Consultant focus:
Christine Schofield
Core delivery areas:
North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, but travels further afield according to need
Principal Consultant
Christine has worked in education for over 35 years, 20 of which have been in school improvement. This has included being senior adviser for a local authority, an inspector for Ofsted, a DfE adviser, North West Regional Adviser for the National Strategies and Director of School Improvement for a Multi-Academy Trust. She has worked extensively with a significant number of primary and secondary schools and MATs, in a wide variety of different contexts and developmental stages.
Christine has worked with B11 since 2012 and been our Principal Consultant since 2018.
Areas of expertise
- Whole school and department review
- Acting as a school improvement partner for primary and secondary schools
- Headteacher appraisal
- Provision of external quality assurance for MATs
- Working with partnerships of schools to support peer review programmes
- Working with senior and middle leaders to quality assure the work in their areas of responsibility, including development planning
- Subject leader development
- Provision of pre- and post-Ofsted support
