Professional Activity in 2023 - 2024
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MAT - Director of School Improvement (secondary and primary) QA visits helping get positive Ofsted outcomes
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Other MATs QA visits helping get positive Ofsted outcomes
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Large university initial teacher training programmes, coaching and support helping get a very positive Ofsted outcome
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Advice on curriculum to a Steiner Academy contributing to a very positive Ofsted outcome.
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Participation in whole school reviews.
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Conducting school safeguarding reviews.
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Presentations to conferences of trainee teachers of economics and business.
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Presentation at University of Essex on ‘Becoming an Economics Teacher’.
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Expert at ‘The Expert Surgery: Understanding the Process of your Ofsted Inspection’ for Westminster Insight.
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Presentation on Careers Education to West Berkshire LEP at University of Reading.
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Contributed written and oral evidence to Lord Jim Knight’s ‘Beyond Ofsted’ report.
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Contributed written and oral evidence to the House of Commons Education Select Committee investigation into Ofsted.
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Presentation to Research Society Conference, Salzburg: ‘The English Approach to School Inspection’.
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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?’
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Participation in HMI panel discussion: Ofsted - Where are we and where are we heading? at ‘Rethinking Education ‘ Conference 2023.
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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’.
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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’.
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Chair the Education Conferences UK: ‘Preparing for School Inspection Conference 2023.’
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​Presentation to 'Diverse Educators on 'Financial Education' for Personal Development
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Editor of 'Teaching Business & Economics' from September 2024.