Steve has been teaching for over 20 years and has been involved in leading on professional development programmes and school improvement support for several years. He is passionate about teaching and learning and supporting teachers to develop their teaching practice. Steve was Director of HISP Research School for 4 years , running many CPD programmes and leading on several partnership projects across the region, involving teaching assistants, ECTs, middle and senior leaders.

For the last two years Steve has been the lead of the Hampshire and Dorset Science Learning Partnership (curriculum hub for science), overseeing CPD and support for science technicians, primary teachers and secondary teachers. During this time he has also had a school improvement role across HISP MAT, as well as facilitating ECT training and NPQs for HISP Teaching School Hub, and being part of the assessment team for IFT HISP teacher training.