Danielle Toon

Danielle is responsible for Evidence for Learning‘s strategy, products, projects, and partnerships. She established Evidence for Learning’s Early Childhood Education initiative and has led large collaborative research projects such as Getting Evidence Moving in Schools (GEMS).

Danielle has twenty years of experience in strategy, policy, research, design, and implementation projects for schools, early learning providers, for-purpose organizations, education systems, and large corporations. Danielle was a consulting expert for an OECD study on teacher preparation, and in recent years managed a global project on teacher training for Learning First in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Before this, Danielle led an Indigenous education reform organization and worked in remote primary schools, advised on education policy for state and federal governments, and was a managing consultant for IBM Global Business Services.

Danielle holds a Masters's in Instructional Leadership from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and a first-class honors degree from the University of New South Wales in Business and Technology. Danielle is a Trustee of the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and has served on the board of an Indigenous boarding school.