Emily McCaren

Dr. Emily McCarren is the Academy (High School) Principal at the Punahou School in Honolulu Hawaiʻi. She has taught high school Spanish, math and science in Switzerland, California and Hawaiʻi. She holds masters degrees in Spanish Literature and Educational Leadership from St. Louis University and Columbia University and a PhD in Learning Design and Technology from the University of Hawaiʻi. She is a co-author of the series Take Action Guides to World Class Learners (Corwin, 2016) and serves on the boards of the Global Online Academy and the Mastery Transcript Consortium. McCarren is passionate about educational change and the moral imperative to provide our students with the schools they deserve and the world with the schools it needs.