Dr Kulvarn Atwal

Dr Kulvarn Atwal FCCT has spent his entire career teaching and leading in East London schools and is currently Head Teacher at Highlands Primary School and Uphall Primary School. Highlands was recently awarded the Mayor of London’s Schools for Success award for the fourth year in a row; one of only 12 primary or secondary schools in London to achieve that accolade.

Kulvarn specialises in teacher professional learning. His doctoral thesis highlighted the factors that impact upon teacher engagement in professional learning activities, with a particular focus on workplace learning theories and action research.

He has recently been awarded Fellowship Status at the Chartered College of Education. He has published his first book, ‘The Thinking School. Developing a Dynamic Learning Community’.