Meet the expert jury

Once again, we were able to assemble a very expert jury to appreciate the entries for the NOT Innovation Award 2025.

These professionals, each with their own expertise and passion for education, are ready to judge the most innovative ideas and products. Meet them below and find out who will have the challenging task of selecting the final winners for the jury prize of!

For each segment (KO, PO, VO and SO), the professional jury selects three nominees. The final winner is then chosen from these three nominees.

Dagmar Koole | KO

Dagmar Koole has 30 years of experience as an educational professional and works as an educational coach at the Waterland Childcare Foundation.

As a pedagogical coach, she would like to convey the passion of working with children to professional professionals and also look with them at the quality and improvement of child care.

As a jury member, she believes it is important that the entries are innovative, challenging and creative to make childcare/education even more fun and challenging. In which the child is central and the educational professional is inspired.

Cora Posthumus | PO

Cora Posthumus is Teacher of the Year 2023 Primary Education and has worked in Newcomer Education for more than 25 years. She finds it important to represent this education as an ambassador. This is necessary because the number of children who do not speak Dutch from home is increasing. For equality of opportunity, a good command of the Dutch language is a prerequisite for full participation in our society. Besides being a teacher, Cora is active as building and reading coordinator at the Taalcentrum Almere.

As a juror for the NOT Innovation Award, Cora believes it is important that an entry for primary education is special, innovative, sustainable and practical to use in the classroom and also adds something to the existing educational offerings.

Magda Pattiiha | SO

Magda Pattiiha's focal points as Teacher of the Year 2023 Special Education were learning to learn and social-emotional learning. She believes that you can motivate students to take ownership of what education has to offer by also teaching them skills on how to do that in their own way. It is also important as a person that students learn to discover how to find their place in this society and how to relate to others.

Innovation in education can play a big role in this: practical, substantive and challenging, looking for the connection in this complex world in which students live. How can students make that step, how can teachers make that step with them? Bring it on, innovators!

Lieke Brugman | MBO

Lieke Brugman trained as a Specialized Pedagogical Worker and enjoyed working in childcare and youth care immensely. She would like to pass on her passion in working with children to future professionals, which is why she now teaches the courses Education Assistant and (Specialized) Pedagogical Worker in the mbo.

The workload in education and childcare is increasing. As a jury member, what Lieke finds important about the product that is submitted is that it especially reduces the workload and offers benefits to both the professional and the child. In addition, she thinks it adds value if it is attractive and practical to use.

Andrew Niemeijer | VO and jury chairman

Andrew Niemeijer teaches high school English. In his classes, he emphasizes the value of literature daily, including during Fast Lane English, an enhanced language stream with culture as its anchor.

In 2009, Andrew was named Teacher of the Year. As board chair of the Teachers of the Year Foundation, he holds various education advisory positions in which he emphasizes the crucial role of the teacher in social, political and academic debate.

Andrew is also jury chair for the NOT Innovation Awards 2024, judging the entries for the secondary education sector in particular: "What's important to me is that the entries are truly innovative. Teachers are crying out for help with pressing issues around safety, citizenship and the teacher shortage. How great would it be if our Dutch entrepreneurship, in all its developing power, helped education with real innovations that help make our education a little better?