Welcome!

I currently work for the Specialist Schools & Academies Trust and have been fortunate enough to have been involved in a number of successful regional and national partnership projects in recent years:

The Teach Advanced Online & Collaborative project. Project managing and leading the development and national pilot of an online “pull” professional development community that seeks to provide a structured collaborative curriculum development space in which education leaders, teachers and teaching assistants can innovate. The project is a partnership between the SSAT and Intel Education and uses a (soon to be launched) Moodle base with a unique and innovative assessment for learning module.

The Silverstone Learning & Discovery Centre. Working in partnership with Silverstone Circuits Ltd, The DfES (now DCSF), Northamptonshire LA’s Playing for Success programme, The National College for Motorsport, Apple Computers and lead education agencies locally. I project managed the creation of a centre for learning at the UK’s premier Grand Prix Circuit.

The National Learning Network East Midlands project - a partnership between three FE colleges and Northamptonshire LA (represented by myself as project manager). Developed a community of paired “next-practice” teachers using online web technologies to share resource development, new teaching and learning methodology and experiences.

Creative ICT in the Classroom: Using New Tools for Learning. This book represents a number of the practical concepts and ideas around using ICT and e-learning in a blended context developed during the first phase of the Learning Discovery Centre project. I am a co-author.

Currently:

Managing the development of the UK Teach Advanced Online & Collaborative moodle platform and the integration of our assessment for learning module.

Training TAOC participants in the UK and other consortium countries (recently Jordan).

Developing a series of think tank style events to showcase school developments in a range of areas.

Delivering on the National College for School Leadership BSF Leadership programme. As part of the SSAT delivery team, delivering training and support for schools and LA’s to enable them to form their vision for learning and strategy for change as part of the Building Schools of the Future process.

The things i'm into:

Harnessing and encouraging innovation.
Building partnerships between education and industry.
Curriculum redevelopment and redesign.
Building a vision for new schools.
Professional development and teacher training.
Change management.
Embedded use of learning platforms.
Supporting staff in adopting new technologies.
Harnessing the power of the learners preferred technologies.
Learning Platform design.
Mobile technologies in education/mobile learning.
Game based Learning.
Project management.

Useful links to projects :

Intel Teach Advanced Online and Collaborative
The ICT Register
Personalising Learning using New Technologies
Curriculum Design
Teachnet UK