The Chartered College of Teaching is pleased to announce the membership of the Advisory Group for the EdTech Evidence Board project, funded by the Department for Education and announced by the Secretary of State for Education in her keynote address at BETT 2025.
Ultimately, the EdTech Evidence Board will take an evidence-based approach to evaluating the effectiveness and impact of EdTech products, reviewing evidence submitted by EdTech suppliers using a defined set of criteria. The criteria will be informed by research evidence and developed in consultation with subject matter experts, suppliers, schools and colleges.
In the current phase of the project, we are working in collaboration with teachers, school and college leaders, EdTech providers and others within the education and EdTech sectors to inform our approach to the Evidence Board process and to develop the criteria that will be used to assess EdTech products.
The newly announced Advisory Group will play a key role in reviewing and advising on the criteria being developed and on the approach to the Evidence Board, including membership of the Evidence Board itself and approaches to the assessment of evidence. Building on the successful development of criteria in Spring, we plan to invite evidence submissions to a pilot phase of the Board later this year.
We believe that the EEB will have a positive impact on the sector by driving critical thinking among schools and EdTech providers about the impact and measurement of EdTech products, helping education settings feel confident that they are choosing products that work well for them and for their classrooms.
A list of Advisory Group members is included below. The group includes educators, researchers and edtech experts, with wider opportunities for stakeholders to be involved in consultation and project development through our open survey and our call for evidence.
| Full name | Job affiliation |
| Joe Arday | Computer Science Teacher at Brentwood County High School |
| Dr Fiona Aubrey-Smith | Founder, One Life Learning; Associate Lecturer at The Open University |
| Hajar Bellazrak | Lead Practitioner for Digital Learning at Portsmouth Academy |
| Professor Alison Clark-Wilson | Professorial Research Fellow at UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London |
| Antonia Clary | Lead Researcher at European EdTech Alliance |
| Professor Tom Crick MBE | Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University |
| Michael Forshaw | CEO of EdTech Impact |
| Antoinette Hamilton | Digital Curriculum Advisor at The Stour Academy Trust |
| Sean Harris | Director of People, Learning and Community Engagement at Tees Valley Education Child Poverty Doctoral Researcher at Teesside University |
| Scott Hayden | Head of Teaching, Learning, and Digital at Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) |
| Libby Hills | Senior Advisor at Jacobs Foundation |
| Joysy Johns MBE | EdTech advisor and innovation consultant; Computer Science Educator at Parliament Hill School |
| David Monis Weston | AI Lead at Purposeful Ventures |
| Dr Fiona Scott | Senior Lecturer in Digital Literacies at University of Sheffield |
| Rohan Slaughter | Senior Lecturer in Assistive Technology at University of Dundee |
| Caroline Wright | Director General at BESA |
| Emily Yeomans | Acting Co-CEO at the Education Endowment Foundation |