people and partnerships
board of trustees
The board has seven distinguished trustees who will support and guide the project in the future:
Kate Cross
Kate Cross is the Director of the egg at Theatre Royal Bath, a brand new theatre for children and young people imbued from the start with a sense of youngness, relevance and playfulness. Prior to her appointment at the Theatre Royal Bath in 1999, Kate worked at Salisbury Playhouse as Education Officer, at the Beaford Arts Centre in Devon as Community Arts Worker, at Colway Theatre Trust as a community play producer and as a freelance arts worker and playwork trainer.
Dame Tamsyn Imison
Dame Tamsyn Imison is an Education Strategist and former headteacher of Hampstead School from 1984 to 2000. She holds degrees from Queen Mary College and the Open University and is an honorary fellow of Somerville College Oxford, Queen Mary College and the Institute of Education, London University. She has been trustee, member or chair of education bodies including the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education, Secondary Headteachers' Association (now ASCL) and their Executive; the Department of Education and Science steering groups on Initial Training INSET and Supporting Multicultural Education, She chaired the University of London Careers Board until 2004, is a trustee of the Society for the Furtherance of Critical Philosophy, The Lifelong Learning Foundation and has been actively involved with the National Teaching Awards since its inception. She has presented and published work on leadership, ICT, Schools of the Future, Creativity, Post 16 and Women Leaders. She is also currently a consultant for ASCL MAPS. Tamsyn was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1998.
Sally Jaeckle
Sally Jaeckle is the Regional Adviser for the Foundation Stage, (DfES) in the South West working for Sure Start and the National Strategies. Following a first degree in Drama and Education, Sally has had a lifelong interest in establishing the importance of creativity and creative approaches to learning for children, particularly in their youngest years. She has worked for many years as an early years teacher, both in the United States and the UK, a lecturer in early childhood studies and an advisory teacher, and was formerly Early Years Adviser in Bristol. An artist and educator, she is passionate about life-wide and life-long creativity. Her aim is to improve the life chances of children through developing their confidence in themselves as creative learners, thinkers and problem solvers with higher levels of motivation and engagement in their learning.
Mary Tasker
Mary Tasker is the Chair of Human Scale Education, previously a lecturer in education at Bath University. Mary champions children's voices in education. Human Scale Education is an education reform movement committed to small scale learning communities based on the values of democracy, fairness and respect. HSE works directly with schools and parents to promote human scale learning environments where children and young people are known and valued as individuals.
Professor Stephen Ward
Professor Stephen Ward is Dean of the School of Education at Bath Spa University. He taught in primary and secondary schools in Leeds before entering teacher training in 1980. He has run initial and inservice teacher training courses at Bath Spa as well as their Education Studies programme. He has published books on the primary curriculum, teaching music and Education Studies. He is chair of the British Education Studies Association.
Dr Jack Whitehead
Dr Jack Whitehead is Lecturer in Education at Bath University and has published widely on Living Educational Theory. Jack also works in the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice. He is on the Editorial Boards: Educational Action Research; Reflective Practice; Action Research; Learned Societies; British Educational Research Association (BERA); American Educational Research Association; Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices. His main research interests are in the values of education, researching the education of social formations through connecting the living educational theories of practitioner researchers.
Mike Young
Mike Young is an educational consultant. Mike taught in secondary schools for 15 years, starting as an English and Drama teacher and leaving as the deputy head of a 14-19 upper school in Suffolk. During this time Mike gained a Master's degree in applied research. He then worked in Dorset local authority as an adviser, progressing to deputy director with responsibilities including teacher development, school improvement and inclusion. Mike also worked for OfSTED as a secondary registered inspector up to 2003, when he became Director of Education for Bath and North East Somerset, until 2006. Mike is currently a consultant, mainly advising local authorities on leadership and strategy but also undertaking some work with schools.
