James Nottingham is the creator of the Learning Pit, one of the most widely used models for teaching to emerge in the last 20 years. He has worked closely with professors Carol Dweck (Growth Mindset) and John Hattie (Visible Learning); been a teaching assistant in a school for deaf children and a class teacher in EYFS and KS2; developed a ‘learning to learn’ programme in three high schools in the late 1990s; taught critical thinking to AS Level; been a deputy head in a middle school; and led a multi-award-winning EAZ to raise achievement in 68 schools across north east England.
In 2006, he created Challenging Learning, a not-for-profit organisation that helped shape pedagogical practice in the Nordic countries, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. At its peak, this company employed 30 staff in seven countries. Then when the pandemic began, he returned to the classroom, teaching 2 days a week in primary and 3 days a week in a high school in the Scottish Borders.
He now divides his time between teaching, consulting and writing. His twelfth book, Teach Brilliantly, was released in 2024 and is a best-seller in the USA, Canada, Australia, China and Argentina.
David Didau is an education consultant and writer. A prominent, often outspoken commentator on social media, his blog, The Learning Spy, is one of the most influential education blogs in the UK. He has written a series of books that challenge many of our assumptions on education such as Making Kids Cleverer, Intelligent Accountability and Making Meaning in English.
Chloe Combi is a bestselling author, global speaker, futurist, researcher, and consultant. Her primary area of expertise is young people – Generation Z and Generation A.
I have interviewed over 20,000 young people globally and utilise that expertise into helping schools, brands, companies, governments, and institutions understand and prepare for the present and future.
I am a generation expert who works in hundreds of schools, delivering one-off talks and bespoke long-term projects that benefit students and staff emotionally, socially, culturally, and academically. All my work is underwritten by serious quantitative and qualitative research and data and unparalleled knowledge, using a coveted and highly successful approach and methodology – one that has won rave reviews and a waiting list of schools.
Andrew Patterson talks about his journey in Sport playing International Cricket and Hockey for Ireland as well as professional cricket for Surrey & Sussex, and how this built his resilience which has been cemented whilst going through his debilitating condition of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, which he developed in his 30’s. The diagnosis has meant wheelchair confinement is inevitable.
Andrew will explain how EVERYONE can gain resilience and how vital it is in all walks of life in terms of having perspective, the right response and purpose in our lives. Andrew will detail how we can build resilience amongst our athletes, learn to control what they can control and how resilience in sport can help in their everyday lives.