The National Committee constitutionally consists of the President, Vice President, Treasurer and six committee members plus the immediate Past President, a UK delegate to the World Council for Gifted Children and a delegate to the European Council for High Ability.
PRESIDENT
Sue Mordecai
Sue is currently Principal Adviser with a Local Authority with particular responsibility for the Secondary National Strategy. In addition she takes the lead in the education of gifted and talented pupils for all phases. Sue is President of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) and sits on the Partnership Board of London ChallengeGT. Sue was the inaugural chair of the LondonGT advisory group. She has been an adviser to QCA and the DfES on a number of initiatives and has had several articles published in a range of academic journals. Sue is a consultant to the publishers Rising Stars and a consultant editor to Gifted Education International. She is an associate consultant to Fieldwork Education Services delivering INSET in Europe and the USA. Sue is an associate tutor and external adviser to the CPD Directorate on the gifted and talented programme for Oxford Brookes University. She is an education adviser to the international Charles Darwin Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
VICE PRESIDENT
Hilary Lowe
Academic Development Director at the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University, and a former senior manager in a secondary comprehensive school. She is the Project Director for the National Training Programme for Gifted and Talented Co-ordinators in the government's Excellence in Cities programme. She has contributed to a number of consultative and advisory groups in gifted and talented education, including the DfES, QCA and the National Strategy and is a member of the London Challenge's Gifted and Talented Partnership Group. She has been involved in the development and evaluation of the Quality Standards for Gifted and Talented Education.
Hilary has written and published widely on gifted and talented education and broader educational matters and was the joint editor of 'Provision for the Gifted and Talented in the Secondary Curriculum' and most recently author for 'The New Professionals' Handbook' on teaching able pupils and educational leadership. Hilary has a particular interest in educational policy and teachers' professional development. She has served on NACE National Committee for 4 years.
TREASURER
Dr Peter Holding
Peter Holding is the Head of a selective co-educational school in Buckinghamshire, the chairman of the Buckinghamshire Association of Secondary Heads and a member of the board of the Bucks Academy for School Leadership. He has been involved with Able, Gifted and Talented education for nearly 30 years, and a NACE member for most of that time. He grew up in the United States and was educated both there and in England, with a Masters degree from the Shakespeare Institute and a doctorate in English literature from the University of Michigan. After a short period as a university lecturer in the US, he worked as a teacher of English, a Head of Drama, Head of English and then Deputy Head in schools in London and Warwickshire. His most recent interests include work to support education in rural South Africa, and he is a trustee of the Zanyeni Trust, a charity established to support the work of schools in one of the poorest parts of the Eastern Cape province.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Julie Fitzpatrick
Julie started work as a primary teacher, has lead national education training and consultancy businesses, was deputy project manager for the national data collection of Key Stages 2 and 3 teacher assessments and test results, has managed major national contracts for DfES, as was, and QCA. Has worked as an adviser to local authorities, an Ofsted inspector, an education lecturer and adviser to the Maltese Government. She is the author of science and maths books for young children and many articles for teachers. She was the winner of a national education award for enterprise work with pupils, including able, gifted and talented children.
DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP SERVICES
Johanna Raffan
Johanna has had many years teaching experience and was a Headteacher for 25 years in Nursery, Primary and Middle schools. She was a founder member of NACE and is a past President. She is Consultant on More Able & Talented to the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (ACCACC). She is an Executive Member of the European Council for High Ability and is a UK delegate for the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. She is a Council member of the College of Teachers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Education Adviser on Able Children to the Government of Madeira.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Belle Wallace
Editor 'Gifted Education International';
Past Executive Member of World Council G/T; National/
International Consultant G/T; extensive publications in
the field; specialist interest in Problem-solving and
Thinking Skills.
REP. ON WORLD COUNCIL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN
Prof Deborah Eyre
Karen Adams-Shearer
Rachel Beyer
Mary Fitzpatrick
Mary is a Vice Principal in a large provincial secondary school in Oxfordshire. She has many years teaching experience in secondary schools in both the inner city and the provinces. For a short period she held a research fellowship in the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. Her main focus was working on developing provision for able students and providing in-service training for teachers. She is particularly interested in the systems and procedures schools adopt to recognise the individuality of students with high ability and ways they then cater for these individual needs. She is especially interested in the kind of able individual, who does not conform to the traditional stereotype of high ability, who will not necessarily go on to higher education, eg, able entrepreneurs or students with autistic spectrum disorders. She has been involved in a number of mentoring projects to provide support for able students.
Michael Jones
Linda Prestidge
Valerie Scott
Michael Sheridan
B A C K T O T O P
TRUSTEES
Ben Barton
Ben has worked in education for 15 years including time at Pearson, Granada Learning and Harcourt. He co-owns and runs Rising Stars specialising in books and software for children of all abilities. He is a member of the Educational Publishing Council and St Nicolas School PSA. Ben has three children under 7 and works in the school library 3 days a term
Julie Graham
Involved with NACE for 20 years. Interested in planning using Multiple Intelligences and Bloom's Taxonomy
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