Valentina Devid is an experienced educator, former school leader, and international consultant specialising in formative action and instructional coaching. She holds a master’s degree in Learning and Innovation and began her career as a secondary school teacher of history and religious education. Over time, her work expanded across both secondary and higher education, including roles as an assessment expert within teacher education programmes.

Valentina’s expertise centres on formative action: what teachers and students do with evidence of learning to improve teaching and learning in real time. This focus formed the core of her master’s research and has since become the foundation of her professional practice. Together with René Kneyber and Dominique Sluijsmans, she co-authored the influential book Formative Action: From Instrument to Design and co-founded the Formative Action School, supporting schools in sustainably embedding formative practices into everyday classroom routines.

A key strand of Valentina’s work is instructional coaching. She works with teachers, coaches, and leadership teams to translate formative intentions into concrete classroom actions, using short, focused coaching cycles that strengthen pedagogical decision-making and shared notions of quality.

Valentina is a sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator of professional learning, working with schools, universities, and educational networks both nationally and internationally. Her work is grounded in learning science, curriculum design, and sustainable change, always with the aim of empowering educators to design coherent, student-centred learning environments that actually work in practice.