In a way, mme moe came from an Olympic experience. Paul Williams, mme moe's inventor, is an Olympian. He represented Australia in water polo and went on to coach others to do the same. The experience exposed Paul to coaching, learning and development at a performance level few of us have experienced.
Paul went on to build a career in education and as a coach and technology entrepreneur. Not surprisingly, his specialty has been to develop teachers and principals through proven coaching models - models Paul has implemented, not just studied.
As Paul's career developed, Web technologies continued to improve and online professional development technologies began to appear on the market. Paul and others noticed that most of these technologies were designed for top-down HR performance management, case management or managing approvals for attendance at PD events, not for reflective practice or the other habits of effective professionals. It appeared that the paper-based surveys and annual performance reviews of old were now being entered into Web interfaces and stored on databases. Not much had changed beyond automation. Alongside this, teachers were being sent to expensive 'one size fits all' PD sessions. For all the technology, most teachers are still evaluated once a year, surveys are compared, and training is often dispensed to the group, not tailored to the individual. Anyone in education knows about the issues of professional development, especially the Return on Investment issue.
In recent years, there as been a shift to Professional Learning (PL) and Professional Learning Networks (PLNs). Under this model, teachers are encouraged to take ownership of their learning, beginning with teachers developing the habit of reflective practice. Paul became excited by this shift as it aligned to long-established coaching models. Paul saw that a Web technology could be developed to support and drive professional reflection and the wider coaching model. That's where the idea for mme moe came from. The ascendancy of PL is reflected in the explosion of education conferences, workshops, Twitter #edchats and other social media forums. While PLN traffic on social media is enormous, it only figures in the week-to-week lives of a very small percentage of teachers and an even smaller percentage of principals, education directors and superintendents. mme moe was developed, in part, to support PL as a mainstream school activity.
From November 2013 through to January 2015, Paul joined forces with Mark Lamont to take the mme moe concept from a storyboard to working prototype, road tested with school systems in the US, Australia and UK. By October 2015, mme moe was incorporated as a company, the software fully operational with customers, companion training and courses, revenue and a global distribution network.
mme moe is receiving very favourable feedback and uptake, globally. By 2016, our customers included some of the largest school systems, universities and global development agencies in the world - and small medium-size customers. Read some of our customer case studies.
Paul went on to build a career in education and as a coach and technology entrepreneur. Not surprisingly, his specialty has been to develop teachers and principals through proven coaching models - models Paul has implemented, not just studied.
As Paul's career developed, Web technologies continued to improve and online professional development technologies began to appear on the market. Paul and others noticed that most of these technologies were designed for top-down HR performance management, case management or managing approvals for attendance at PD events, not for reflective practice or the other habits of effective professionals. It appeared that the paper-based surveys and annual performance reviews of old were now being entered into Web interfaces and stored on databases. Not much had changed beyond automation. Alongside this, teachers were being sent to expensive 'one size fits all' PD sessions. For all the technology, most teachers are still evaluated once a year, surveys are compared, and training is often dispensed to the group, not tailored to the individual. Anyone in education knows about the issues of professional development, especially the Return on Investment issue.
In recent years, there as been a shift to Professional Learning (PL) and Professional Learning Networks (PLNs). Under this model, teachers are encouraged to take ownership of their learning, beginning with teachers developing the habit of reflective practice. Paul became excited by this shift as it aligned to long-established coaching models. Paul saw that a Web technology could be developed to support and drive professional reflection and the wider coaching model. That's where the idea for mme moe came from. The ascendancy of PL is reflected in the explosion of education conferences, workshops, Twitter #edchats and other social media forums. While PLN traffic on social media is enormous, it only figures in the week-to-week lives of a very small percentage of teachers and an even smaller percentage of principals, education directors and superintendents. mme moe was developed, in part, to support PL as a mainstream school activity.
From November 2013 through to January 2015, Paul joined forces with Mark Lamont to take the mme moe concept from a storyboard to working prototype, road tested with school systems in the US, Australia and UK. By October 2015, mme moe was incorporated as a company, the software fully operational with customers, companion training and courses, revenue and a global distribution network.
mme moe is receiving very favourable feedback and uptake, globally. By 2016, our customers included some of the largest school systems, universities and global development agencies in the world - and small medium-size customers. Read some of our customer case studies.
