Dan Buckley

Nationality: British

As winner of the BECTA Secondary Leadership award and the UK National Teacher of the Year award for Innovation and Creativity, Dan Buckley has considerable experience of innovation in learning and teaching.  He established one of the first 1:1 laptop projects and the first learner-led competency based curriculum model to use web based peer assessment.

In his current capacity as Director of Research and Development at Cambridge Education he has developed the PbyP (Personalisation by Pieces) framework which is used by learners of all ages internationally and inspired David Worlock founder of EPS to write "At last personalisation has a national and identifiable pedagogy".   Carole Whitty Deputy president of the NAHT described it as "a revolutionary tool which opens the door to a new pedagogical paradigm."

Dan was commissioned by Microsoft to write their future school visions for the UK 'Building Schools for the Future' initiative and In his capacity as a fellow of 'Education Impact' has developed and delivered envisioning workshops to ministers in numerous countries, the most recent being, Kazakhstan, Morocco and Colombia. Dan has acted in an advisory role in school design, BSF (Building Schools for the Future) consortia, curriculum reform, learner voice, new assessment systems and personalisation.  He has provided keynote presentations at national conferences in over ten countries and has led educational transformation projects in the US and UK.

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Areas of specialization:

• Vision
• Policy and Plan
• Organizational Capacity and Development
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Digital Inclusion
• Innovative solutions
• Curriculum
• Training
• Communities
• Support Strategies
• K12
• 1:1 computing
• Learning Methodologies
• School of the Future
• Innovative teachers
• Speaking opportunity

Regions of specialization

• Europe