Julian S Wood

A UK Primary Assistant Headteacher.Loves using New Technology to create, inspire & provoke.

Julian S. Wood lives in Sheffield, UK.He started his teaching career aged 28 & has the benefit of working in retail for 10 years.He has been teaching for 15 academic years & has taught in 5 Schools in all year groups.He has been part of Senior Leadership Team for 8 years.

He continues to look for opportunities to improve his knowledge of recent advances in education.He considers himself a life-long learner & loves finding new ways to add to his pedagogy.

Having also been the leader of 5 Creative Partnerships projects, a member of the National QCDA Creative Partners Development Group & creativity co-ordinator for 4 years.

Julian successfully completed the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) course in 2010.

Julian co-created the Creative Partnerships 'inathirdspace' project in 2009.Which partnered teachers & artists,staff used mobile phones to post to a website & used Twitter (@inathirdspace)to give feedback.Julian has also created whole school blogs & websites.

Julian has a wealth of public speaking experience, these include-
• Keynote Speaker at National Conference ‘Delivering an Outstanding Primary ICT Curriculum’
• Open University event ‘Using Web 2.0 technology and Storytelling’
• A 'break-out' session at the ‘Learning without Frontiers’ conference in London
• Julian has also presented at 14 Teachmeets and this is a link to those sessions- http://j.mp/myteachmeets

He has created original workshops and led whole school courses, some of which are-
• A workshop at the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) Future Leaders Course
• Presented at a ‘Thinking Skills’ Conference in Newcastle
• ‘Creative Web 2.0 Learning Provocations’ at the Cape UK Yorkshire Conference
• Workshop about the future for 21st century libraries for the ASCEL national conference
• Workshop for Lincolnshire Council (LfBt) Web 2.0 leaders conference about literacy & new tech
• Workshop on iPads at the Optimus Conference ‘Delivering an Outstanding Primary ICT Curriculum’
• QR code Workshop at Bradford Bmoble Conference