John Meehan

John Meehan (@MeehanEDU) is an English teacher, instructional coach, and professional development specialist from Washington, D.C. He is the author of EDrenaline Rush: Game-Changing Student Engagement Inspired by Theme Parks, Mud Runs, and Escape Rooms (2019) and the co-author of Fully Engaged: Playful Pedagogy for Real Results (2021) – co-authored with Wisconsin-based educator and classroom gamification pioneer Michael Matera, the author of eXPlore Like a Pirate. In July of 2020, Book Authority ranked EDrenaline Rush among the top 10 titles on their list of the “100 Best Teaching Books of All Time.” A nationally recognized speaker in the fields of student engagement and classroom gamification, John is a 2017 ASCD Emerging Leader and an alumnus of the 2016-2018 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Teacher Advisory Council. In 2016, he was named one of Arlington, Virginia’s “40 Under 40” by the Leadership Center for Excellence. In March of 2019, he created the #EggDashChallenge – a classroom activity that became a viral video, racking up 75K+ views in less than one month’s time, and spawning hundreds of classroom videos in 40 US states, 6 Canadian provinces, and 8 countries.

Together in March of 2021, John and Michael co-founded EMC2Learning.com, an online members community that now provides hundreds of gamified classroom resources to thousands of educators, schools, and districts all around the world. In January of 2023, EMC2 Learning was the winner of the Future of Education Technology Conference’s Pitchfest competition in the category of Best Online Classes, and was named a finalist in District Administration Magazine’s Top EdTech Products of 2023.

PAST PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:

Virginia Beach City Public Schools Annual Conference 2023

Kansas Association of Teachers of English Annual Conference 2023 (Virtual)
Imagining the Future of Learning Annual Conference 2023

Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network Annual Conference 2023
Hampton, Virginia Future of Learning Summit
Westminster College, Pennsylvania School of Education
FETC 2023
VASCD Annual Conference 2022

FETC 2022
George Mason University Graduate School of Museum Studies
Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts Annual Conference 2021
VASCD Annual Conference 2021

Alaska Education Association Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual)
The Technology & Curriculum Conference of Aldine, Texas

ASCD Arkansas - Fall Drive In 2021 Workshop

Keystone Technology Innovators Summit 2021

Great Plains Summit (Virtual)

New Mexico Grow Summit (Virtual)

Texas Region 12 TransformED Conference 2021

Microsoft CUE 2020 (Virtual)

Council for Exceptional Children Annual Conference 2020

Legends of Learning Annual Conference 2020

Keystone Technology Innovators Summit 2019
VASCD Annual Conference 2019

Insight Manville, New Jersey 2019
Andrew Greeley Center Mustard Seed Conference 2019

Teach Better Conference 2019

National Catholic Education Association Annual Conference 2019

Gamicon 2019

ASCD Empower 19

St. Louis Summit for Transformative Learning 2019

ASCD Virginia - Shenandoah University Summit 2019