She has an educational researcher background working at the National Institute for Public Education (in Hungary) for 25 years and leading regional and national level school development R&D projects to improve disadvantaged students’ learning process. Doing her research work she has always focused on two sides of school improvements: what to change and how to change. On the ‘what’ side there are five strongly interconnected components: physical environment and organisational aspect of instruction, the curriculum what includes applied methodology and, finally the assumptions about effective learning. On the ‘how’ side teachers’ learning and classroom processes are put in the centre and school improvement is organised around them: to ensure the complex environment to optimise capacity building inside and around the changing school.
She has been working at the Public Foundation for the Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities since 2008 as a leader of an extraordinary successful national project to prevent early school leaving in 15 vocational training schools all over Hungary. She has participated in several international projects and Executive Committee member of ‘European Association of Cities, Institutes and Second Chance Schools’ – E2C-Europe.