Tracey O’Brien

Tracey O'Brien has been a school leader for 15 years in London schools where she has worked in a variety of roles including deputy headteacher and acting headteacher. Through this time she has been responsible for the full range of leadership activity including improving teaching and learning, delivering high-quality CPD, planning school self-review and evaluation (Ofsted readiness), and leading on behaviour and inclusion at different times. She has worked for London Challenge supporting other schools and she set up and became the director of one of the early Teaching Schools. Tracey has written leadership courses for middle and senior leaders, delivered teaching programmes as an AST and was awarded one of the few London Commissioner Teacher roles. She has recently published ‘School self-review – a sensible approach: How to know and tell the story of your school’.