The mme moe team
Paul Williams
Paul is Chief Learning Officer, mme moe inventor and co-founder at mme moe Pty Ltd. Paul has served as an olympian, teacher and principal, and as a district manager for the Western Australian Department of Education.
Paul entered the commercial world with a product he designed in 2001 called Kidmap. He has since worked with or for Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Mercator Software, VIPtone and Oracle, and as a high performance coach at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. This also includes significant time spent as a professional learning consultant to teachers in a range of contexts. Throughout all aspects of his career, Paul has constantly been interested in and learning about how people get better at what they do. The culmination of that expertise, experience and research is mme moe.
Paul still lectures in professional practice and learning technologies at Curtin University. He manages students on professional practice all over Australia. He is completing a PhD concerning “pre-service teachers’ perceptions of agency over their learning, comparing command/control unit based systems and self-organised learning environments”.
Paul’s current work with high performing athletes at Western Australia Institute of Sport (WAIS) concerns both the technical aspects of skill development and developing and promoting a champion mindset. Paul has researched the competencies of champion athletes, and this research, along with many years’ experience training principals and teachers, has flowed through to the ‘habits of effective people’ basis on which key aspects of mme moe are based. Follow Paul on Twitter @mmemoe or email Paul.
Paul is Chief Learning Officer, mme moe inventor and co-founder at mme moe Pty Ltd. Paul has served as an olympian, teacher and principal, and as a district manager for the Western Australian Department of Education.
Paul entered the commercial world with a product he designed in 2001 called Kidmap. He has since worked with or for Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Mercator Software, VIPtone and Oracle, and as a high performance coach at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. This also includes significant time spent as a professional learning consultant to teachers in a range of contexts. Throughout all aspects of his career, Paul has constantly been interested in and learning about how people get better at what they do. The culmination of that expertise, experience and research is mme moe.
Paul still lectures in professional practice and learning technologies at Curtin University. He manages students on professional practice all over Australia. He is completing a PhD concerning “pre-service teachers’ perceptions of agency over their learning, comparing command/control unit based systems and self-organised learning environments”.
Paul’s current work with high performing athletes at Western Australia Institute of Sport (WAIS) concerns both the technical aspects of skill development and developing and promoting a champion mindset. Paul has researched the competencies of champion athletes, and this research, along with many years’ experience training principals and teachers, has flowed through to the ‘habits of effective people’ basis on which key aspects of mme moe are based. Follow Paul on Twitter @mmemoe or email Paul.
Mark Lamont
Mark is Director and co-founder at mme moe Pty Ltd. Mark has worked with Paul Williams since November 2013 to turn mme moe into a business with a product, customers and revenue. Mark is both an international education business developer and a highly experienced enterprise education project sponsor. He founded World Mosaic in 2007 after taking myinternet Limited, an Australian education software company, to domestic and international markets, supporting millions of students and teachers. Mark shares Paul's passion for competency-based review, growth mindset and contemporary approaches to improve the effectiveness of teachers, principals and other professionals.
Earlier in his long education career, Mark evaluated the effectiveness of schools across Sydney Australia, his home town. Over the past decade, Mark has lived and worked in the US, UK, UAE, Egypt, Australia, NZ, Sweden and Canada, leading major projects that bridge invention, enterprise, Web technologies, contemporary pedagogy and commercial development, all in the education and technology niche.
Mark has considerable commercial and edtech project experience, having worked in executive, partner and advisor roles for both large corporations (Telstra Corporation (Aus), Follett Corporation (USA), Hitachi Data Systems and Encyclopaedia Britannica (EMEA) and small to medium size enterprises, including edtech start-ups. Mark has served as a strategic advisor and researcher on education technology initiatives for the New Zealand Ministry of Education, Australian federal and state governments and has regularly presented at UNESCO mobilie learning events. See Mark's LinkedIn profile or email Mark.
Mark is Director and co-founder at mme moe Pty Ltd. Mark has worked with Paul Williams since November 2013 to turn mme moe into a business with a product, customers and revenue. Mark is both an international education business developer and a highly experienced enterprise education project sponsor. He founded World Mosaic in 2007 after taking myinternet Limited, an Australian education software company, to domestic and international markets, supporting millions of students and teachers. Mark shares Paul's passion for competency-based review, growth mindset and contemporary approaches to improve the effectiveness of teachers, principals and other professionals.
