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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Nelson is an Associate Consultant with Focus Education. This role involves leading large scale national
conferences, working with groups of schools, working with individual schools and inspecting schools. Tim
regularly mentors trainee inspectors.

Prior to working with Focus Education he worked as a head teacher (until 2012). Tim’s last school had a
reputation for innovation and their initiatives have been utilised by others and presented internationally. He
has a proven track record of impacting on school improvement. This has resulted in work as:

•a local leader of education
•a school improvement partner
•an Ofsted inspector
•a professional partner.

Tim is experienced at working with teams in school with a focus on all core areas of school improvement, i.e.
curriculum assessment, teaching and learning, leadership and management etc.

Tim has written a wide range of publications. Some of Tim’s most recent and best selling publications are:

? Moving Lessons to Good
? Designing Pre and Post Learning Challenges across the Curriculum
? RE Learning Challenge Curriculum
? Maths Learning Challenge Curriculum
? Music Learning Challenge Curriculum
? Design & Technology Learning Challenge Curriculum
? Art Learning Challenge Curriculum
? Enriching the Curriculum
? Judging Teaching, not the Teacher
? Judging Teaching in the Early Years, not the Early Years Teacher (co-authored with Sarah Quinn)
? Evaluating SMSC Development and the promotion of British Values

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