Phil Jones
Education Consultant
Phil has taught in both primary and secondary schools with the majority of his teaching taking place in the comprehensive sector where he has senior leadership team experience. He has worked as a Local Authority Adviser with responsibility for school improvement, developing networks of schools and teachers to share good practice. Phil has worked as a lead Ofsted inspector in primary, secondary and special schools.In 1998 Phil became Director of the Education Action Zone in Stoke-on Trent, working on behalf of the DfE to raise standards and develop innovative practice. His next post was as Director of the Transforming Secondary Education Programme in the city of Nottingham. Here, through constructing a variety of partnerships to support school improvement in one of the most challenging areas of the country the Programme helped schools and the Local Authority to achieve significant and sustainable improvements in the performance of pupils in the city’s schools.
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Phil subsequently worked as a Senior Adviser for the DfE within the School Improvement and Excellence Division. Here the focus was on supporting some of England’s most challenging schools across the country in devising improvement strategies, including establishing soft and hard federations. He has also supported the Innovation Unit’s Leading Edge Partnership Programme specifically in the area of developing strategies to use data to track the effective of innovative practice. Phil has also worked as an Executive with the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Art’s, an organisation dedicated to developing creative and innovative ideas which can enhance learning.
Phil is co- author of a highly successful book on educational leadership and management. He has a book on the Personalisation of Learning due for publication in May 2006. He is an experienced trainer and consultant in the areas of teaching and learning, leadership in education, using data and developing effective partnerships.