ROLE: Assistant Superintendent for Innovation and Learning

SCHOOL: American School Foundation of Monterrey

COUNTRY: Mexico

Sascha Heckmann, EdD is known as an innovative practitioner who has broad experience in a variety of contexts. Heckmann is currently Director at the American International School of Mozambique. Previously, he was the High School Principal at Shanghai American School where he cultivated a foundation for innovative and progressive teaching and learning. During his time in Shanghai, Heckmann inspired the creation of the Innovation Institute, a transdisciplinary, project-based learning community that empowers students to personalize their learning through agency. The Innovation Institute was recently named one of the Top Education Innovations for 2019 by the Finnish organization HundrEd. Sascha has worked in a wide variety of schools ranging from private, international schools, United States public schools, and alternative schools.

Heckmann is the founder of 8 Degrees Up, an educational consulting firm that specializes in supporting schools in making the shift to personalized learning through student empowerment and agency. 8 Degrees focuses on helping schools become Highly Effective and Learning Progressive enabling learners to prepared to thrive in the present and future.

Heckmann holds a doctorate of education in organizational leadership from the University of LaVerne, master’s degree in education from California State University, Bakersfield, and bachelor of arts degree from California State University, Fresno.

To learn more about Heckmann’s work, go to www.8degreesup.com, or follow him at @sascha_heckmann