{"id":2,"date":"2012-04-14T00:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T00:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T19:29:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ksa-150x150.png\" alt=\"KSA Secondary\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ksa-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ksa-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ksa.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nI started teaching in 2004 with the Teach First programme. After 2 years I made a move into the City to be a sustainable buildings champion with Arup. I missed working with young people so I combined sustainability with schools and became &#8216;<a title=\"Mr Greeny\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrgreeny.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr Greeny<\/a>&#8216; for a while. Then the chance to be part of the founding team of a small school came up and I made the happy move back to teaching full-time. For nearly 6 years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsolomonacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Solomon Academy<\/a>, I was Head of Maths and a member of SLT. I&#8217;m very proud of the work we did as a team and chuffed to bits that our leading group of pupils received <a href=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/how-we-achieved-dramatically-good-gcse-results-in-the-poorest-ward-in-london\/\" title=\"How we achieved dramatically good GCSE results in the poorest ward in London\">senstational GCSE results<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Family.jpg\" alt=\"Family\" width=\"581\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1833\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Family.jpg 581w, http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Family-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><br \/>\nIn September 2014, I moved out of London to be closer to my wonderful parents, and with the move sadly had to leave KSA. I still regard KSA as my teaching home and going back to visit, as I do regularly, always fills me with pride.<\/p>\n<p>As hard as it was to leave my colleagues and pupils, looking back now I can say it was the right decision as my dad only survived another 14 months. That was precious time, which in some ways I wish I could put on a loop and play forever.<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s now been a few years since I stepped out of the classroom and one day I&#8217;ll be a full-time teacher again (I can&#8217;t wait). Right now I spend more hours per week on maths education than ever on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Times Tables Rock Stars &#8211; a times tables platform for schools and families<\/li>\n<li>NumBots &#8211; a programme to develop recall and understanding from subitising to subtraction strategies<\/li>\n<li>Mavedu &#8211; delivering great maths problems from the author to maths students<\/li>\n<li>Consultancy &#8211; some guest teaching and medium-term partnerships with a handful of schools each year. Mostly focused on curriculum design, mixed attainment teaching and lesson design and whole school aspects around behaviour, culture, routines and expectations.<\/li>\n<li>DfE work &#8211; I&#8217;ve sat on a few panels including a Sheffield Hallam-led evaluation of the England-Shanghai teacher exchange and a review of primary textbooks.<\/li>\n<li>AQA Expert Panel &#8211; we convene once a term to discuss key priorities for AQA.\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--\nOver a jigsaw with my dad or a train set with my sons, I'll be plotting what I do next. I won't stray from maths education and already have a few things up my sleeve, which centre around getting children to have some self-belief in maths. That's probably why I developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/design-your-own-mastery-curriculum-in-maths\/\" title=\"Design your own mastery curriculum in maths\">mastery maths curriculum<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ttrockstars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times Tables Rock Stars<\/a> when I did. If I don't go back to teaching for a while, it's because I'm trying at a system level to ensure 16 year olds who have the odds stacked against them, get top grades at GCSE. \n--><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:0;\"> Contact me for any of the following:<\/div>\n<ul >\n<li>Supporting your school&#8217;s maths department.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking or training on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrreddy.com\/project24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blended learning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/hi-bruno-bbc-are-in-reception-for-you\/\" title=\"\u201cHi Bruno, BBC are in reception for you.\u201d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mastery maths<\/a>, or Teach Like A Champion techniques<\/li>\n<li>Advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/lehain.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/08\/no-ifs-no-buts-what-we-can-learn-from.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">starting a high-performing school<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>To offer me some guidance on making homebrew cider or how to play the piano. I stink at both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bruno<br \/>\nbruno@mrreddy.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started teaching in 2004 with the Teach First programme. After 2 years I made a move into the City to be a sustainable buildings champion with Arup. 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