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We bring educators together through purposeful networking events and forums.
Creative
Educators
Network.
Every young person in the UK should have access to life-changing creative education.
Our vision
Advocating for creative education
Our mission / 2026
The Creative Educators Network is the UK’s professional community for teachers and school leaders across the creative arts.
We are a collective voice for creative educators, empowering our members through high-quality training, curriculum resources and access to the creative industries.
A new network
Built on success.
Growing fast.
The Creative Educators Network is a new network. We are building on the success of the Film & TV Educators Network to expand into Games and Music.
Each subject network keeps its own community and programme, while the Creative Educators Network provides the shared voice, training and industry access behind them.
The umbrella network
What we do
For educators.
For change.
Practical support and a powerful shared voice for the people shaping creative learning.
Develop
We strengthen practice through tailored professional development and shared expertise.
Equip
We provide ambitious curriculum thinking, practical resources and routes into industry.
Advocate
We make the case for policy change and curriculum reform that serves creative education.
What's on
Check out our latest events
Upcoming Coming soon
4 November 2026
Sustainability & Accessibility in the Screen Industries
A fully-funded CPD day on industry best practice in sustainable production and accessibility, and how to apply them to student productions.
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Find your community
Subject Networks
Established
Events, resources and a national community for film, television and screen educators.
Enter FTVEN
New
A new professional community for teachers and leaders across games education.
Explore GEN
Launching soon
A new professional community for teachers and leaders across sound and music education.
Network launching soon
Our team
Meet the people
behind the network.
Jamie Waller
Director — Creative Educators Network
Jamie is the Director of the Creative Educators Network and founded the Film & TV Educators Network. Prior to this, he was Assistant Principal for Teaching & Learning at the London Screen Academy, a pioneering institution aimed at diversifying the screen industries. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Ambition Institute and a Teach First Ambassador.
Alice Guilluy
Programme Lead — Creative Educators Network
Alice is the first point of contact for the Creative Educators Network and looks after its everyday activity. She has a background in Higher Education, having previously led the MA programmes at MetFilm School London and the BA at the London Film Academy. She is obsessed with romantic comedy: her PhD thesis, Guilty Pleasures: European Audiences and Hollywood Romantic Comedy, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2021.
Curtis Le Blanc
Network Lead — Games Educators Network
Curtis is the Network Lead for GEN and Director of Games at East London Arts and Music. He established and leads its UAL Level 3 Games Design course for 16–18-year-olds in East London, drawing on extensive experience teaching games development, VFX and motion graphics.
Who we work with
Better
together.
We work alongside organisations who share our belief in the power of creative education.
