Jaye Richards-Hill

Jaye has been involved in education and training for nearly thirty years, in industry and schools, latterly as a principal teacher working in a learning community setting, tasked with disseminating research and best practice from nursery through to secondary level. As well as her teaching subject which is Biology, Jaye has specialist qualifications in child developmental psychology and the use of IT to enhance learning and teaching. She has carried out several small pieces of classroom-based research, as well as the only long-term detailed quantitative research on GLOW (the Scottish Schools Intranet) and raising attainment, published in 2009 by the General Teaching Council Scotland. She has also been a regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement Scotland and other publications since 2003.

Jaye left her teaching post at the end of 2010 to look after her two disabled children who both have significant care needs. She has continued her involvement in education as a tutor, consultant, speaker and commentator. She now runs her own Education and social media consultancy business. Most recently, she was asked to join the Scottish Government ICT excellence in Education working group

Jaye’s interests are in effecting a culture change in education where the use of technology and social media to enhance learning and communication is the norm rather than the exception. She is currently writing her first book and relaxes by making clocks from kiln slumped glass bottles!