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NALDIC is run by a 9 member executive committee with the help of co-opted executive committee members. Three executive members are elected annually and the association Chair is elected every three years. The Executive committee involves members in developing the work of the association through its sub-committees and through the General Council

The NALDIC Executive Committee 2009-2010

Helen Abji

Helen is an independent consultant having had many years experience in secondary EAL, the multicultural anti-racist field, and the management of services in Bedfordshire and Luton. One of her main interests is in teacher education related to EAL, and she contributed to NALDIC's work on specialist teacher standards. She chaired the association from 1998 to 2001. As honorary secretary, Helen works to strengthen NALDIC's administrative processe in order to support its central role within educational debates on the education of pupils of minority linguistic heritages. Helen currently co-chairs the Events committee.

Carrie Cable

Carrie is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University. She has experience of working with pupils and teachers in both primary and secondary schools, and of running training courses for teachers in both phases. As a long standing committee member, Carrie has contributed to the development of the Association's work as well as editing Naldic News for many years. She is a member of the Publications Committee, has contributed to a number of NALDIC publications and was co-editor of the first NALDIC book English as an Additional Language: Changing Perspectives. Her research interests include teacher and teacher assistant training. Carrie is co-chair of the Research committee.

Nicola Davies - Chair

Nicola has worked in the EAL field for many years both in the UK and overseas as a teacher, trainer, adviser, consultant and inspector. Her particular interest is in the application of newer technologies to support the language and curriculum learning of EAL learners across a range of contexts.  She was co-opted to the committee in 1999 to manage the development of the NALDIC website. She was deputy chair from 2001-2004 and currently chairs the Executive and the Finance and Administration committee. Nicola is currently an adviser for a local authority.

Richard Gifford

Richard has been a senior Language Support teacher in Kent and Medway since 1992 and worked for a short while as Oxfam's Education Adviser.  As a member of a QCA/SCAA working party, he co-authored the 1996 guidance paper on language in science. He also authored a chapter on new arrivals in Maggie Gravelle's 2001 book Planning for Bilingual Learners and contributed to a series of article on using video as a tool for language development for the TES. He is committed to building mainstream capacity for inclusive support for pupils with EAL and the promotion of diversity and race equality. He brings to committee not only insights from his practical classroom experience but also those from his experience of informal classroom research and professional development.

Sara Green - Deputy Chair

Sara has worked in the field of EAL since 1985, first as a peripatetic teacher in secondary schools in several ILEA authorities and then in a variety of advisory roles working cross-phase in London and Kent and in senior management posts within LEA central services. She is currently Head of the Language Development Service in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea having previously been Head of the Primary and Secondary EAL teams in Newham. Sara has been a NALDIC member since 1994 and was Treasurer from 2001- 2005. She continues to make a positive contribution to the work of NALDIC in the role of deputy chair.

Frank Monaghan - Deputy Chair

Frank is currently a Staff Tutor in Education at the Open University, having previously been an EAL teacher at North Westminster Community School in London for many years. He has published on EAL and Mathematics and the use of ICT in bilingual education. He authored a NALDIC Occasional Paper on the role of the EAL teacher in the mathematics classroom. Frank is a long standing member of NALDIC and the deputy chair. He previously chaired the Publications committee and is the co-ordinating editor of NALDIC Quarterly

Amy Thompson

Amy is an advisor in Medway. She previously led the Ethnic Minority Achievement Team in Lambeth and the English Language Support Service in Surrey. She has been involved in the field of EAL/ESL since 1983, having started her teaching career in MFL. She has been head of department in secondary schools but also has experience of cross phase teaching support. Her main research interest is in bilingual development, and in particular, the use of dual language approach in the mainstream classroom to support EAL learners. She is a member of the CILT Community Languages Advisory Group, a member of the Wider Languages Committee of ALL, and is a founding member of the UK Federation of Chinese Schools (www.ukfcs.info) and a long-serving member of its Education Committee. Amy is currently NALDIC's treasurer and co chairs the Finance and Admin committee.

Peta Ullmann

Peta is an adviser for the Ethnic Minority Achievement Service in the Advisory and Inspection Service in Essex. She is currently a has worked in the field of EAL and race equality as a teacher and adviser for 27 years. She has worked across all phases of education in Greater Manchester and Essex and has been a member of NALDIC since its inception.She has contributed articles to NALDIC Quarterly and is an active member of the Publications committee. Peta co-ordinates NALDIC's Isolated Bilingual Learners network and chairs the membership and communication committee.

Co-opted Executive Members 2009-2010

Jannis Abley

Jannis has extensive experience of working in schools in Redbridge and has specialised in EAL and ethnic minority support since 1989. She has been Deputy Head, Deputy Manager and CPD co-ordinator of the Redbridge Ethnic Minority Achievement Service and is currently a Secondary EMA Consultant for Redbridge School Improvement Team. Jannis has also co-ordinated and tutored the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching EAL which Redbridge has run in partnership with the Institute of Education. Prior to her co-option to the Executive she was a member of NALDIC General Council and continues to chair the East London regional NALDIC group.

Steve Cooke

Steve Cooke is an independent consultant who until recently worked as a Regional Adviser (EAL) for the National Strategies. Before joining the National Strategies he was the Service Manager of Ethnic Minority Services in Nottingham City Children’s Services. He has worked in the field of English as an Additional Language (EAL) teaching since 1982 as a teacher and head of department. He was involved in the NFER Partnership Teaching Project in 1989/90 and was featured in the published video material which resulted from the project. From 1992 to 2002 he was an EAL Project Manager in Leicester. He is also a distance learning tutor for the Birmingham University Bilingualism in Education Masters course. He has contributed articles to several publications and is the author of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom. Steve was Chair of the Association from 2005 to 2007.

Angela Creese

Angela Creese is Professor of Educational Linguistics at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. She is a long standing NALDIC member and has authored a number of NALDIC Occasional papers, most recently co-authoring an occasional paper on complementary and mainstream schooling. She chairs NALDIC's Publications committee.

Dianne Excell

Dianne has worked in many of Bradford’s inner city schools with EAL students for 20 years and is currently EMA and Literacy Co-ordinator at Feversham College - the first Voluntary-Aided Muslim girls’ secondary school in the country. Through observation of students and analysis of their work, she has developed strategies to help individual students unlock more of their potential. She has also advised colleagues and those in other Bradford schools, on how to use literacy to raise attainment across the curriculum. She has been a member of NALDIC’s General Council for 3 years and represented the association at QCA. She has contributed articles to NALDIC Quarterly on baseline reading tests and formal assessments in KS3.

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