JAMES NOTTINGHAM

James Nottingham has been a teaching assistant, teacher and leader in Early Childhood settings and schools across the UK. Now he is the founding director of Challenging Learning, a group of 6 educational companies in 6 countries, including Australia.

James is best known for having created The Learning Challenge, the renowned model that guides learners through the Learning Pit. His new book about this popular approach, The Learning Challenge (2017) is now available through Corwin. He is also the author of 5 other books, including Challenging Early Learning – a book written specifically for Early Childhood teams (in press, due Q4, 2017)

At university, he gained a first class honours degree in education. He then worked as a teacher and leader before co-founding an award-winning, multi-million pound social regeneration project supporting education, public and voluntary organisations across north east England.

In 2009, James was listed among the Future 500 - a “definitive list of the UK’s most forward-thinking and brightest innovators.”

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