The Teaching & Learning Summit: Our speakers

We’ve been fortunate to attract some of the best speakers in the evidence-informed education world for the Teaching & Learning Summit.

Here’s the stellar lineup from the 2026 Teaching & Learning Summit, on the 13th & 14th February 2026.

John Hattie

John has been a professor of education and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since March 2011. He was previously a professor of education at the University of Auckland, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and the University of Western Australia.

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Bradley Busch

Bradley is one of the leading experts on how psychological research can help teachers and students improve how they learn, think and perform. A director of InnerDrive, he is also the co-author of Evidence-Informed Wisdom, Teaching & Learning Illuminated: The Big Ideas, Illustrated and The Science of Learning: 99 Studies That Every Teacher Needs to Know.

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Dr Jo Castellino

Jo Castelino is Curriculum Leader of Science and homework lead in a secondary school. She holds a doctorate and has a special interest in applying cognitive science principles to teaching practice, which she writes about at drcastelino.wordpress.com.

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Rachel Johnson

Rachel Johnson has been the CEO of PIXL since January 2020, leading their network of 2200 schools from every area of education. As well as leading and overseeing the vision and direction of PiXL, she is also a coach, an author and a podcaster. Rachel has released several podcasts: ‘PiXL Pearls’, ‘The PiXL Leadership Bookclub‘ and ‘How do you teach?‘, and is the author of three books including Box Clever.

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Dr. Iro Konstantinou

Iro is the Head of Research and Impact at the Tony Little Centre for Innovation and Research in Learning. She is also a research fellow at Neuroscience for Education, is the manager of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership initiatives, and edits the Eton Journal for Research and Innovation in Education.

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Jonnie Noakes

Jonnie is Director of Teaching and Learning at Eton and the Director of The Tony Little CIRL. An expert in character education, he is also a director of Neuroscience for Education and an editorial board member of the Chartered College of Teaching’s journal Impact.

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Jade Pearce

Jade is trust Head of Education at Affinity Learning Partnership, following on from a previous role as professional development lead across a large trust. With twelve years’ experience teaching Economics and Business, she is passionate about evidence-informed practice. She is the author of What Every Teacher Needs To Know, and regularly writes for education media.

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Alex Quigley

Alex is a former teacher and is now a best-selling author in education. He focuses on teaching and learning, all aspects of literacy, as well as supporting educators to access research evidence. His books include the ‘Closing the Gap’ series and ‘Why Learning Fails (And What to Do About It)’, and he writes a monthly column for TES magazine. Alex works for a national charity which focuses on breaking the link between parental income and educational success.

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Bruce Robertson

Bruce is the author of The Teaching Delusion trilogy and Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching. Bruce is a consultant, trainer and rector of Berwickshire High School, which is now widely recognised as sector-leading in its approaches to teaching & learning improvement, ethos, and staff professional development.

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Prof. Bill Lucas

Professor Bill Lucas is Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester. A prolific writer, speaker and education reformer, he is co-author of books including Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn and Creative Thinking in Schools: a leadership playbook, as well as co-founder of the school leadership coalition Rethinking Assessment.

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