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Assistant Director for School and Professional Development
Matt has worked at secondary school and cross-phase at local authority level, and now works as an assistant director in the school and professional development strand, with a focus on local leaders of mathematics education (LLME).
School Improvement Lead (Greenshaw Learning Trust)
Rhiannon Rainbow is a maths teacher with 20 years’ experience teaching secondary. Rhiannon completed a 3 year BSc Hons QTS Primary Maths EY before moving to secondary. She is an NCETM accredited SMS, C5, and PD Lead and part of the NCETM MAT Maths Leads delivery team. She also is an LLME in her local Maths Hub and runs the secondary SKTM.
Anne-Marie Cray has more than 30 years' experience as a Speech and Language Therapist working with children, young people and families in early years, primary, secondary settings. She specialised in working with young people who have social, emotional and mental health needs in specialist settings and alternative providers. Anne-Marie joined Speech and Language UK in 2019 and has been involved in the delivery of several projects as well as developing and delivering training and workshops. She is also part of Speech and Language UK's Family Support team delivering parent webinars and providing support for families and practitioners on the advice line.
Dr Susan Richards is a speech and language therapist with over 20 years’ experience working with children and families in early years, primary and secondary settings. During that time, she has combined her clinical role with a research career, most recently as a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University. She has been part of Speech and Language UK’s advisory team over the last five years and currently leads on projects focusing on supporting the Home Learning Environment in areas of disadvantage as well as contributing to strategic support for local authorities nationally in developing their speech, language and communication pathways.
I currently lead Teaching & Learning teams within Warwickshire’s Integrated Disability Service, which brings together a range of professionals and services including Specialist Teachers and Teaching Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Child Development Services, Portage, and Early Years’ Specialists.
Prior to this, I managed Warwickshire’s Statementing Service. I am an experienced senior secondary leader, having taught in schools in Birmingham, Staffordshire and Wolverhampton.
I have been a Senior European Foundation for Quality Management Assessor for Midlands Excellence and a C4EO Disability Sector Specialist. I am Vice Chair of pdnet, an organisation representing professionals who work to improve outcomes for learners with physical disabilities. I am also a qualified Coach.
My background includes over 30 years of experience of both mainstream and special education sectors including 10 years as a Governor for a local secondary school. I am an experienced manager and have contributed to work streams at a local, county, regional and national level to develop provision and policy which contributes to better outcomes for CYP with SEND.
I currently lead Physical Disability and Sensory teams within Gloucestershire’s Advisory Teaching Service, which comprises a range of professionals and services including Specialist Teachers, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language therapists and specialist roles including Early Years, Mobility and Assistive Technology roles.
I am National Chair of pdnet, a national organization representing professionals who work within the physical disability sector.
Scotty’s Little Soldiers is a charity dedicated to supporting children and young people, 0 to 25 years, who have experienced the death of a parent who served in the British Armed Forces.
Inspired by the experience of Army widow Nikki Scott, following the death of her husband, Corporal Lee Scott, in Afghanistan in 2009, the charity, which was set up in 2010, provides support and guidance to hundreds of bereaved military children and young people throughout their childhood.
When a young person joins Scotty’s, they become a member and are supported until their 25th birthday. Whether it be one-to-one bereavement support, a respite break with the family, an opportunity to meet others in a similar situation, or access to extracurricular activities, Scotty’s is always there for its members to ensure they don’t feel alone.
So far this year, Scotty’s has supported over 700 children and young people and services are delivered through three Family Programmes.
Dr Juhayna Taha is a Lecturer in Language and Literacy at UCL's Institute of Education and an expert in child language development and disorders. She conducts research, spanning multiple countries and languages, to identify the language, reading and cognitive profiles of children with typical language development, including bilinguals, and those with language learning disorders. She has developed evidence-based screening measures for developmental language disorder and dyslexia. As a qualified speech and language therapist, Juhayna has extensive clinical experience supporting students with Speech, Language, and Communication Needs (SLCN). Juhayna is also a science communicator, having written several blogs, delivered public seminars, and trained teachers and practitioners.
Dr Josselyn Hellriegel is Clinical Psychologist with a specialist interest and experience in paediatric neuropsychology and neurodevelopmental disorders. She has enjoyed working with children, young people and their families helping them focus on a child’s/young person’s unique strengths and address potential difficulties. She has worked in a range of clinical settings, primarily within the NHS, over the past 15 years. Currently, she is working in a social and neuropaediatric setting abroad.
Beth has worked as an Occupational Therapist for the last nineteen years, supporting children, young people, and families across health, education, and social care. She has managed integrated OT services in these sectors and worked internationally, bringing a wealth of expertise to her practice. As an advanced sensory integration practitioner and a passionate advocate for sensory processing and integration, Beth leads the Sensory Inclusive Schools project for Sensory Integration Education. Through this role, she delivers training, raises awareness about sensory processing, and empowers schools to create environments where every student can thrive.
