My role is as an excellent skills teacher and leader in English at a city academy with a high percentage of Pupil Premium children – a situation which many middle leaders may find themselves in.
North Liverpool Academy is an exciting environment to work in; one where change and experimentation is encouraged in order to close the achievement gap.
It was with this spirit that I took my first intrepid steps into the world of the Teaching Leaders Fellows programme, after being invited to apply with a smile and a pat on the back from my principal.
“Dan,” he said, “we want you to join the programme and develop some strategies to boost the performance of pupils in English, as well as develop the team.”
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