Earlier in his long education career, Mark evaluated the effectiveness of schools across Sydney Australia, his home town. Over the past decade, Mark has lived and worked in the US, UK, UAE, Egypt, Australia, NZ, Sweden and Canada, leading major projects that bridge invention, enterprise, Web technologies, contemporary pedagogy and commercial development, all in the education and technology niche.
Mark has considerable commercial and edtech project experience, having worked in executive, partner and advisor roles for both large corporations (Telstra Corporation (Aus), Follett Corporation (USA), Hitachi Data Systems and Encyclopaedia Britannica (EMEA) and small to medium size enterprises, including edtech start-ups. Mark has served as a strategic advisor and researcher on education technology initiatives for the New Zealand Ministry of Education, Australian federal and state governments and has regularly presented at UNESCO mobilie learning events. See Mark's LinkedIn profile or email Mark.
UK Consultants
mme moe has a partnership with 2° Consulting Llc to support UK schools and school systems in their adoption and development through mme moe.
Nadene Mackay
Nadene is an executive consultant based in Cardiff Wales. She has over 15 years’ experience teaching at secondary level within Wales and more recently as an assistant headteacher responsible for teaching, learning and training across two federated high schools in South Wales. Within this role, she led Professional Development for teachers and successfully fostered a self-reflective and collaborative ethos amongst staff, instilling the view that they can become agents of change in their own classrooms drawing on their own resources and learning the most effective skills of one another.
Nadene now holds a role at the University of Wales Trinity St David as Lecturer in Professional Studies supporting the delivery of the Additional Graduate Teacher Training Programme with a focus on helping students reflect meaningfully on their own practice to secure further improvement. Together, Nadene’s roles reflect her commitment to providing high quality provision for both teachers and students.Nadene is a key member of the 2° Consulting team.
Nadene is an executive consultant based in Cardiff Wales. She has over 15 years’ experience teaching at secondary level within Wales and more recently as an assistant headteacher responsible for teaching, learning and training across two federated high schools in South Wales. Within this role, she led Professional Development for teachers and successfully fostered a self-reflective and collaborative ethos amongst staff, instilling the view that they can become agents of change in their own classrooms drawing on their own resources and learning the most effective skills of one another.
Nadene now holds a role at the University of Wales Trinity St David as Lecturer in Professional Studies supporting the delivery of the Additional Graduate Teacher Training Programme with a focus on helping students reflect meaningfully on their own practice to secure further improvement. Together, Nadene’s roles reflect her commitment to providing high quality provision for both teachers and students.Nadene is a key member of the 2° Consulting team.
Martin Matthews
Martin is a UK Director at 2° Consulting Llc . Based in Bristol England, he is a former executive headteacher in the secondary state sector in both England and most recently in Wales. He has 34 years’ experience of teaching, coaching and leadership at all levels. Martin’s strengths lie in his ability to draw out the potential and talent amongst the teams he leads and his drive is firmly wrapped up in the moral imperative to close the gap in attainment between disadvantaged children and other children nationally.
Martin was successful in creating and embedding a Joint Practice Development Model in his school as a method by which to empower and strengthen the skill-set of each teacher. This contributed to him earning recognition for leading one of the most improved schools in Wales.
Martin provides consultancy support to the education sector, consulting closely with developers to bring online educational products and services to market. Since retiring from headship, Martin is enjoying using his experience to support the journey moving forward in creating a self-improving educational system.
Martin is a UK Director at 2° Consulting Llc . Based in Bristol England, he is a former executive headteacher in the secondary state sector in both England and most recently in Wales. He has 34 years’ experience of teaching, coaching and leadership at all levels. Martin’s strengths lie in his ability to draw out the potential and talent amongst the teams he leads and his drive is firmly wrapped up in the moral imperative to close the gap in attainment between disadvantaged children and other children nationally.
Martin was successful in creating and embedding a Joint Practice Development Model in his school as a method by which to empower and strengthen the skill-set of each teacher. This contributed to him earning recognition for leading one of the most improved schools in Wales.
Martin provides consultancy support to the education sector, consulting closely with developers to bring online educational products and services to market. Since retiring from headship, Martin is enjoying using his experience to support the journey moving forward in creating a self-improving educational system.