Who We Are
Before anything else, hello and thank you for visiting our site. We appreciate your time!
It’s a work in progress and being constantly tweaked so you may not see the same setup twice. We aim to improve, and any feedback would be welcome.
Elition is a site written and run by English teachers who have created a lot of work for themselves. It began, as these things often do, over a series of lunchtime conversations around teaching and learning. What was getting us excited that week, what had we read or researched that we were keen to trial, how our students responded to particular resources, and so on.
The topic of values kept coming up (it often does). Bridging the academic and pastoral. How a school’s values can be best presented in an English curriculum or, even, which values to focus on in a way that is meaningful, progressive and ultimately about the 'English Experience' for staff and students. The question of preparing students, not just for successful academic outcomes but to be empathetic and curious.
We enjoy curriculum design and coherent resources. Our backgrounds and experiences in middle and senior leadership means that we have (one would hope!) an idea of what these would look like.
The Team
Suzy Dodd
Suzy started her career over a decade ago in a central Leeds academy. After five years in the UK working across different areas of responsibility in two schools, she moved to Shanghai and then Malaysia as Head of English. Suzy also leads on EAL provision at her current school, a friendly and inclusive campus just outside Kuala Lumpur. She has completed her NPQSL and a short stint as Associate Head of Teaching and Learning over the last two years, and loves learning more about leadership.
Outside school, Suzy has been a CIE examiner for several years and has written for lifestyle sites and companies across Asia.
James Jones
James has taught in a number of award-winning schools in England, China and now, Malaysia. As a Head of English and examiner for the IB and CIE, he is chiefly interested in the transformative power of a progressive and future-proof English curriculum.
When not designing, writing, collaborating or getting fired up by research articles, he can be found distracted by nature, blending things to make pasta sauces and messing with guitars and keyboards.