Emma Ahmed

I believe education should empower students & prepare them to make a difference in society;
compassion and inclusivity are imperative. As an educator, my priority is doing the right thing for all
students. I am a re ective thinker who has learnt, grown & modelled alongside early years to high
school students, administrators, teachers & support staff, along a continuum of coaching. Following
Pronouns: she/hers best practice developed from learning science, action research and cognitive coaching, my vision is to
Nationality: British be a supportive change agent who ampli es quality teaching. I am a con dential, non-judgemental
DOB: 3rd May 1983 source of support, challenging colleagues to review & continuously re ne teaching, learning &
Marital status: Married assessment within a culture of learning, supporting students to achieve the school’s guiding statements.
DFE No. (UK): 04/64766

MA International Education and Development (ongoing) | 2023-2024

EDUCATION

University of Sussex – School of Education, Essex House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH

MA Technology, Education and Learning (distinction) | 2016

University of Leeds – School of Education, Hillary Place, Leeds, LS2 9JT

BA (Hons.) Primary Education with Quali ed Teacher Status (2:1) | 2005

Nottingham Trent University – School of Education, Clifton Lane, Clifton, Nottingham, NG11 8NS

Microcredential The Coach | 2020

Eduro Learning, Online

Advanced Certi cate in Cognitive Coaching | 2019

Thinking Collaborative

American International School Lagos - Nigeria (IB DP, CIS, MSA) | 2021 - 2023
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Behind 1004 Estates, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Interim Assistant Principal (2022-2023)
 Supervised & evaluated faculty to support professional growth through appraisal & SMART goals
 Member of the leadership team reviewing and adjusting multi-year strategic plan
 Actively engaged in recruitment of faculty including MSHS Principal & Director of Learning committees
 Articulated a clear vision & provided positive leadership to advance the change process
 Maintained effective communication channels with all stakeholders
 Reviewed and updated signi cant amount of operational procedures and systems in documentation to
promote consistency of practice & enforced these to maximise student learning
 Created and administered MTSS positive discipline policies and procedures, to manage student behaviour
and collaborated closely with teachers, counsellors, and parents to address concerns
 Created a new timetable and master schedule to more effectively meet student and teacher needs
 Supported day-to-day logistics for the effective utilisation of personnel within the school.
Learning Coach (2021-2023)
 Built strong relationships and trust through effective verbal, non-verbal, writing, and listening skills.
 Participated in regular informal and formal classroom visitations and observations, and provided
recommendations, suggestions or questions to promote cognitive shift as appropriate.
 Multi Tiered Systems of Support
 Wrote policies & created procedures for MTSS as member of leadership implementation team
 Developed plans for incorporating personalised learning for gifted students
 Curriculum articulation
 Created 3-year development plan for Readers and Writers Workshop, NGSS adoption for High
School and World Language ACTFL adoption, supported and monitored their execution
 Focused on alignment of AISL’s standards within teams and across grade levels to ensure a
developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive curriculum is planned & delivered using UbD
 Built on current systems of assessment practices collecting and analysing student data, including the use
and interpretation of multiple assessments to monitor growth and inform practice
 Planned overview & led, supported or participated in PD opportunities in line with annual improvement plan
 Domain C co-chair supporting MSA & CIS re-accreditation

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 International Schools Group - Jubail (IB DP, MSA) | 2015 - 2021
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
77 Al Lulu Road, Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Learning Coach (2015-2021)

 Coached teachers through coaching cycles - co-planning, co-teaching & co-assessing
 Curriculum articulation
 Overhauled Curriculum Matrix
 Incorporated C3, NGSS & UN SDGs
 Lead professional development:
 Sought & implemented new hardware and software to enhance teaching & learning
 Induction for new teachers - purpose-designed online programme to prepare teachers
 Collaborated as part of a District-wide coaching team:
 DLC meetings and contributed to shared projects and Critical Friends Group member
 Action research into coaching: district-wide survey leading to program changes
 School Improvement Team member supporting MSA re-accreditation

Chair of Learner Agency Implementation Team (2017-2021)

 Facilitated creation of action plan and led team to accomplish it - signi cant shifts in practice occurred
 Planned and ran Professional Learning sessions for faculty
 Created District-wide hashtag #ISGagency to promote visibility and collate evidence of success

Technology Coordinator (2017-2021)

 Created 3-year development plan for Technology and monitored its’ execution
 Created new initiatives:
 Disbanded IT lessons and facilitated the move to a technology coaching model
 Created and sustained school Twitter hashtag #jaguartale and displayed on TVs for promotion
 Wrote successful funding bids -1:1 laptops for G5, recording studio, ES multipurpose space
 Created 1:1 iPad programme in G1-2; 2:1 devices in G3-5
 Embedded use of Seesaw as a Digital Portfolio, distance-learning tool & window into learning
 Wrote policies and created procedures for running IT department
 Managed budget and responsible for selection, purchasing and distribution of hardware and software

Taihu International School (IB, CIS, WASC, NCCT, ACAMIS) | 2009 - 2015
Jin Shi Road, Bin Hu District, Wuxi, 214121, Jiangsu Province, China
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Head of Technology (2012-2015) & Technology Integrator (2013-2015)

