Jackie’s teaching career began in Further Education (Northern Ireland), then switched to Secondary MFL (Stockport). As a committed mentor for Early Career teachers, she became the Leader of a large Training School, and then made a move to the TDA to support Training Schools in the North West and the West Midlands. Subsequent regional and national roles in teacher recruitment, initial teacher training and inspection, professional learning and school partnership followed. Jackie is Co-Founder and Network Leader for WomenEdNI, and supports the values and vision of the WomenEd movement. An advocate of DiverseEd, she was a chapter editor for DiverseEd: A Manifesto. Jackie is passionate about helping schools to celebrate diversity, and become inclusive and equitable places for staff, students and their families. She is very proud to be a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College.
