This month sees the publication of three major reports with mantle-of-the-expert at the centre of the research they describe.

August 27th, 28th, 29th & 30th, 2009
Weaving our stories - Bringing together educational expertise from the UK and New Zealand. This major international conference is an exciting collaboration bringing together followers and practitioners of Dorothy Heathcote’s dramatic-inquiry approaches from both Britain and New Zealand.

Drama for learning across the Curriculum. We’re pleased to announce our latest programme of activities and events.

This recently established network, formed in association with Newman University College, Birmingham, exists to enable members to learn more about the mantle of the expert approach and to share their ideas and experiences in order to support teachers in their professional development.

In 1971 BBC producer Ron Smedley made an Omnibus programme about using drama with young people. He called the film Three Looms Waiting and it featured the work of Dorothy Heathcote and her student Tom Stabler. What Smedley caught on film was remarkable and made Heathcote’s work famous around the world.

In partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, mantleoftheexpert.com has started the lengthy process of digitising the Heathcote archive, including many Diplomas, B.Phils, MAs, PhD theses, articles and papers written by Heathcote and her students, as well as a vast library of video material from Professor Heathcote’s remarkable career in teaching spanning over 50 years.

Half Moon YPT, Aldgate & Allhallows Barking Exhibitions Foundation
Creative Classrooms was a year long project developed in partnership with four Tower Hamlets primary schools that expressed a desire to explore the possibilities of drama as a cross curricula learning tool and empower their teachers to gain new skills.
It placed drama/theatre practitioners alongside teachers to develop [...]

West Midlands Mantle of the Expert Network presents
A Day with Dorothy Heathcote
Saturday 14 June 2008 - 9.30 – 4.00 - Newman College, Genners Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham, B32 3NT
Dorothy will take delegates the first steps in a mantle of the expert programme – and show how the system can be used to address a range [...]

Join us at Oxford University’s Oriel College from Friday 3 October - Sunday 5 October 2008 for Natd’s annual conference. It’s your chance to work with some of the world’s leading drama teachers. An opportunity to stimulate your mind, refresh your thinking and develop your practice amid glorious surroundings and invigorating company.

We are looking for an established KS2 teacher to join the team from September 2008. Much of our work uses principles of Mantle of the Expert and we are keen to appoint someone with an interest in this way of working.