Key Themes: geography, leadership, teacher development and initial teacher education (ITE), education, teachers
Grace Healy is the Education Director (Secondary) at David Ross Education Trust. Grace leads the Trust’s curriculum and teacher development work and a curriculum team of Trust-wide subject leads. As part of this role, she works closely with Principals to sustain a model for continuously renewing all aspects of curriculum intent, to build capacity in senior curriculum leadership, and to ensure a culture of subject-sensitivity and disciplinary rigor pervades all work on teacher development.
She has been the founding Director of a Teaching School Hub and continues to maintain strategic oversight of the Teaching School Hub as Chair of the TSH’s Strategic Board. She has previously led the geography subject community across a multi-academy trust of 13 primary and secondary schools and contributed to the leadership of a SCITT. Grace is undertaking a Ph.D. at the UCL Institute of Education.
Grace chairs the Teacher Education Phase Committee of the Geographical Association and has been elected on to the Council of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) as Honorary Secretary (Education). She is Treasurer for GEReCo and the RGS’s Geography and Education Research Group. Grace is a corresponding member of the editorial board of Teaching Geography. She also serves on British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) Publication Committee and on the editorial boards of The Curriculum Journal and the London Review of Education.