Secondary school, special school and PRU improvement

Louise has over 15 years’ experience working in a variety of school contexts in Kent and Medway. She has experience in subject and senior leadership, with a specialism in curriculum and assessment design.

She has a Masters in Leadership in Education which focused on departmental leadership. As a senior leader, Louise has held key stage responsibilities and redesigned how schools monitor academic progress through carefully aligned curriculum and assessment models. Through her career, Louise has supported a range of curriculum areas to secure excellent outcomes beyond her specialism of English. This success enabled Louise to focus her attention more broadly within a MAT and develop a Trust-wide Key Stage 3 assessment model focused on responding to ‘life without levels’.

Beyond this Louise has delivered and assessed a Masters qualification and is a governor of a local primary school. These further commitments have enabled her to successfully support schools and individuals as they drive to make continued improvement. Working with staff across a range of schools of all phases, Louise has delivered bespoke CPD focused on curriculum, assessment and pedagogy and has worked with staff at all levels to implement changes to make maximum impact.

Louise believes that all students have an entitlement to a high-quality curriculum, regardless of background or circumstance. She is passionate about supporting all subject areas to align their curriculum, pedagogy and assessment approaches to enable all pupils to meet ambitious end points.

Her main role within the Education People includes supporting leaders to audit their provision, enhancing teachers’ confidence in their subject and pedagogical content knowledge and providing support to monitor and quality assure implementation and impact.

Andrew has worked in a variety of school contexts. Starting his career in Walsall (West Midlands) he taught maths and as part of the teaching and learning team worked as a coach coaching staff in a special measures school.

Andrew quickly moved into department leadership when he moved to Bristol and made significant changes to the KS3 maths curriculum and assessment ensuring it reflected the changes in the national curriculum at KS2 and the changes in assessment. The Maths department were recognised for their success and were shortlisted for Maths Department of the Year in the TES awards. While doing this Andrew completed a Masters in Leadership in Education from the University of Bristol. This was with a particular focus on assessment and specifically formative assessment.

Andrew embraced more challenge and moved to be Head of Maths in another area in Bristol. There, he led through reform at KS4 and implemented many effective changes which resulted in praise in the 2019 Ofsted for helping the school achieve a Good rating.

More recently, he has been a Lead Practitioner supporting Teaching and Learning in a Grammar School in Canterbury and teaching the Further Maths A-level as well as developing stretch and challenge resources for high attainers.

Andrew believes that without trying new things we don't improve. It is through trying and experimenting with teaching and learning and pushing our comfort zones that we develop the habitats that make us effective teachers.

as a subject lead, pastoral lead, school leader, SENDCO and more recently as the senior leader for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Specialist Resource Provision (SRP).

Ruth has led the development of a high-quality inclusive model in a school with a large SRP that enables all pupils supported by the SRP and SEND to access their education. She has been responsible for leading strategic school improvement, training and developing inclusive practice.

Alongside her senior leadership role, she has supported the Kent Inclusion Leadership Programme as an Inclusion Leader of Education which has provided her the opportunity to work with a number of primary and secondary schools across Kent.

Over recent years, Ruth has delivered training sessions to trainee teachers on the Culture of an Inclusive Classroom and Practical toolkits to support pupils with SEND.

Ruth has a Master of Art specialising in SEND. Her research focussed on inclusion ensuring that pupils with SEND supported by a SRP are afforded an environment and education that they can successfully access and make progress academically, socially and emotionally.

Ruth believes that every school can provide high-quality inclusive education for all pupils irrespective of whether they have SEND or not enabling every pupil to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.

Her main role within The Education People is SEND specialism providing support and advice for school leaders, SENDCOs, teachers and stakeholders to review and develop their SEND policy, provision and inclusive practice.