Professional Activity in 2023 - 2025

MAT - Director of School Improvement (secondary and primary) QA visits helping get positive Ofsted outcomes

Other MATs QA visits helping get positive Ofsted outcomes

Large university initial teacher training programmes, coaching and support helping get a very positive Ofsted outcome

Advice on curriculum to a Steiner Academy contributing to a very positive Ofsted outcome.

Leading whole school reviews.

Conducting school safeguarding reviews.

Presentations to conferences of trainee teachers of economics and business.

Presentation at University of Essex on ‘Becoming an Economics Teacher’.

Expert at  ‘The Expert Surgery: Understanding the Process of your Ofsted Inspection’ for Westminster Insight.

Presentation on Careers Education to West Berkshire LEP at University of Reading.

Contributed written and oral evidence to Lord Jim Knight’s ‘Beyond Ofsted’ report.

Contributed written and oral evidence to  the House of Commons Education Select Committee investigation into Ofsted.

Presentation to Research Society Conference, Salzburg: ‘The English Approach to School Inspection’.

Presentation to SIATE (social inclusion of adults through entrepreneurship) at the 'Institute for Business Teaching' at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany: ‘Can entrepreneurship education and work-related learning actually re-enforce disadvantage?’

Participation in HMI panel discussion: Ofsted - Where are we and where are we heading? at ‘Rethinking Education ‘ Conference 2023.

Presentation at AEEE (Association for European Economics Education) Conference, Leeuwarden, Netherlands:  ‘Inspection of teacher training in a case study of how government can enforce an ideological’.

Presentation at AEEE (Association for European Economics Education) Conference, Leeuwarden, Netherlands: ‘Deja vue all over again- a brief history of attempts in England to deliver financial education’.

Chair the Education Conferences UK: ‘Preparing for School Inspection Conference 2023.’

​Presentation to 'Diverse Educators on 'Financial Education' for Personal Development

Editor of 'Teaching Business & Economics' from September 2024.

Theme manager for Teacher Training pathway for the AEEE (Association for European Economics Education) Conference, Milan, Italy

Presentation at AEEE (Association for European Economics Education) Conference, Milan, Italy: 'The Evolution of the journal: 'Teaching Business & Economics' and how it could be a useful resource'

Presentation at AEEE (Association for European Economics Education) Conference, Milan, Italy: 'Can enterprise education and work-related learning actually re-enforce disadvantage?'

Presentation at AEEE (Association for European Economics Education) Conference, Milan, Italy: Why does a certain educational ideology reject ‘employability skills’?

Training School Governors on using data