Crista Hazell

Crista Hazell has been teaching in a range of secondary schools for 20 years and has been in Leadership for 19.

Crista Hazell has worked across the UK and internationally in Slovenia, Cyprus, Kuwait, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Ghana with students, teachers and school leaders developing teaching, learning, relationships and behaviour and leadership.

She is an SLE for MFL, a pedagogy and pastoral champion known for seeking out new and innovative teaching and learning strategies which engage teachers, school leaders and learners in their own learning journeys to help them become confident, inquisitive, happy and successful lifelong learners who can successfully navigate their way through challenges in school, education and beyond. Crista seeks to help teachers, school leaders and learners unlock their potential by engaging them in research, policy and practice.

She seeks to save time for teachers helping them to create engaging, relevant and memorable deep learning experiences which result in great teaching and purposeful and memorable learning.

Crista Hazell has had work published in several educational books;

• There Is Another Way and The Working Class for Independent Thinking
• A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School (co-written with Dr Judith Rifeser) for Routledge (2024)
• It’s Good to Talk for the Association of Language Learning (2024)
• Her first book; Independent Thinking on MFL; How to make Modern Foreign Language Teaching exciting, inclusive and relevant (2020) was a finalist for the Education Resource Awards is available now as an ebook and physical book.

And in magazines; Teachwire and Languages Today.

She is also an Independent Thinking Associate, Veema Education Teaching and Learning Consultant and webinar host for Linguascope, Development Manager for the Association for Language Learning, Mental Health First Aider, InterLFEE teacher trainer working across Europe with a range of teachers developing communication, pedagogy and oracy whilst having fun and smiles along the way! She is a regular speaker at the Empowering Young People to Change the World conference held annually and is the proud Mother Tongue Other Tongue project coordinator for the Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages.

She has also provided workshops and training for supporting schools to manage grief, loss and the bereavement process as well as working alongside school leaders to ensure leadership with humanity through grief.