Kate Jones is currently Head of History at The British School Al Khubairat (BSAK) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates but will soon be returning to UK shores to take up a post at Innerdrive as Teaching & Learning Lead.

Author of Love To Teach: Research and Resources for Every Classroom and Retrieval Practice: Research and resources for Every Classroom, Retrieval Practice 2: Implementing, Embedding and Reflecting and Retrieval Practice: Resource Guide. Kate's most recent book is Wiliam & Leahy’s Five Formative Assessment Strategies in Action.

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Joshua Vallance is the National Lead of History for Oasis Academies and leads on Curriculum at Oasis Academy Shirley Park.

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Dan Edwards is a principal of a large primary school. Prior to this Dan taught in a secondary school teaching a full timetable of GCSE and A-Levels. Dan has held leadership roles in both primary and secondary sectors and has also spent considerable time working in various education units in adolescent residential social care. Dan also had a brief sojourn teaching post-graduates as a visiting lecturer at universities. Dan is a regular columnist for Teach Primary, The Headteacher magazine and SSAT. Dan hosts a regular education forum on twitter called #SaturdayEdChat and is a host on Teachers Talk Radio.

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Bradley Busch is a chartered psychologist. With extensive experience working in schools, he is a leading expert at helping schools utilise psychological research. Outside of education, Bradley works with elite athletes including professional footballers and Team GB. 

 

Edward Watson is a graduate of Oxford University who served seven years in the Army. After receiving an MBA at The London Business school, he worked as a strategic management consultant for Marakon Associates before running businesses in the computer games market. 

 

They are co-authors of The Science of Learning:99 studies that every teacher needs to know.

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Tamsin Bellaby is a Lincolnshire based secondary teacher of Art Photography and recently Business Studies. Tamsin is obsessed with the power of transformative culture within schools. Until January she was the HoY11 and led on inclusion. Tamsin has recently started at a new school where she leads Pupil Premium and drives KS4 and KS5 achievement.

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Samuel Elliott has been a classroom teacher since 2016. Having grown up, lived in and taught in deprived areas, Samuel possesses key insights into misbehaviour that many teachers lack. These experiences informed his approaches in his trainee and NQT years, which, combined with his research into behaviour psychology, have since given rise to a pedagogy that borrows from both traditional and progressive philosophies.

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Anne Glennie is a literacy consultant and trainer, author of Reflective Reading and owner of The Learning Zoo. To date, she has trained over 10,000 teachers in all aspects of literacy and assessment in Scotland. Anne has a particular interest in the teaching of reading through synthetic phonics, she sits on the Reading Reform Foundation committee and is also a founding committee member of IFERI - the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction. She is passionate about reading for pleasure and is an indie publisher of children’s and YA fiction at Cranachan - who were recently highly commended in The British Book Awards Small Press of the Year 2021.

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Haili Hughes is an English teacher and a former head of department and senior leader who has mentored new teachers and ITT students for over ten years. A former journalist Haili has been teaching for the best part of 15 years and has enjoyed developing teachers at many stages of their career. Haili writes regularly for TES and other education publications and she is the author of Preserving Positivity and Mentoring in Schools.

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Jon Tait is the Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO at Arete Learning Trust in North Yorkshire. Jon started teaching in 2001 as a qualified PE teacher and more recently has taught Computer Science. Jon has been a senior leader for 13 of his 19 years in teaching. Jon is the author of five books, 100 ideas for engaging learners, Bloomsbury CPD Library: Senior Leadership, Succeeding as a Head of Year, Teaching Rebooted & Stepping Into Senior Leadership

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Barry Smith is a founding senior leader of Michaela Community School, former Headteacher of Great Yarmouth Charter Academy and Regional Director of Community Schools Trust in London.

Barry and I discuss how to improve teaching and pupil buy in, what really good behaviour looks like, how to get staff buy in and how to build a culture of genuine mutual respect. Barry also shares his aim to have the 'most relaxed school in the country'.

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