About Dawn

Dawn has taught secondary RE for over twenty years. 

In this time she has been Head of RE in several schools. She has also been Assistant Principal, form tutor, school-based teacher training lead, AST, Head of House and Head of Humanities.

She has run a local RE network and was a Local Authority Lead Practitioner for RE.

Dawn has been a GCSE examiner and a member of Suffolk SACRE.

Dawn has completed the following qualifications/courses:

•  Chartered Teacher with the Chartered College of Teaching
• Chartered Leader with the Chartered College of Teaching
•  NPQSL (National Professional Qualification for Senior Leaders).
•  SLE (Specialist Leader in Education)
•  AST (Advanced Skills Teacher)
•  NCSL Leadership Pathways 

She is an associate member of AREIAC ( Association of RE Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants ).

Dawn has written and contributed to various publications. These include:

• Making Every RE lesson count with Louise Hutton (Crown House 2021) 
• Oxford Revise: AQA GCSE Religious Studies A: Christianity and Islam (2023)
• Oxford Revise: AQA GCSE Religious Studies A: Christianity and Buddhism (editor 2023)
• AQA GCSE Religious Studies A (9-1) Workbook: Themes through Christianity and Islam for Paper 2 OUP 2019 
• AQA GCSE Religious Studies A (9-1) Workbook: Themes through Christianity and Buddhism for Paper 2 (OUP with Steven Humphries 2019)
• Seneca Learning Online course – Assessment for Teachers - (Seneca Certified Assessor 2019) 
• ‘We need to talk about religious education’: Manifestos for the future of RE (2018)– Chapter 14 pages 219-232 ‘Does research matter in the religious education classroom?’
•  Closing the word Gap : Religious education handbook (OUP)

Dawn has a blog at https://missdcoxblog.wordpress.com/author/missdcox/

Dawn also writes blogs/articles for others. These include:

• Oxford University Press 
• REonline 
• Chartered College of Teaching
• Teachwire
• HWRK magazine
• Teach Secondary magazine
• REToday

Her blog has featured several times on the Teacher Tap app