Kirstin McEachern

Kirstin Pesola McEachern Ph.D. is Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs and Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator at The Summit. As Curriculum and Instruction Director, she oversees the development of curriculum across grade levels K-12 and across all subject areas. Dr. McEachern assists in the planning, leadership, and execution of periodic curriculum reviews, and she ensures all teachers are following the best instructional practices. As Director and Diversity & Inclusion Director, she works with educational directors to plan faculty professional development to execute D&I principles in the classroom, and she works with the D&I committees in the Middle and Upper schools to support their work. She came to The Summit in 2015 with 19 prior years in education. She has served as assistant principal of academics, a middle and upper school English teacher, middle school writing lab director, and school newspaper moderator. She was an adjunct professor of English and education courses at Boston College, Loyola Marymount University, and Marian Court College. She chaired two accreditation committees for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and Western Association of Schools and Colleges and managed the revision of the scope and sequence for a K-12 school. She facilitated workshops for New Teacher Academy and was a researcher for the program evaluation and research branch of the Los Angeles Unified School District. She worked collaboratively on mixed-methods, a longitudinal research project to examine the connection between teacher preparation and retention, which resulted in two co-authored publications in Teachers College Record and Journal of Education. She has a bachelor's degree in English, summa cum laude, from Loyola Marymount University; a master's of teaching degree in English, summa cum laude, University of New Hampshire; and Ph.D., in curriculum and instruction from Boston College. She is a member of the American Association of University Women, American Educational Research Association, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and Pi Lambda Theta, the National Honor Society of Educators.