ADES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professional Development Officer
- Professional Development Officer ( Lead )
Colin has been involved in Education for over 34 years and latterly with the wider Children's Service Agenda. Graduating from Glasgow University and then Southampton in 1985 he started working in Glasgow as a Secondary Maths Teacher. Promoted posts included Depute Headteacher in St Modan's High School, Stirling and then Headteacher of St Columba's High School in Dunfermline where he led the school for 6 years.
In 2007, he secured the position of Director, Education Services, Dumfries and Galloway Council.
He has led an approach to CfE in the Authority which has sought to maximise empowerment for schools and support local solutions while emphasising the importance of strong collaboration. A successful VSE in 2015 was used to review the specific objective in Dumfries and Galloway's business plan to:
Job Titles:
- President
- Director in Glasgow
- Director of Education Glasgow
Douglas is currently Director in Glasgow having previously been Depute Chief Executive and Director - People at South Ayrshire Council and Director of Education and Head of Education at South Ayrshire. Douglas has worked as HM Inspector with Education Scotland before which he was principal educational psychologist in South Ayrshire. Prior to working as an educational psychologist Douglas was a pupil support teacher after starting his teaching career as a secondary teacher of religious and moral education.
Job Titles:
- General Secretary
- Secretary
Peter McNaughton was, until October 2019, Head of Education and Children's Service in Fife Council. Prior to that he was Head of Education in Midlothian Council. For over ten years, Peter worked for first, HMIE, and then Education Scotland. As an HMI, he inspected in all sectors, including inspections of early years, prisons and local authorities. Latterly, he was heavily involved in local authority support and challenge, as a District Inspector and then as an Assistant Director. Prior to that, Peter was a Primary teacher, Assistant Headteacher and a Headteacher of two schools in West Lothian.
Job Titles:
- Vice President / Executive Director, P & K Council
Sheena is Executive Director (Education and Children's Services) in Perth and Kinross.
She has had a long and varied career in education working in a range of schools in different posts, including being headteacher in two schools in different areas of Scotland.
She has had the privilege of two national secondments - one as a full time Associate Assessor with HMIe and the other as a Professional Adviser to the Scottish Executive during the early development days of Curriculum for Excellence.
Since August 2007 she has worked first as Service Manager with Education and Children's Services and then as Head of Education - Early Years and Primary. She took up her current post as Executive Director in October 2015.