Leandro Paladino, M. Ed.

Glocalising the ELT Classroom 

Leandro Paladino is a teacher of English and literature from the University of La Plata, Argentina, and holds a master’s degree in bilingual education from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the general academic director of Colegio York, a multilingual school in the city of La Plata, Argentina, where he is based. 

Leandro Paladino teaches English grammar and Discourse Analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has 30 years' experience as a teacher educator. He has delivered numerous workshops and conference presentations nationally and internationally, and has worked for several major publishers, as a speaker and materials writer. He is also a frequent contributor to teachers’ associations in Argentina and is often asked to deliver training courses in schools and institutions to cater for their specific needs.  

Leandro is joint coordinator of IATEFL’s Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest Group, a SIG where he was previously joint publications editor. 

Leandro has three teenage children who teach him as much as he can ever teach them.  

Griselda Beacon

Once Upon a Classroom: Bringing Tales and Storytelling to Primary English Learners

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator specializing in literature, creativity, and art in English language education. She holds an MA in English and American Literature and German as a Foreign Language from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has worked in teacher education and primary curriculum development for over 25 years.

Her approach to English language education embraces pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion through the lens of intercultural education. She mainly uses active methodologies, visits schools for storytelling sessions, and brings literature to life with a creative twist. She has shared her expertise as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer across Latin America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia.

Griselda is the co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2018), an English coursebook series designed for Argentina, and co-editor of International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025). 

She has taught courses on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques, Contemporary Literature in English, and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at state-run teacher training colleges in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Currently, she lectures on American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and works as a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK and is a regular presenter at conferences.

Daniela Zallocco

Blended learning and Generative AI: Prepare our educational institutions for the next step

Daniela Zallocco holds a Master’s degree and a Specialization in Education Policy from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She is certified by Cambridge in teaching English as a second language. She serves as Education Specialist at the National Commission for UNESCO in Argentina, where she coordinates the UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet). She was nominated for the British Council ELTons Awards in the category of local innovation for her work on teacher training courses integrating new technologies. She also participated in the 2nd Capacity Building Workshop on Global Citizenship Education in Korea, organized by APCEIU. In addition, she provides consultancy and advisory services to educational institutions and specialized publishers on digital learning and global citizenship education.

Gabriel Rshaid

Gabriel Rshaid es co-fundador y Director de The Learnerspace (Buenos Aires), una consultora educativa que trabaja con escuelas en transformación y uso de tecnología/innovación.
Ha sido, según su perfil, Headmaster (director) de St. Andrew’s Scots School en Buenos Aires, Argentina, una institución bilingüe de larga trayectoria.
Autor de múltiples libros y artículos sobre futuro de la educación, pedagogía centrada en el estudiante, innovación escolar.
Ha dictado talleres y charlas internacionales, incluyendo sobre temas como inteligencia artificial aplicada a la educación, uso de tecnología en el aula y desarrollo de liderazgo educativo. Por ejemplo, él aparece como facilitador en un “Webinar – Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2023)” de ESSARP Argentina.
Tiene relación visible con Richmond ELT Argentina: en sus redes puede verse agradecimientos de Richmond a Gabriel Rshaid por su “mirada sobre el futuro de la educación”.