Andrea Mallen is the director of Dance in Education Services and and has over 20 years' teaching experience. Andrea is the creator of the Adept Portal. She has delivered INSET on behalf of several education authorities for a number of years (including TOPS 1 and 2, CPD Learning in and through Dance, and training based on Dance In Education Services resources). Andrea was recently commissioned by the Youth Sport Trust to create and implement a national CPD training programme for the all SSPs and ASTs.

Andrea falls within the advanced tutor category featured in the Standard Framework for local Tutors.

Andrea trained at the Laban Centre (London) graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Dance Theatre and a Performance Diploma. She obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Secondary Education (Drama/English) from Bretton Hall, University of Leeds and holds an MA in Professional Education from Leeds Metropolitan University. She also holds Advanced Diplomas in Mentoring and Raising Achievement in Schools and is a qualified Internal Assessor and External Moderator.

Andrea is a Moderator for the AQA GCSE Dance Board and a moderator for the Open College Network. She is a TOPs Dance Trainer (including TOPs 2) and a qualified CPD tutor, as well as being one of only a handful of education professionals in Britain who teaches and trains pupils and teachers from Nursery/Foundation Stage to Masters Degree Level. Andrea has taught in some of the core educational establishments in the United Kingdom.

In 1997 she co-founded Dance In Education Services, a company formed to conceptualise, write, publish and distribute educational Dance resources to the compulsory and non-compulsory education sectors. In 1998 she was commissioned by several education authorities to write dance policies and to create accessible training materials. She has successfully assisted schools and colleges to formulate bids and applications for establishments aspiring toward Sports/Arts College status.

This level of success led to the formation of a publishing company which produces an array of dance resources including the international best seller 'Dance G.C.S.Easy', a set text for GCSE Dance. Andrea has written numerous publications for an array of professional Dance companies, including Phoenix Dance and Northern Ballet Theatre.

Since its inception Dance In Education Services has become a leader in the field of dance publications and teacher training. Best-selling Dance in Education resources include:
Get Fizzical, Dance In Steps, Activ8: The Big Dance Number, Dance GCSEasy

Andrea was presented to HRH Elizabeth II for her choreographic contribution to the Bradford Centenary Celebrations in which she directed and choreographed a large-scale, outdoor, multi-cultural stadium event involving hundreds of children.