Phil B.
Britain's Most Celebrated Schoolteacher
Professional Value
Phil is a teacher‑trainer who helps headteachers of challenging UK secondary schools achieve transformational English results. He has delivered the highest CVA scores in London, repeatedly made schools the most‑improved in their boroughs, and earned both National and London Secondary Teacher of the Year awards. His work focuses on disadvantaged London boroughs.
Executive Profile
Phil is an award-winning teacher, an award-winning (former) broadcaster, an education consultant, teacher trainer, public speaker, author, and a former broadsheet columnist.
Phil has a long history of delivering transformational English results in schools in challenging circumstances. Schools and academies he has worked in have been the most improved school in the country (in the year when he worked there), had the highest CVA in London, and been the most improved school/academy in their borough time and time again. He is a former winner in the United Kingdom Secondary Teacher of the Year Award in the National Teaching Awards and the winner of the London Secondary Teacher of the Year in the same year.
As a consultant, he is an expert in literacy and behaviour management, and is a vastly experienced teacher trainer, as well as being the education speaker that other speakers don’t bunk. He has written for every broadsheet newspaper in the UK (aside from the Independent), most memorably as an education columnist for the Guardian for ten years, during which time he was nominated for a European Commission Award for the promotion of equality in journalism.
Core Competencies
Communication
Phil possesses strong communication skills, developed through teaching and negotiating with challenging students.
He motivates and diffuses conflict effectively.
Education & Training
Phil is a national expert in education, focusing on the skills needed to create engaging learning experiences.
He trains educators to induce exciting learning for students.
Presentation Skills
Phil delivers presentations in an entertaining and charismatic manner.
As a public speaker and former broadcaster, he has refined his skills to engage audiences effectively.