The Teaching & Learning Summit:
Our 2023 Speakers
The 2023 Teaching & Learning Summit featured a great selection of speakers who gave talks on topics such as Cold-Calling, psychologically rich questioning, Retrieval Practice and more… We left the day feeling inspired, our minds full of evidence-informed strategies and insights. Want to get inspired too? Watch the talks online now.
Craig Barton
Craig Barton is the Head of Education at Eedi, having taught maths in secondary schools for 15 years and as a TES Maths Adviser for 10 years. He is the author of the best-selling books How I wish I’d taught maths and Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain, the host of the Mr Barton Maths podcast and the Tips for Teachers podcast, and the creator of websites such as mrbartonmaths.com. In 2020 he was appointed as Visiting Fellow at the Mathematics Education Centre at the University of Loughborough.
Follow Craig at @mrbartonmaths
Bradley Busch
Bradley Busch is a chartered psychologist at InnerDrive. He is one of the leading experts on how psychological research can best help students and teachers improve how they think, learn and perform. Along with Edward Watson, he is the author of best-selling education books Release Your Inner Drive and The Science of Learning: 99 studies that every teacher should know. Outside of education, he works with Premiership and international footballers as well as helping members of Team GB win medals at London 2012, Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2020.
Follow Bradley at @Inner_Drive
Sarah Cottingham
Sarah Cottingham is an Associate Dean at Ambition Institute, a national educational charity helping schools tackle educational disadvantage through teacher and school leader training. A former English teacher, she now works as a teacher educator working on the NPQs and supporting schools with their professional development. Sarah recently completed an MA in Educational Neuroscience and blogs at overpractised.com.
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Jim Heal
Jim Heal works at Deans for Impact, a nonprofit helping to infuse cognitive science principles into teacher training and development. Prior to that, he was Director of Practice at Harvard’s Research Schools International initiative. After his initial teacher training at King’s College London, he spent over a decade in schools as an English teacher, Principal, and Specialist Leader in Education. He holds a Master’s in School Leadership and Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Harvard University, and is author of How Teaching Happens: Seminal Works in Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness and What They Mean in Practice.
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Dr Carl Hendrick
Dr Carl Hendrick is co-author of How Learning Happens and How Teaching Happens. He holds a PhD in education from King’s College London and has taught for several years in both the state and independent sectors. He currently teaches at Wellington College, where he has had a variety of roles including Head of English, Head of Learning and Research, and co-director of the Telegraph Festival of Education.
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Dr Iro Konstantinou
Dr Iro Konstantinou is a Research Associate at the Tony Little Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning at Eton College and edits the Eton Journal for Research and Innovation in Education. She oversees the Leadership Institute, develops Higher Education (HE) modules in research methods, researches interventions to improve wellbeing in student transition to HE for Pearson and is the manager of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership initiatives. Iro is also a research fellow at BrainCanDo.
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Jonnie Noakes
Jonnie Noakes is Director of Teaching and Learning at Eton and the Director of The Tony Little Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning. He is an expert in character education. As an English teacher, he has led departments at Eton and at the London Academy of Excellence and published fourteen texts on contemporary novels for A-Level and undergraduate level. He is a governor or trustee of several state and independent schools, a director of BrainCanDo, an editorial board member of the Chartered College of Teaching’s journal Impact, and a member of the global research committee of the International Boys’ School Coalition.
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Cat Scutt
Cat Scutt MBE is the Director of Education and Research at the Chartered College of Teaching, leading their work around teacher development both online and face-to-face, including the Chartered Teacher programme. A former English teacher, she has worked as a teacher and advisor in the state and independent sector, and in corporate learning and development. She is a Doctoral Researcher at UCL Institute of education, and an MBE for services to education.
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Sonia Thompson
Sonia Thompson is a Headteacher at St Matthew’s CE Teaching/Research School. She is co-lead for English and also the History and Assessment Lead. She is the author of ‘An Ethic of Excellence In Action’. Sonia is passionate about evidence-based practice and has placed metacognition and self-regulation approaches at the heart of the school. She has run an OU/UKLA Teachers’ Reading Group for four years and is an advisor for the OU/UKLA Research Rich Pedagogies website.
Follow Sonia at @son1bun
Edward Watson
Edward Watson is the founder of InnerDrive, a mental skills company that helps students and teachers improve how they think, learn and perform. He graduated Oxford University and served 7 years in the Army. After an MBA at London Business School, he worked as a strategic management consultant. In 2006, he founded InnerDrive and has since designed and delivered student workshops and CPD for hundreds of schools. Along with Bradley Busch, he is the author of Release Your Inner Drive and The Science of Learning.
Follow Edward at @Inner_Drive
Interested in what these speakers had to say?
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And you can also catch up on the 2021 edition to hear from speakers including Jade Pearce, John Tomsett, Lekha Sharma and more…
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