWhat Is Collaborative Inquiry?Collaborative Inquiry in Learning DesignCollaborative AssessmentCollaborative Assessment of School and District ConditionsFinal ThoughtsSection Three. Learning ProgressionsChapter 07. USING LEARNING PROGRESSIONSOrganizationDesigning LearningAssessing LearningFeedbackFinal ThoughtsSection Four. Designing Deep LearningChapter 08. DEEP LEARNING DESIGNLearning Design: The Key ComponentsBackward DesignThe Learning Design RubricFinal ThoughtsSection Five. Assessment PracticesChapter 09. COLLABORATIVE ASSESSMENTThe Collaborative Assessment ProcessEstablishing NormsManaging the ProcessFinal ThoughtsSection Six. Building Capacity for Deep LearningChapter 10. TEACHER CAPACITY FOR DEEP LEARNINGReflective PracticeCoaching for SuccessFinal ThoughtsChapter 11. SCHOOL CAPACITY FOR DEEP LEARNINGThe School Conditions RubricGetting Started With Deep LearningPlanning for Deep LearningFinal ThoughtsChapter 12. DISTRICT CAPACITY FOR DEEP LEARNINGThe District Conditions RubricDeveloping a District Deep Learning PlanLeveraging the Power of School VisitsFinal ThoughtsEpilogue: Act NowReferencesAcknowledgmentsAbout the Authors