Teaching Schools Summit 2017 - Speakers

Andrew Warren

Andrew is the Director of the Britannia Teaching School Alliance (BTSA), which works with over 100 schools to support schools and find the next generation of outstanding teachers and leaders. At a national level, Andrew is the Chair of the Teaching Schools Council, an organisation which plays a key role in helping to shape national policy, working with senior civil servants and teaching schools across the country to ensure every child, in every part of the country, has access to a good school.

David Weston

David Weston is the founder and Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust, the national charity for effective professional development. He is the Chair of the Department for Education’s Teachers’ Professional Development Expert Group and helped to set-up the new Chartered College of Teaching. David is a secondary school governor and taught maths and physics for nine years in two schools London and the South East. David speaks and writes frequently for education sector and national media and has had a number of radio and TV appearances on the subject of teaching, teacher development and LGBT issues.

Vivienne Porritt

Vivienne is Director of School Partnerships at University College London, Institute of Education. She specialises in the strategic leadership of professional learning and approaches to impact evaluation.  Formerly Director for School Partnerships and Executive Director of The London Centre for Leadership and Learning, Vivienne developed innovative partnerships between the IOE and schools. Vivienne is a Chair of Governors in a secondary school in Camden and a National Leader of @WomenEd.

Professor Toby Greany

Toby is Professor of Leadership and Innovation and Director of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning (LCLL) at the UCL Institute of Education.  Before joining the IOE in 2013 Toby was Director of Research and Policy and Executive Director of Leadership Development at the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) for seven years.  Before NCSL Toby worked for the Design Council, the Campaign for Learning, as Special Adviser to the Education and Skills Select Committee and for the Cabinet Office.  He has taught in Brazil, China and the UK.  Toby’s research is focused on understanding the ways in which educational policy and practice interact and the roles of leadership agency and evidence in this process. 

Esther Cook

Esther Cook is Assistant Headteacher at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School and Director of the Medway Teaching School Alliance. She is passionate about seeing genuine collaboration lead to an improvement in the quality of education, and the increase of children’s life opportunities as a result of partnership work.

Stephen Munday

Stephen Munday is the Executive Principal of Comberton Village College in Cambridge, and the Chief Executive of the Comberton Academy Trust. Since 2011, he has helped to transform Comberton, a mixed school which includes Comberton Sixth Form, into one of the most successful schools of its type in the East of England

Dr. Richard Steward

Dr. Richard Steward is the Headteacher of The Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis, the lead school for the Jurassic Coast Teaching School alliance, a group of twenty secondary and thirty primary schools stretching from Dartmoor to Poole. As well as leading the alliance, he is a DfE advisor and a school improvement consultant.  He also served on the Teaching Schools Council as the South West Representative in 2015.

Duncan Jacques

Duncan Jacques is CEO of Exceed Academies Trust and is the accounting officer for Exceed SCITT and Teaching Schools, Bradford. As an National Leader of Education, Duncan has provided extensive school-to-school support including helping to securing an “outstanding” inspection outcome (June 2016)  Canterbury Nursery School and Centre for Children and Families where he became Executive Headteacher.  Three of the four schools’ Duncan leads are now judged as “outstanding” with the fourth being “good”. All four of the schools are in areas of challenging circumstance however the three primary schools are three of Bradford’s top performing schools. Through the Teaching Schools, Duncan has developed and led leadership development programmes for aspiring executive headteachers and MAT leaders. Duncan is on Twitter: @duncanjacques1

Paul Butler

Paul Butler is responsible for the strategic and operational functions of Exceed SCITT and Teaching Schools, Bradford. Exceed Academies Trust has two Teaching Schools, led by the “outstanding” Copthorne Primary and Horton Grange Primary Schools in inner-city Bradford. The Teaching Schools have been highly influential in developing the school-led system locally and regionally and have become the leading providers of primary-focused leadership development programmes and professional learning within Bradford. Exceed SCITT was recently accredited and preparations are underway for an innovative programme to commence delivery in September 2017. Exceed SCITT and Teaching Schools are on Twitter: @ExceedTSA and @ExceedSCITT

Justin Smith

Justin is Director of Marketing and Development at Wymondham College. Following a career spent in private sector business development and marketing, Justin moved into the education sector over 13 years ago and has worked in 3 large secondary schools in Suffolk and Norfolk. Justin currently has responsibility for international and domestic marketing strategies and developing fundraising opportunities for Wymondham College. He has introduced a long term marketing strategy for the College, re-invigorating the brand and introducing social media tools to engage with diverse audiences.
In 2015 Justin was awarded the National Association of School Business Management annual Marketing Award.