Keynote+-+Dan+Buckley

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 * Biography - Dan Buckley**
 * ~ Dan started his career as a secondary school teacher, winning a UK National Teacher of the Year award for Innovation and Creativity. He progressed through school management positions, winning the UK BECTA Secondary Leadership award in 2003. In 2004 he joined Mott Macdonald, Cambridge Education eventually becoming their international director of Pedagogy Research and Development. Dan gained further recognition through the Milne Awards in 2006, BETT awards in 2007, invitation to become a Fellow of Education Impact in 2008. In 2010 Dan was commissioned by Microsoft to write the Partners in Learning Worldwide Innovative Schools workshops.

Dan has gained international recognition for his work in the field of school transformation, envisioning and assessment. He has provided keynotes and workshops in over 30 countries including three day future policy envisioning workshops with ministries of education, large scale change management with school districts, advising building consortia on award winning school redesign projects, curriculum reform through the assessment of essential competencies, advising multinational corporations wishing to contribute to change in education, student voice and personalisation. ||~ media type="youtube" key="inlg_gwo_A8" width="320" height="240" "What we need is recognition of 'innovativeness' – getting systems to innovate. Our innovators should be gauged by the number of people they enable to create effective change rather than as individual heroes." // -Dan Buckley ||
 * ~ Student centred personalisation is at the core of Dan’s philosophy for education. Since setting up the first peer assessment system to use ICT in 1989 he has continued to find ways of empowering learners both with and without new technology. In 2000 as a way of prioritising skills development he provided students with teacher training to enable them to teach the curriculum to each other. This required him to set up one of the first 1:1 laptop projects and took his school into the top 20 in terms of value added in the UK. Since then Dan has worked on projects that provide students with voice and choice including designing and implementing the world’s first international peer assessment system for competencies. After 8 years away from the classroom, Dan has now returned to a role that allows him to combine his first love of classroom teaching with student led leadership and the strategic role of bringing together Primary and Secondary school multi academy trusts. ||