Jackie Beere

“Informative, enthusiastic, thought provoking. Brilliant!!”

“Vast range of ideas and materials to share.  Tremendous passion and
enthusiasm”

“Thanks for a very informative and practical session today. It really was the best workshop and did actually give me a far better understanding of how to make and show progress. I now have a mound of ideas and tips to share with colleagues, which was excatly what I wanted from the session”

“Thank you for the valuable support and guidance that you have given to the school in general, and our headteachers in particular. Your input has undoubtedly helped us achieve 'outstanding' in our recent Ofsted inspection” Feedback from Chair of Governors and headteacher following inspection February 2011

As the idea of the ‘Learning School’ has grown over the last few years, Jackie Beere has been right at the heart of this educational revolution and her wide experience across primary and secondary sectors has earned her a reputation for dynamic, inspiring, yet highly practical presentations and resources.

Following a highly successful teaching career, Jackie has been a leading player in the development of emotionally intelligent schools with a relentless focus on teaching and learning to raise achievement. As an AST, she was awarded an OBE for her work in developing new approaches to learinng then, later, as a successful Headteacher she introduced a competency curriculum alongside a drive towards the pagagogy that delivers independent learning.

Ofsted commented ‘The dynamic focus by the headteacher and other key leaders, on improving learning is proving very effective in raising standards and has achieved local and national recognition’

In addition, Jackie has worked with SSAT, the Campaign for Learning, the National College for School Leadership and as a School Improvement Partner for Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire LAs. She is a consultant for Oasis Academies, helping to develop their creative competency curriculum and works nationally and internationally in primary and secondary schools training teachers and leaders to raise achievement.

In recent months her contributions to the world of education have included staff and leadership training for emotionally intelligent leadership, ‘good’ to ‘excellent’ teaching and learning, change management using NLP techniques and inspiring the most able children to be resilient learners. She has helped many schools and Academies redesign their curriculum for KS3 both in the UK and abroad following her own experience of leading the introduction of Opening Minds, the RSA competency curriculum, in her own school setting.

She has written A Competency Curriculum Toolkit as a companion to The Learners Toolkit, which has been a best seller for Crown House Publications. Her latest book The Perfect Ofsted Lesson evolved from a popular workshop and has been a runaway success in helping teachers impress inspectors and sustain best practice in learning.

In fact there are few people in education today who have tried harder to bring all the ideas and innovations for 21st century learning to life for implementation in the classroom. Jackie combines a passion for teaching with practical classroom-based ideas and inspiration for emotionally intelligent leadership in a variety of settings. For the last two years she has further developed her expertise in transforming learning to capture the hearts and minds of our young people, working with a huge variety of schools. This has included taking part in a multimedia project for QCA working through Independent Thinking with schools, to improve the engagement of students in learning through new approaches to curriculum design. Click here to see the report that we sent to QCA.

Jackie is now a Master Practitioner of NLP and uses these powerful tools of mind management to inform all her work in education.

Recent feedback conferences and training events include:

• We wanted you to be inspiring and thought provoking and you certainly achieved both…you managed to inject a burst of energy into Friday afternoon and captured the essence of the day with clarity
• Fantastic – inspirational and informative
• Uplifting professionally and personally
• Very useful, would have liked more
• Loads of ideas to take away
• Excellent – not enough time
• Excellent tools
• Very informative and inspiring
• Excellent – class participation enjoyable
• Active and engaging
• Superb, very stimulating
• Realistic and practical ideas.  Clear and down to earth with good involvement of the audience

As a passionate teacher as well as school leader and speaker, Jackie can look at innovations in learning from all sides. She combines practical classroom-based ideas with insights from her experience with school leadership, workforce remodelling, developing lead practitioners, transforming learning and raising achievement for all.

So, why not book Jackie for an Event with your staff, parents or governors (Jackie delivers Events for primary, secondary and further education).

People who have benefited from Jackie have also enjoyed Mike Brearley.

Articles written by Jackie Beere:

• Lessons in Learning to Learn
• Capturing Hearts and Minds
• Learning in the 21st Century
• EQ or IQ?
• Embedding PLTs in whole school practice
• The Perfect (Ofsted) Lesson

Books written by Jackie Beere:

• The Learner's Toolkit: Developing Emotional Intelligence, Instilling Values for Life, Creating Independent Learners and Supporting the SEAL Framework for Secondary Schools
• The Competency Curriculum Toolkit: Developing PLTS Through Themed Learning
• Creating a Learning School
• The Key Stage 3 Learning Kit
• The Primary Learner's Toolkit: Developing Emotional Intelligence, Instilling Values for Life, Creating Independent Learners and Supporting the SEAL Framework for Primary Schools
• The Perfect Ofsted Lesson
• The Perfect Ofsted Inspection

Books edited by Jackie Beere:

• The Perfect Teacher's Coach
• Perfect Assessment for Learning

TV Programmes with Jackie Beere:

• Leave us Kids Alone for BBC 3
• Teacher's TV - ‘One School’s Journey’. This film shows a school seeking to develop more independent learning in the curriculum.  Jackie Beere is one of the consultants offering advice and ideas about transforming learning in this way
• Teacher's TV - ‘One Teacher’s Journey’. This film shows an MFL teacher enlisting the help of Jackie Beere to demonstrate how to implement independent learning in the classroom.

So, if you're looking practical learning strategies for the classroom or ideas, innovations and inspirations to help your school become a learning school then please call the Independent Thinking office on 0844 589 0490 or e-mail us at learn@independentthinking.co.uk

Jackie's CRB number is 001238529055 issued 4th June 2009.

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