Anoara Mughal is a Year 6 teacher and an Assistant Headteacher and currently teaches in a primary school in East London leading English, Attendance and Punctuality, Remote Learning and Gift and Talented. In her previous role as an Assistant Headteacher, she has had experience in leading whole school English, curriculum, CPD, P4C and pupil premium. She serves on the Steering Group @HealthyToolkit and is a Network Leader @WomenEdLondon. She has also written online articles for the TES, Primary Leaders, The Chartered College of Teaching and Learnus UK. Anoara has spoken at a number of conferences including Primary Rocks and The Festival of Education where she presented and contributed to a panel on: What is a broad and balanced curriculum? Out together by The Chartered College of Teaching. She has also organised two #WomenEd London events inspiring women into leadership. She is passionate about closing the disadvantage gap and promoting social justice. In 2017, she founded @NewToSLTChat but has since passed this on.

Her article entitled: Metacognition: books, resources and teaching tips to help students know themselves as learners, was published online, by The Chartered College of Teaching, in January 2018. In 2020, she founded @IMetacognition and currently hosts monthly chats on metacognition. Anoara is the founder of the website Inspire Metacognition. She is a founding fellow at The Chartered College of Teaching and passed the NPQH in 2020. You can follow her @anoara_a.