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Consultants
Bringing renowned consultants to Wales
The Learning Partnership warmly welcomes and values the participation of our partner consultants.
The Learning Partnership actively engages renowned consultants in developing courses to meet the national agenda in Wales. Recognised as being leaders in their field, our partner consultants offer expertise in a variety of specialisms from experiential learning to the management of change.
Anni McTavish
Anni’s background lies in the arts, psychotherapy and early childhood education. Her creative arts work includes storytelling, drama, music and movement.
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Sue Palmer
Sue Palmer, a former primary headteacher, is an independent writer, presenter and consultant on primary education, notably literacy.
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Ros Bayley
Following an extensive career as an early year’s teacher Ros now works as an early year’s consultant, trainer and storyteller.
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Sally Thomas
Sally Thomas is a freelance trainer and consultant specialising in issues relating to the birth to seven age group.
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Marion Dowling
Marion is an early years specialist with experience as a playgroup leader, a teacher and headteacher.
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Margaret Edgington
Margaret is a specialist in work with young children, and has experience as an early years teacher, advisory teacher, and nursery school headteacher.
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Paddy Beels
Paddy Beels is headteacher at Wingate Nursery in County Durham and has had an extensive career working with young children.
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Bernadette Duffy
Bernadette Duffy is Head of the Thomas Coram Early Childhood Centre in Camden which has been designated as a Children’s Centre.
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Anna House
Anna’s career in education spans more than forty years and includes teaching experience across a range of phases, with a focus on the Early Years.
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Glenda Dudley
Glenda Dudley has worked in Early Years education for more than twenty years both in the UK and in an international context in Europe and the Middle East.
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Peter Hall Jones
Peter has experience as a teacher, headteacher and consultant with QCA. Within education Peter’s specialism and expertise lie in the areas of Leadership, Culture/Behaviour Change and Conflict Resolution.
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Elizabeth Wood
Dr Elizabeth Wood is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter. In her early career she taught in infant and nursery classes, and was head of an early years department in a primary school.
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Wendy Thomas
Wendy Thomas has worked in a wide variety of contexts both in the UK and overseas as a teacher, advisory teacher and headteacher.
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Deborah Nicholson
Deborah Nicholson has 27 years experience as a primary teacher, deputy headteacher and advisory teacher for primary English.
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Gwenda Easton
Mae Gwenda yn bennaeth ar Ysgol Gynradd Saron yn Sir Gaerfyrddin. Ysgol gynradd dwyieithog yw Saron gyda thua 250 o blant.
Gwenda is headteacher at Saron Primary School, which is a bilingual school in Carmarthenshire with approx 250 children.
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Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honours, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981.
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Sugata Mitra
Prof. Sugata Mitra is currently Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University. He is also Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at NIIT. His work with NIIT is widely recognised and acclaimed.
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Jan White
With twenty-five years experience of working in education, Jan has developed a deep commitment to the consistently powerful effect of the outdoors on young children.
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The Creative Arts Support Team (CAST) Julie Ashfield and Robert Cornelius
The Creative Arts Support Team (CAST) comprises Julie Ashfield, Arts in Education Development Officer, and Robert Cornelius, School Improvement Adviser, Music and Creative Arts.
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Gill Harrison
Gill has worked in primary education for 38 years; first as a classroom teacher, then as a deputy and head teacher. For the last 12 ½ years she has been a primary advisor in Neath Port Talbot with particular responsibility for early years / Foundation Phase.
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Paul Smith
Paul was formerly Assessment Adviser for Devon Local Education Authority and now works as an independent education consultant. Paul has experience of working with a wide variety of schools and local authorities,
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Anne Nelson
Anne is an early year’s specialist. She has been an early years teacher, deputy head and headteacher of a primary school. For 21 years she was a local authority early years adviser and a school improvement adviser to primary, secondary and special schools.
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Ferre Laevers
Prof. Dr. Ferre Laevers is a member of the staff of the Department of Education, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and director of the Centre for Experiential Education.
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Julia Moons
Julia Moons has been participating in the Experiential Education project since 1980. As a preschool teacher she was involved in several action research projects and has made a major contribution to the development of practice that supports well-being and involvement in children.
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Jane Evans
Jane Evans began her teaching career in 1978 and has always worked in schools in the socially deprived and more challenging areas of Cardiff. During the 1980s, she worked as a part time Lecturer in Primary Education at Swansea University assisting in the delivery of the PGCE Primary Course.
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Jasmine Pasch
Jasmine Pasch is the director of ‘phew!!!’ arts company and is a versatile and experienced community dance artist, choreographer and educator. Trained as a professional dancer, teacher and counsellor, Jasmine Pasch is an experienced movement practitioner who has worked in education, arts and health settings for the last twenty eight years.
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Ann Samuel
Ann Samuel has worked in the field of Welsh Second Language for more than twenty years in her role as class teacher, Uwch Athrawes Fro and for the past seven years as an Advisory Teacher for Welsh Second Language in Cardiff. In her current role Ann runs language and methodology courses for teachers across both key stages developing Welsh as a second language.
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Karen March
Karen is an experienced Early Years’ practitioner having gained her NNEB 18 years ago. She has developed a special expertise with very young children and with children with special needs.
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Rose Orchard
Rose Orchard BA Hons., P.G.C.E., Advanced Diploma Special Needs, EEL Trainer. Rose Orchard has taught children with moderate, severe and complex learning difficulties in special schools for 17 years.
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Helen Peter
Helen Peter has been teaching for 30 years across all phases of education. Currently she is an independent trainer and consultant who still teaches one day a week in Bristol.
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Karen Newby Jones
Karen Newby Jones has experience in the secondary and tertiary sector and has supported primary and special schools as a school improvement adviser.
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Lisa Verkerk
Lisa Verkerk teaches at The International School of Amsterdam. She has been involved with Project Zero from Harvard University for a number of years working alongside Ron Ritchhart in developing and trialling Thinking Routines.
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Lesley Snowball
Lesley is a special education, language and curriculum specialist with extensive experience as a teacher, school leader and consultant. She was the Language Coordinator with the Vienna International School; Founding Director of The International School of Budapest; and Head of Lower School/Deputy Director with the International School of Amsterdam, the first authorized International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme School in the world.
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Rosemary Taylor
Dr Rosemary Taylor, senior partner of Key Issues, qualified as a teacher more than 25 years ago, later becoming one of the youngest Headteachers in the country. She attained a Masters Degree in Educational Management followed by a PhD in Change Management and now works as a consultant to schools, colleges and industry.
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Mick Waters
After teaching in Nottingham, two headships in Cumbria and a spell in teacher training at Lancaster, Mick Waters became involved in national school improvement work.
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David Miller
David's varied career has seen him teach in Milan and Copenhagen, work with Sir Philip Ledger at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, fundraise for major Arts festivals and found a successful software company.
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Robert Winston
Lord Robert Winston, Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London, a university with one of the strongest international science bases, runs a research programme in the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology.
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Julie Glynn
Julie has 15 years experience as a psychologist working in a range of settings with children and those who care for them.
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