Meet the team

Joe Basketts

CEO

Joe believes strongly  in the transformative power of edtech when it comes to teaching and learning – and he ensures every school and leader Satori Education supports can tap into this resource.

Thanks to years of experience as a primary school teacher and education adviser, Joe has a strong appreciation for how edtech can bring learning to life for pupils. With the right kind of tech, students can learn about a topic by getting creative, rather than passively consuming information.

While there are many benefits to be gained, Joe understands every step that leaders will need to tread to optimise their school’s edtech. He helps schools to anticipate challenges and avoid pitfalls.

Ultimately, Joe’s approach is rooted in how he can best facilitate school leadership and staff to confidently take ownership of their edtech strategy.

Whether as a consultant or trainer/coach, Joe empowers educational professionals with the skills, knowledge and strategic insight to reach their edtech goals.

Rachel Tilden-Walker

Senior Consultant

Rachel is an experienced teacher, educational leader and edtech specialist with a passion for facilitating effective change management in schools.

Having led ambitious changes in her own school, Rachel has a strong appreciation for how SLTs and teachers are often tasked with adapting to new initiatives without adequate support to ensure change sticks.

Rachel works with schools to implement strategic, long-lasting change to their edtech. Drawing from a strengths-based coaching approach, Rachel facilitates growth in the people she works by empowering staff to learn and adapt in whatever way work works best for them.

By focusing on how edtech can help teachers in the classroom, Rachel guides schools in enabling staff to lead the way with adopting new edtech through colleague mentorship and teamwork.

For Rachel, effective change management is similar to good teaching; give people what they need and then try and get out of the way of the learning!

Sally Tippett

Senior Consultant

Having a strong affinity for ICT and edtech as a teacher, Sally brings a wealth of technical knowledge and leadership experience in how she supports schools to make the most of their edtech.

Sally is passionate about supporting teachers to feel genuinely confident in making use of the edtech in their classrooms.

She believes in providing educators with a robust edtech framework, enabling schools to support staff to understand new tech, use it in classrooms, and contribute to future edtech strategy.

Having written the Primary Computing Framework, Sally has a strong appreciation for how challenging edtech can be for educators. She also understands how frustrating it can be for teachers to adapt to new tech without their buy-in, and ensures schools support staff with the right CPD to avoid this issue.

Whether as consultant or coach, Sally uses her skills, experience and insight to help schools and tech leads transform the learning experience through edtech.

David is an internationally respected educationalist with a wealth of Ed Tech experience. He is a former Primary Headteacher and leader of an award-winning city-wide Ed Tech Team. He is now providing consultancy as part of the Satori team. Having worked across all phases of the school sector, he is able to bring his understanding of the key factors of successful Ed Tech implementation to support the needs of schools and school leaders, enabling them to utilise the latest developments in technology from the industry sector. David has contributed to the writing and development of a number of Ed Tech review frameworks, including the NAACE Ed Tech Review framework and the ADOPT framework for Online Learning. He was senior consultant as part of the DfE’s Ed Tech Demonstrator programme.

David Fairbairn-Day

Education Strategy Lead

Educational technology professional with 22 years’ experience in over 50 countries of technological implementation, business development and large-scale programme management.

His key areas of expertise are in –

• Strategic education leadership and development
• International business development and relationships
• National and Global programme development and implementation
• Organisational growth and development

Walking, multiple sports and travel, including representing his country as an age group player and coach. Set up and now runs a local group of 60 volunteers to support those locally needing support and help due to the Covid-19 situation.