 Advised Director in all areas of technology and deployed and appraised IT administrator
 Designed, created, developed and managed school website
 Wrote a comprehensive primary technology curriculum and ensured vertical alignment with MYP
 Designed, planned and facilitated training and resources, including heading Tech PLC and ICT committee

MYP Design (2011-2015) & PYP homeroom (2009-2011)

 Produced school visual marketing materials including handbooks, adverts and yers
 Mentor to student teacher, Personal Project, Community Project and PYP Exhibition students

Colegio Albania (SACS) | | 2007 - 2009

La Mina, La Guajira, Colombia
 Homeroom 6-8 year olds
 Created units of Inquiry to support young learners to consider world issues

Hillside Primary & Nursery School (Whyburn Primary) | 2005 - 2007

Roberts Lane, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 6LW, England
 Homeroom 7-8 year olds & 9-10 year olds

“All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.”

– Malala Yousafzai
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  Cognitive Coaching Trainer Training with Ochan Powell (06/2023)
 Understanding by Design (05/2023)
 ACTFL: Developing & Assessing the 3 Modes of Communication (04/2023)
 HAGT Challenge for All Summit (02/2023)
PD ATTENDED
 Critically Conscious Educator with Indigenous Teaching & Learning (12/2021)
 NGSS Science with Paul Anderson (2021 | 2020 | 2018)
 Deep Dive in World Language Best Practice with Lori Delanger (02/2021)
 Better Conversations with Jim Knight (02/2021)
 Impact Cycle with Jim Knight (02/2021)
 Formative Assessment with Dylan Wiliam (10/2020)
 Hard Conversations with Jennifer Abrams (09/2020)
 Teaching & Learning Through Inquiry with Kath Murdoch (09/2020)
 Making Thinking Visible with Harvard Project Zero (06/2020)
 Creating Opportunities for Learner Agency with ISS (01/2021)
 Leading for Inquiry with Kimberly Mitchell (11/2019)
 Compass Practitioner L1: Systems Thinking (09/2019)
 Peer Coaching with Stephen Barkley (2016-2017; 2019-20)  Common Sense Media (2020)
 Performance Assessments in the NGSS with Stanford (03/2019)  Seesaw Ambassador (2019)
 TC Readers/Writers Workshop with Emily DeLiddo (05/2017)  Certi ed Google Trainer (2018)
 EAL with Gini Rojas (12/2016)  Book Creator Ambassador (2018)

 Designing Empowering (Distance) Learning, ISTE

 Hack Your PD ISTE
 Unleash the Power of Coaching ISTE
 Students at the Center: Personalised Learning with Habits of Mind - Book Study, ISG
LEADING LEARNING

 Choice Words - Book Study, ISG

 Podcasting to make a Point - Responsible Social Media Activism, Compassion Summit
 Coaching isn’t just for Football!, ISG Learns, Saudi Arabia
 Google 101, ISG Learns, Saudi Arabia
 Google Tips & Tricks, GAfE Summit, Saudi Arabia
 ICT to Enhance the Curriculum, Teaching & Learning Forum, Cali, Colombia
 MYP Design, Redesign Design Education Conference, Wuxi, China

 Our Multi Tiered Systems of Support Journey - The Educator International (TIE)
 Self Directed Learning: What it’s Not - International Schools Magazine
 From Buy in to co-owning: PD without a carrot or a stick- ISN
 Breaking Our Downloading Habit To Really Listen - ISS blog
 Continuing ISG Jubail’s Coaching Conversation - Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud
 Recipe for Success - NESA Educators magazine

Service
ADDITIONAL

 Migrant English Project: Taught informal adult English classes for refugees and vulnerable migrants
 National Junior Honours Society Leader: Organised & ran the AISL NJHS chapter including service projects
 Belonging Group Supervisor: Led LGBTQIA+ group to develop inclusive environment for all identities
 Sunshine Committee: Led staff sunshine committee
 Compassion Summit Coach: Supported students to design short, medium and long-term projects including
training and supervising a successful student peer listening team for social-emotional peer support
 Week Without Walls: Organised and ran three service trips to Nepal visiting the Centre for Disabled Children’s
Assistance in Katmandu including raising money for new legs for amputee ‘Bumika’ and laptops for students
 Community and Service Co-ordinator: Including organising an EXPO to improve quality of projects
 MeToWe: Part of team encouraging elementary students to take positive community action
 Voluntary English teaching: Basic English skills to a local Colombian who could not afford lessons
ASA Teacher Certi cate (Swimming)

Dr Tim Stuart (he/him) Mr Chris Frost (he/him) Dr Andrew Crouse (he/him)

REFEREES

Regional Education Of cer
O ce of Overseas Schools
US Department of State,
+1-202-919-0899
StuartTS@state.gov
Director of Learning
AIS Lagos,
Lagos, Nigeria
+234 907 387 6692
cfrost@aislagos.org
Previous Head of School, ISG Jubail
Superintendent, ACS La Paz
La Paz, Bolivia
+591-2-279-2302
andrew.crouse@acslp.org

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