I am Andrew Jones, Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning, CPD and Professional Mentoring at The Reach Free School in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. I am also a Head of House and teach Religious Education (RE) and Sociology.

Alongside my role at The Reach, I serve as a Professional Development Lead with the Watford Partnership for Teacher Training (WPfTT), which I helped to establish. The WPfTT recruits and supports trainee and early career teachers across Watford and South-West Hertfordshire. We now work with 18 schools, support more than 150 trainees and early career teachers, and deliver 132 training sessions each year at a range of venues.

I have previously served as Vice Chair of Governors at Cranborne Primary School in Potters Bar, am a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, and have been a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Teaching Profession.

Before co-founding the WPfTT, I was a Specialist Leader of Education (with a focus on RE) within the Herts & Bucks Teaching Schools Alliance, co-manager of the Herts & Bucks Challenge Partners Hub, and a subject tutor for RE at the University of Hertfordshire.

I am the author of Homework with Impact (Routledge, 2022) and Teaching Sociology Successfully (Routledge, 2017), and I contributed to Re-imagining Education in England (edited by Georgina Newman and Chris Waterman, Iris Press, 2021). In addition to these publications, I have written for The Guardian, HuffPost, TES, RE Today, SecEd Magazine, Headteachers’ Update and EdChatUK, as well as several peer-reviewed academic journals.

I am also currently undertaking an EdD at The Open University.

Over the past 13 years I have written blogs for various organisations, and I am collating and re-posting them all here. All blogs reflect my own views and not necessarily those of my employers.

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