Ron is an Assistant Headteacher at The Ridgeway School in Swindon and is a qualified NLP Practitioner and youth coach . His workshops have been hailed as outstanding and Ron is now in demand from schools across the country.
Damian is a serving Headteacher, is in his second headship, and has just returned from a secondment at another primary school. Over the last twenty years he has taught at a wide range of schools and been a head since 2001.
Richard has always been passionate about understanding how we learn. Together with Professor Burden of the University of Exeter he has developed an approach which is having a significant impact on the teaching of thinking in schools in the UK and abroad.
Nick spent 27 years in teaching, 10 of those as a Deputy Headteacher in a large and thriving comprehensive before setting up his own very successful education consultancy.
Fiona is a freelance educational consultant who has been involved with primary education for more than thirty years. She is passionate about children’s learning, and has had extensive experience in large and small schools, in rural and urban areas and has taught overseas.
Nanette has worked in most sectors of education – primary, middle, secondary and further education and until July 2005 was headteacher of a highly successful primary school in Hemel Hempstead.
Teresa is a former secondary Headteacher who maintained a career-long interest in both the creation of a relevant and enriching secondary curriculum and the development, for students, of transportable, personal skills.
Following a career in secondary schools in West Sussex and Wiltshire Richard joined the advisory service of Wiltshire LEA. Here he worked with a number of national companies and together they developed resources and approaches to the teaching of thinking which supported schools across Wiltshire. In 2001 Richard established Kestrel Education and with a team of people with a similar passion began a programme of training for teachers in schools across the UK. Richard also began work with Gill Hubble, Associate Principal of St Cuthbert's College in New Zealand and she has continues to work with Kestrel.
Kestrel also works closely with David Hyerle, creator of Thinking Maps and Art Costa, creator of Habits of Mind. Professor Anna craft at the University of Exeter is now working with Kestrel on the development of the Learning Conversations project.
Kestrel is the only UK company able to offer accredited training in Thinking Maps.
Kestrel's work is endorsed by Art Costa.
In 2005 Richard began work with Professor Bob Burden at the University of Exeter to develop a whole-school approach to the teaching of thinking. This has proved very successful and there are now schools across the country working in this way.
The Kestrel team members are all people with on-going experience of working in schools and also, like Richard, work closely with the university. In addition we are able to offer support by serving headteachers and senior leaders.