Specialist Leaders in Education

Clare Hill

SLE Specialism: Secondary Mathematics

School and Role: Director of Maths at Twynham School, Christchurch. She has worked in secondary education since 1998 as a Subject Leader in schools judged as outstanding, in both London and Dorset.
 
Areas of expertise:

• Subject Leadership
• Improving progress at Key Stage 5
• Data management and progress from KS2 to KS4 - particularly with C/D borderline students
• Use of Lesson Study as an integral part of departmental CPD
• Developing teaching for conceptual understanding in mathematics.

Recent Examples of work with other schools:

• Supporting new faculty leaders in creating a successful department
• Developing understanding of multiplicative reasoning with primary school colleagues
• Leading a Lesson Study project with primary school colleagues
• Developing use of concrete materials (Numicon and Cuisenaire) in Key Stages 2 and 3
• Supporting first teaching of A Level Mathematics in a new Sixth Form

David Ennion

SLE Specialism: Closing the Gap

School and Role: Head of Pupil Premium and Intervention at Twynham School, and teacher of Business and Economics.

Areas of expertise:

• Reviewing whole school approaches to closing the gap for disadvantaged students
• Using data effectively to understand Pupil Premium performance
• Planning intervention strategies aimed at closing the gap and monitoring their impact.
• Tracking and improving progress and attainment for disadvantaged students at KS4
• Planning and delivering CPD for teachers and teaching assistants about disadvantaged students.
• Reporting on closing the gap to parents and governors.
• Raising the profile of disadvantaged students within a school.

Recent examples of work with other schools:

• Conducted a joint Pupil Premium Review of a Middle School deemed 'requiring improvement' by OFSTED to look at how effective their Pupil Premium strategy is and what improvements could still be made.
• Tracking Pupil Premium expenditure and analysing the impact based on GCSE performance.
• Working alongside Senior Leadership to track the progress of disadvantaged students and then planning interventions to close the gap in attainment.

Diana James

SLE Specialism: Literacy, Special Educational Needs and Assessment

School and Role: Twynham School literacy co-ordinator, specialist literacy teacher, assessor, SSAT Lead Practitioner

Areas of Expertise:

• Raising attainment and standards in literacy across the curriculum, including introduction of literacy conventions
• Whole school assessment procedures and targeted intervention
• Implementation of Reading Plus programme, key word Spelling Bee challenge and Word of the Week competitions
• Training of staff to support development of literacy
• Collaboration with English subject teachers to specifically target literacy
• Identification of SEN students
• Creation of schemes of work and resources to support SEN students
• Training of staff to support SEN students
• Progress tracking with targeted intervention
• Creation of designated literacy specialists to work with individual year groups at KS3
• Identification and intervention of support for students with weak working memory

Recent examples of work with other schools:

• Training and support of literacy teacher at federation school
• Sharing of resources with federation school
• Support of staff undertaking assessment qualifications
• Inset training for local schools
• Collaboration with local PhD student to trial Lumosity to boost working memory
• Regular visits from local schools to observe teaching and to discuss intervention

Kate Ball

• Planning and delivering CPD
• Evaluation of teaching and learning
• Lesson Study
• Leading Teaching and Learning dialogue group
• Effective marking and feedback
• Effective questioning
• Positive climate for learning
• Effective differentiation
• Team teaching / planning
• Coaching and mentoring teachers ( 1:1 support)
• Lesson observations
• Supporting trainee teachers

• Collaborative work with senior/middle leadership to plan CPD opportunities at partner school.
• Supported leadership in raising attainment at KS5 Biology.
• Supported mentoring/coaching of trainee teachers in 11 different training schools.
• Planning and supporting training program for newly appointed SLEs
• Planning and supporting training program for NQTs

Laura Lombard

SLE Specialism:Primary Mathematics

School and Role: Deputy Headteacher at St Andrew’s CEVA Primary School

Areas of Expertise:

• Developing whole school approaches for the teaching and learning of maths
• Implementing policies in line with National Curriculum expectations
• Coaching staff on the planning and assessment of primary maths
• Tracking and improving progress and attainment in maths at KS1 and KS2
• Planning and delivering CPD for teachers and teaching assistants
• Monitoring and evaluating teaching and learning
• Managing change
• Implementing and reviewing effective feedback
• Supporting and developing skills of effective differentiation and maximising progress, both within individual lessons and across units of work
• Coaching and mentoring teachers (1:1 support)

Recent examples of work with other schools:

• Working alongside senior/middle leadership to review data and implement improvements
• Working alongside middle leadership to monitor and evaluate practice within their own setting
• Mentoring a middle leader to develop their professional skills using a personalised work plan
• Training leaders on planning and assessment for the new National Curriculum expectations

Joanna Shale

SLE Specialism: KS1 English

Role: Assistant Headteacher, English Subject Leader, Year Two Class Teacher.

