Author list

Bradley Busch is a chartered psychologist and director of InnerDrive. He graduated from Loughborough University with distinction and went on to work with Premiership and international footballers from England, Scotland, Wales and Japan. Outside of football, he has worked with elite athletes, helping GB athletes win medals at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games. As well as writing regularly for The Guardian, he is a leading expert on how psychological research can best help students, teachers, athletes and businesses think and perform better.

Click here to view a feature of Release Your Inner Drive' in The Daily Mail.

Click here to listen to Bradley Busch on the BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans show.

Click here to read Bradley Busch’s blog.

Dr Richard Bustin teaches Geography and leads the department at Lancing College, where he is responsible for staff development and teacher training. Richard’s research on curriculum has resulted in multiple publications, invitations to speak at education conferences and work with trainee teachers around the world.

Articles and interviews available

Richard is available for interview, expert comment or bylined articles on a range of topics,

such as:

• Why the curriculum and assessment review should pursue a subject-based curriculum.
• What role should teachers play in shaping the curriculum?
• How can we create a curriculum that is subject-based and knowledge-led?
• What is ‘powerful knowledge’ and why is it important for the curriculum?
• What is the ‘capability approach’ and why is it important for the curriculum?

 

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Oliver Button is Deputy Headteacher at Albany school in Enfield and formerly he was Assistant Headteacher at Villiers High School.

Donald C Brown, BSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, ABFP, is an approved consultant in Medical Hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Brown was Founding Director, Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University Medical School. He is licensed to practise family medicine and medical hypnosis therapy in Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr. Brown is currently involved in full-time private practice as a consultant in medical hypnosis.

Martin C. Clader, MA, CSQW, managed child protection and domestic abuse services in the City of Salford before he established Calder Training and Consultancy to further develop front-line assessment frameworks and practice.

Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D. ABPP was a Distinguished Professor of Adlerian Psychology at Adler University, Chicago, Illinois and a psychologist with the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Jon authored over 60 books in many areas including psychotherapy, family therapy, marital enrichment, consultation, loneliness and Adlerian psychology. He also produced over 300 videos featuring the world's best therapists.

Becky Carlzon is an optimistic primary school teacher who specialises in the Learning Power Approach (LPA). She has adapted the LPA successfully while teaching students of all ages in the UK, Argentina, and Thailand over the last twelve years. Becky's practice is underpinned by the design principles outlined in Powering Up Children. Through staying connected with LPA schools and fellow practitioners, Becky is at the forefront of LPA practice across the globe. Her latest thoughts, reflections, and findings can be found on her website and blog: www.learningpowerkids.com.

Mariette Castellino is a coach, team coach and facilitator in the public, private and voluntary sectors. She has an MA in Management Learning and is one of the pioneers of the application of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling in organisations. She co-developed The Five-Minute Coach and is currently using it to facilitate new thinking in businesses as well as all kinds of communities.

Stephen Chapman is the Managing Director of Dragonfly Training Ltd and has delivered CPD at hundreds of schools in the UK and internationally. Formerly an innovative history teacher, Stephen has a proven track record of success in schools in London, Nairobi and The Bahamas.

As with so much in life a book is a fantastic start but if you want to take things further then it's probably best to experience it for yourself. Improving Classroom Performance has been delivered as a training day to hundreds of schools.

Each of the three authors can deliver this training day, and you can be sure that it will conform to the Dragonfly promise of being totally practical, and delivered in a hands-on and entertaining manner.

To book this course as an in school training session please contact Stephen Chapman, MD Dragonfly Training at info@dragonfly-training.co.uk or visit www.dragonfly-training.co.uk for further references. You may even like to call him on +44 (0) 29 2071 1787.

Pete Chapman, a Lincolnshire farm boy had dreams of making it big and became British Bodybuilding Champion in 1991. After breaking his drug dependency and body obsession, he studied yoga, nutrition, philosophy and many other healing arts and this led to his own radio fitness show. He has run a gym, trained professional athletes and has worked with youth groups to develop drug rehab and wellness programmes. Now living and working in the US, Pete mentors and trains teenagers to be healthy and successful.

Graham Chatterley was a school leader who has since led training for thousands of educators across the North of England. He believes that adults play a pivotal role in the behaviour of students and that a culture of teaching children behaviour, rather than managing it, is key.