Assistant Director of Unity Research School
Marc Rowland is a foremost expert on the effective use of the Pupil Premium and improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners. He is or has worked with the DfE, the Jersey government, numerous local authorities and over 500 individual schools to support them with their strategies to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. His work with the Jersey government on the introduction and implementation of a ‘Jersey Pupil Premium’ led to marked improvement in outcomes for disadvantaged pupils there.
Marc is currently the adviser for improving outcomes for disadvantaged learners for the Unity Schools Partnership. He is also working with the Education Endowment Foundation’s national Research School Network on the roll out of their national Pupil Premium training programme and on a range of programmes focused on educational disadvantage nationally. Marc has spoken to approximately 10,000 school leaders at conferences on Pupil Premium, from Northumberland to Cornwall. He led a review of the use and impact of Pupil Premium in the Oldham and Derby Opportunity Areas, and in East Sussex Local Authority, to be published in May 2020. Over the past five years, Marc has worked with Rosendale Research School on two major school-based research projects on Lesson Study and Metacognition. The latter being a large scale RCT funded by the EEF.
Marc is also an author. The second edition of his award-winning book, ‘An Updated Practical Guide to the Pupil Premium’, was published in December 2015 (John Catt Educational). His latest book ‘Learning without Labels’ was also published by John Catt in March 2017. Marc has also contributed to a number of other publications, such as ‘The Forgotten Third’, edited by Roy Blatchford CBE, ‘Great Expectations’, edited by David Bartram OBE, and ‘Spotlight on Disadvantage’ from the National Governors Association.
Marc is also an education adviser to the Driftwood Association, a charitable association funding small scale projects in Nepal and was also Director of Policy and Research for the National Education Trust from 2007 to 2017. He was formerly the Head of Rosendale Research School in Lambeth.
Team Manager, Poverty Proofing® The School Day, Children North East
Ancha Stoodley leads the nationally recognised Poverty Proofing® The School Day approach at Children North East, a pioneering initiative that has worked for over a decade to embed poverty-sensitive practices in educational settings across the UK. With over 25yrs experience working in communities impacted by poverty and with a deep commitment to social justice, Ancha champions the importance of working at place within educational settings to elevate the voices of children and families experiencing poverty and to co-create sustainable, stigma-free solutions.
Director, SEND Matters UK
Gary Aubin is the author of The Lone SENDCO, a handbook of 300 questions and answers for busy SENDCOs, and The Parent's Guide to SEND. He is the Director of SEND Programmes and Networks for Whole Education and served on the Labour Government's Curriculum and Assessment Review panel. Gary is also the Education Endowment Foundation's SEND Associate. In this role, he has worked extensively on sharing the evidence base behind high-quality teaching for SEND, as well as advised on the development of the SENCO NPQ. As a Consultant, Gary has spoken internationally, advised the BBC, written content for the National Institute of Teaching and given talks to hundreds of Trust, Local Authority and school audiences. Gary led on SEND provision for a Multi Academy Trust of 10 primary and secondary schools for several years. He is a secondary teacher, former primary and secondary SENDCO and former secondary Head of Year. Gary also authors the SENDMattersUK blog.
Director of Programmes and Partnerships, The Bell Foundation
Katherine works as Director of Programmes and Partnerships for The Bell Foundation. Prior to joining Bell, she worked as a teacher, teacher educator and school leader both in the UK and overseas. She holds PGCE Primary, CELTA and DELTA qualifications and an MA in Applied Linguistics. Her interests include EAL assessment and working in partnership with schools to build sustainable provision for learners who use EAL.
Estelle started her career as a teacher in an inner city multiracial comprehensive school where she taught for 18 years. In 1992 she was elected as Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley and in 1997, she was appointed a Minister at the Department for Education and Employment becoming the Secretary of State in the Department of Education and Skills in 2002. She followed this with 2 years as a Minister at the Department of Culture Media and Sport.
Since then, Estelle has held posts as Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Sunderland, Chair of the Children’s Workforce Development Committee and Chair of the Institute of Effective Education.
Estelle is currently the Chair of BEP and helped establish the Area-based Education Partnerships Association (AEPA).
Estelle led the Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes, which aimed to understand the causes of white working class educational underachievement.
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