Areas of Expertise:

• Teaching across key stage to ensure achievement is high in the core subjects
• Use of Talk for Writing to improve writing outcomes for children
• Evaluating school processes and approaches to identify strengths and areas to develop to improve outcomes for children
• Developing effective, creative and consistent whole school strategies to deliver the National Curriculum and all staff have clarity of purpose
• Developing effective assessment processes to ensure accuracy and consistency against National Curriculum expectations including moderation practices so clarity in what good progress looks like is achieved
• Identifying and developing opportunities for teachers and teaching assistants to undertake appropriate areas of responsibility to drive improvements in practice and provision.
• Coaching and/or mentoring individual members of staff to build confidence and expertise to perform roles effectively leading to professional growth
• Working with subject leaders to develop an Action Plan for literacy, design effective monitoring processes/procedures and develop role to help raise standards
• Developing short and medium term plans that ensure curriculum coverage and facilitate delivery of lessons and units of work to children at all levels supporting them to make good progress
• Facilitating opportunities to share examples of best practice leading to improvements in practice
• Developing systems based on lesson study, coaching & collaborative enquiry as a tool for continuous CPD

Recent examples of work with other schools:

• Training leaders and teachers on KS1 assessment to ensure clarity of purpose and consistency
• Leading cluster moderation activities to gain consistency in judgements at a local level
• Leading developments in assessment within our cluster of schools to ensure effective, efficient and consistent practice
• Moderation for the Local Authority
• Inviting teachers and leaders from other schools to observe and discuss new approaches to teaching and learning
• Working with ITT provider to develop talk for learning programme
• Collaborating on a cross key stage research project to develop the teaching of fractions

Georgina Bidde

SLE Specialism: Primary English

School and Role: English Leader at Christchurch Junior and previously in a Hampshire junior school. Teaching primary for over 10 years; working in Year 6 for the last 6 years.

Areas of expertise:

• Subject Leadership
•  Action planning
• Whole class reading
• Engagement and enjoyment with English – developing teachers’ planning.
• Effective marking and feedback
• Coaching and mentoring teachers

Recent examples of work with other schools:

New to the SLE role 2017

• Collaborative work with Year 6 colleagues across Christchurch schools.  
• Collaborative teaching and planning.
• Supported modelled writing with colleagues in school.
• Delivering training to English leaders at Dorset LA subject leaders’ forum

Emily Spray

SLE Specialism: Secondary English and Drama

School and Role: Head of English at The Grange School.

Areas of Expertise:

• Subject Leadership
• Curriculum design, planning and assessment
• Progress tracking with targeted intervention at Key Stage 3 and 4
• Marking and feedback procedures to complement life after levels
• Coaching and mentoring teachers

Recent examples of work with other schools:

• Creation of schemes of work and resources to support reading interventions at KS3/4
• Delivering training to staff on questioning and effective marking and feedback
• Working alongside Senior Leadership to track the progress of key groups of students and planning interventions to close the gap in attainment.
• Working alongside other middle leaders to develop a skills based curriculum model to support middle ability progress
• Coaching other staff to develop their professional skills

Karen Barker

SLE Specialism: Religious Education

School and Role: Head of RE at Twynham School, Christchurch. She has worked in secondary education since 2001 and has been actively involved in Dorset SACRE and NASACRE since 2008.
 
Areas of expertise:

• Subject Leadership
• Improving progress across the Key Stages
• Planning and delivering CPD
• Evaluation of teaching and learning
• Effective marking and feedback
• SMSC and British Values
• Effective differentiation
• Team teaching / planning

Recent Examples of work with other schools:

• Supporting new faculty leaders in creating a successful department
• Review of departmental schemes of work and collaborative work to develop focused learning opportunities
• Supporting the review and development of the locally applied Dorset SACRE syllabus
• Developing understanding of the Dorset SACRE syllabus and its implementation at all Key Stages
• Provision of training for SCITT students on SMSC and British Values
• Supporting first teaching of A Level Religious Studies
• Collaborative development for the first teaching of GCSE Religious Studies
• Support for local schools with A Level and GCSE through the Dorset RE Exchange (Hub) through network meetings as well as the provision of a Key Stage 4 conference on Islam.

Becky Walters

SLE Specialism: Secondary Mathematics

School and Role: Lead Teacher of Maths at Twynham School, Christchurch. Accredited as a Maths Advanced Skills Teacher in 2011, she has worked in schools in Cambridgeshire, Surrey and now Dorset.

Areas of Expertise:

• Collecting data from numerous sources to better allow colleagues to reflect upon student learning
• Conducting research projects across numerous schools and in collaboration with universities to help accelerate teacher learning
• Planning and delivering professional development programs to teachers and teaching assistants
• Lesson Study, coaching and the use of video observations to enhance post-lesson professional dialogue
• Use of student voice to explore in depth the learning experiences in the classroom

Recent examples of work with other schools:

• Leading TAG-focused interventions with Numeracy Co-ordinators at neighbouring primary schools
• Supporting Heads of Maths with staff development and training, focusing on teachers’ development preferences and students’ experiences in the classroom
• Managing multiple action research projects across a Maths Faculty so that teachers feel more confident that their decisions are evidence-based
• Most recently, becoming a trainer to create scalable and sustainable improvements at Key Stage 2 across 16 Dorset primary schools as part of a DfE-funded 5 term project

Daniel Kelly

SLE Specialism: Secondary MFL

Megan Walter

SLE Specialism: Secondary Science