Richard Donnelly

I have been working in schools for over 15 years as a teacher and whole school leader of curriculum development. I am interested in expansive curriculum design, especially concept-based learning that enables young people to understand complexity. Recently, I have worked as a project manager delivering transformative experiences disadvantaged for young people; a learning designer delivering a hybrid curriculum  based on the concepts of change-systems-sustainability and circularity and the skills of collaboration-communication-creativity-criticality; as a curriculum consultant supporting schools to be imaginative in the design of both whole school Curriculum and smaller scale curriculum. 

My expertise in modern curriculum design that encourages deeper and liberated learning through; collaborative group learning, collaborative problem solving; project based learning; design thinking; academic rigour; mastery learning; flipped learning and use of technology to enhance learning; community and authentic challenges; memory and long term retention of knowledge & skills; authentic assessment; pragmatic rehearsal of exam skills; metacognition; wider attributes and character; innovation in learning spaces.