Senior Professional Development Lead/ School Improvement Director / Director of Area Learning Partnership

As School Improvement Director for a Multi-Academy Trust and Director of a large Area Learning Partnership, I supported several schools successfully through Ofsted inspections successfully, established a wide range of school improvement services. As Director of Research & Development for a large Multi-Academy Trust, I led two large DfE-funded school improvement programmes. As a Local Area Partnership Science Consultant, I developed subject networks for science leaders, teachers and technicians, which led to sustained school-to-school support after the completion of the work of the partnership. As a Triple Science Adviser, I provided advisory support on behalf of the Triple Science Support Programme to over 35 schools, including coaching and mentoring of leaders and training of teachers. Action plans were followed with each school and targeted support provided. As a middle leader in three 11-18 schools, I introduced Applied Science A-level in one school, and oversaw increased GCSE results in others. I introduced Triple Science GCSE into three schools and led a successful application for Science Specialist College status. I introduced science club for KS3 pupils, which proved popular with 20+ pupils attending weekly and helped pupils at the school achieve the first ever (old NC) level 8 grades achieved in science at KS3 due to accelerated learning programme.