Meet our Teacher Advisory Board

Our Board has a wealth of teaching experience that informs our strategy year on year

What is the Teacher Advisory Board?

Our Teacher Advisory Board is a collective of 8 educational leaders who help us keep our schools at the heart of all we do. We meet for a termly roundtable discussion to draw on their wealth of MyTutor experience and understand the challenges they face in school today.

We've discussed everything from the effectiveness of post-Covid interventions to how to continue to grow our parent and pupil impact. Our learnings on the barriers to engagement in school and how best to overcome them are already shaping our strategic direction for the next academic year.

Meet our board of experts

April Gurney | Trust School Improvement Leader, Basildon Academies Trust

The best engagement we've seen with tutoring is in Year 7 - starting then, and continuing into Year 8 and 9. The resistance is diminishing over time because it's become a normalised part of the curriculum.

Fiona Stanley | Associate Assistant Head at Highworth Warneford School

Lots of our tutors have been brilliant and the kids have been really sad when their sessions are finished - they really have a rapport with them which means they can really benefit from it.

Nimah Abdulla | Assistant Headteacher at The City of Leicester College

The tutoring has been quite transformational in lots of different ways. We do things like attendance competitions: some come from MyTutor, but we also run our own!

Gary Green | Director of School Improvement and Development at Bohunt Education Trust

All children have got dreams – this is where I think tutoring has a huge role to play – enabling children to see the potential in themselves they had not seen before.

Josh Lampard | Assistant Headteacher at Farlingaye High School

We try to showcase families who were positively impacted by our engagement initiatives. After 3 years with MyTutor we’ve learnt those students with families who are engaged have much more success.

Lee Berrill | Assistant Principal at Weston Favell

We're promoting cultural capital with disadvantaged students to ensure that they're motivated. I try to link that to the MyTutor model, which is more than just academic progression!

Ben West | Director of Sixth Form and Raising Aspirations Lead at The Garibaldi School

We've always sold tutoring as a mentoring opportunity and always say to the kids, why don't you use it to ask them a little bit about what it's like to study at university?

Closing the attainment gap one lesson at a time

Speaking at the EdTech Summit at the Schools & Academies Show Birmingham, our Teacher Advisory Board members, Nimah and Gary, gave a fantastic presentation on how they're closing attainment gaps in their schools with MyTutor.

Talk to us to join the Board

We're welcoming new members from MyTutor partner schools

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