Tina Coope, a former teacher and parent with extensive experience in special and mainstream education, initially became volunteer Education Lead at PANS PANDAS UK in 2021. She developed the UK's first teacher training on PANS and PANDAS and has created multiple professional resources.
Emma Simpson has worked in education for 27 years, as a teacher, leader, consultant and researcher. Her work has mostly been in inner London schools and has prompted an increasing interest in and commitment to issues of social equality. She joined The Difference (education charity which promotes inclusive practices) in 2023 as the Senior Research Manager. Over the last year she has been conducting research into Internal Alternative Provision in order to establish the range of approaches being taken by schools and what strong practice looks like.
I have been the strategic lead for SEND and Inclusion across the James Montgomery Academy Trust for the past 2 years which has 20 mainstream primary schools, 2 with LA resource provisions and 2 MAT funded resource provisions. I taught in a mainstream primary school for 7 and half years before moving to a secondary special school where I became assistant head and Head of Fusion SEND Hub for 15 years. During this time, I was seconded by Sheffield Local Authority one day a week to be a Citywide SENDCo for SEND across Sheffield to support mainstream, specialist and Integrated Resources.
I am the DfE local lead for the Engagement Model and work with 2 teaching school hubs to develop the ECF SEND materials for ECTs, NPQSEN and NPQLT materials and facilitate on each of these. I am a member of the National Network of Specialist Provision, a trustee of the Equals charity and a member of the advisory board for Evidence for Learning. I work with each of these groups to develop and create materials for children with SEND and support the development of networks between both specialist and mainstream colleagues.
Danny Sweatman is Lead Practitioner for Inclusion and Safeguarding, SENCo and Head of Nurture at Aylsham High School – a genuinely inclusive mainstream secondary school in Norfolk. Following three years of teaching in a primary school in Kent, Danny moved to Aylsham to take on the role of re-engaging KS3 students who had a range of complexities that prevented them from fully accessing education. Now into his 19th year of teaching, Danny and his colleagues at Aylsham have developed an award-winning Nurture provision that provides an inclusive and aspiring pathway for vulnerable students, removing barriers to learning and ensuring that their academic, social and emotional needs are met. Danny was awarded with ‘Teacher of the Year 2023’ in the Norfolk Education Awards and is a real advocate for promoting inclusion, making mainstream schools a place where all students can flourish.
Margaret Mulholland is a specialist in inclusivity and Special Educational Needs. She is advisor on SEND policy for the Association of School and College Leaders and Whole School SEND Project Director leading an evaluation for the Education Endowment Foundation.
A leading advocate for the role SEND settings play in improving understanding of inclusive teaching and learning, Margaret brings over 20 years experience in ITT innovation and practice. She spent seven years as Director of Development & Research at a leading Special School and thirteen years at the Institute of Education, where she was responsible for innovative employment based routes to QTS, PGCE secondary partnerships and a Challenge Partners school leadership programme. Margaret sits on the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers, is an advisor to the UK Government on ITT curriculum development and works with local authorities as an external advisor for NQTs, ITT and leadership development. She is also writes a column on research and inclusivity for the Times Educational Supplement.
Dr Matt Silver is the CEO and Founder of The Glass House Leadership Lab – an educational coaching and system consultancy group that believes the catalyst to system transformation is the personal development of leaders, teachers and learners. His doctoral action research whilst a Head and CEO was based in curriculum, culture and system design using frameworks of human development, motivation, and engagement theory.
The Glass House’s subsequent national and international work is based on co-designing innovative digital systems with system leaders and facilitating their teams to embody and embed consistent human growth within their organisations. His new book ‘Reinventing Education’ lays out the deeper states and stages of human, culture, and educational maturity and how to integrate all stakeholders, no matter their lens, to build momentum.
Chris has been a teacher since qualifying in 2011. He has worked both in the classroom and in school leadership in a local authority school in Gloucester before joining a local multi-academy trust in 2019. He leads the primary reading network for Greenshaw and has spoken at both the UKLA conference and ResearchEd. Chris has a passion for reading children’s literature and works collaboratively with the Cheltenham Literature Festival with all things reading, striving for everyone to become a reader through research-informed approaches.
Kayleigh is a highly skilled mental health professional with a wealth of experience in both clinical and educational settings. She has 17 years of experience in mental health, psychological assessment, therapeutic interventions, and programme development.
Kayleigh has been instrumental to the development of many of the projects delivered across the schools division, notably leading on and co-creating the content for Autism and Wellbeing, Intermediate Senior Mental Health Lead, Self Harm in schools and Parental Partnership programmes. She has also led on the delivery of a comprehensive international package for Nord Anglia Schools, training up Senior Mental Health Leads across the world and providing reflective supervision spaces.