My vision is to establish a learning community where children feel safe and achieve excellence

Meet Dr Megel R Barker

educator | conference presenter | author | learning leader | problem solver |

Megel is a future-facing and student-focused educational leader, with over 25 years of experience in leading change and serving families in the UK, Jamaica, and Oman.  He is currently an assistant principal and MYP Coordinator at an International School in the Middle East. Megel is the director of Embark Education Ltd, an educational consulting firm based in the UK, supporting schools and school leaders with retention and recruitment of staff as well as providing bespoke workshops on improving attainment, assessment, data analysis, technology infusion, and ethical leadership.

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As an engaging presenter, he routinely challenges educators to align their practice with their beliefs and to embrace lateral thinking.  He has opened the discourse about ethics training for educational leaders at the Middle East School Leadership Conference, challenged math educators to be courageous at the Middle East Mathematics Teachers Conference, is currently the GCC ASCD Teacher ambassador for Oman, founder of the Oman Learning Network, and presented at the IB World Conference in Abu Dhabi. Megel was also a mentor and reviewer for the ASCD Teach to Lead Summit in October 2019 as well as a contributing editor for the ASCD EdAdvantage Magazine. 

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Megel is a staunch advocate of inquiry-based learning, skills-based learning, and brain-based pedagogy as the vehicle to develop self-directed learning in students. Conversations with Megel will invariably turn to wonderings about the optimal conditions for deep and powerful learning, how might we improve schools, and leading change to disrupt the status quo and improve outcomes. Yet at heart, Megel is a mathematics teacher who wants to see standards of pedagogy improved worldwide. His vision is to establish a learning community where students feel safe and achieve excellence. 

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Megel holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership, a Fellow of the AAIE, and has completed the NPQH.  Outside of education, he has established the Oman Scrabble Association, an avid chess and domino player, father of four children, Jamaughn, Mackenzie, Morgan, Myles, and is happily married to Denise.  

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