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Biography:

• Led on staff development including developing a culture of coaching to ensure smooth adoption of new policies and procedures and raising the proportion of good or better teaching successfully across the school
• Ensuring good financial procedures adopted by all, supporting a balanced budget, including strategic improvement of this; increasing the schools carry forward to maintain long-term financial security
• Created new revenue streams through bid funding and generated income to increase school budget and prevent school going into a deficit budget
• Worked directly with key stakeholders to improve outcomes for pupils including regular reporting on their progress
• Gathered and analysed cultural, educational, social and demographic data about the community to guide school development
• Organised educational forums and meet-ups to develop schools position in the wider local community, including sitting as the school representative for the Hertfordshire Children's Safeguarding Partnership board and representing Stevenage Headteachers at Primary Heads Forum for the Local Authority
• Reviewed schools vision and values included a strategic approach to behaviour successfully reducing exclusions by 89%
• Board member for Designating Specialist Provision Locally – including support for schools and managing a wider school budget for specialist support and outreach work across Hertfordshire for disadvantaged pupils

L7 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring via Chartered Management Institute.

- person centred
- facilitating leaders to find their own solutions based on coaching questions
- supportive
- providing practical advice and strategies to problem solve
- prioritisation strategies
- internal growth including succession planning
- focus on own well being and work life balance to avoid burn out and keep leaders in the profession