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Matt Bromley is an education journalist, author, and advisor with over twenty five years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and academy principal, further education college vice principal, multi-academy trust director, and multiple board member. He is a public speaker, trainer, school and college improvement advisor, and school governor. He remains a practising teacher, working in secondary, FE and HE settings, and is the lead lecturer on a national initial teacher training programme.
Matt writes for various newspapers and magazines including SecEd, Headteacher Update, SEN Leader, TES, School Inspection+Improvement Magazine, Children & Young People Now, and Teach Secondary. He is a senior member of SecEd’s editorial board and co-hosts their award-winning podcast, chairs many of their live webinars, and writes most of their monthly pull-out best practice supplements. He is also a columnist at The Yorkshire Post, one of Britain’s most trusted and historic daily newspapers.
He is the author of numerous best-selling books for teachers including ‘How to Become a School Leader’, ‘The Art of Public Speaking’, ‘Making Key Stage 3 Count’, ‘The New Teacher Survival Kit’, as well as a How To trilogy – ‘How to Teach’, ‘How to Learn’ and ‘How to Lead’ – and a 3-volume series on ‘School & College Curriculum Design’, recently updated and abridged as ‘Head, Hand, and Heart: How to Design and Deliver an Ambitious School Curriculum’. ‘The Working Classroom’, which he co-authored with Andy Griffith for Crown House Publishing, was highly commended by the SchoolsWeek Awards, shortlisted for an Edufuturists inclusion and diversity champions award, and attracted significant interest from the national media including in The Times and on James O’Brien’s LBC show. ‘The Stories We Tell’ was published by Routledge in 2024. His last book, ‘Why School Doesn’t Work for Every Child’, also by Routledge, is the first in a 4-book series on inclusion and belonging. The second book in the series, ‘Making the Classroom Work for Every Child’, is out November 2025. His latest book is ‘How to Ace Ofsted by Making Every Day Inspection-Ready’.
His education blog has been voted one of the UK’s most influential and receives over 50,000 visitors a year.
If you would like Matt to write for your newspaper, magazine, newsletter or website – either under his own by-line or as a ghost-writer – or would like to contract his professional editing services, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Proofreading
Here at bee we can also provide a range of proofreading services. We have experts in proofreading and can assist in the writing of professional education texts including:
- Self-Evaluation Forms (SEFs)
- Self-Assessment Forms (SARs)
- School improvement plans (SIPs)
- Quality improvement plans (QIPs)
- Position statements for inspection
- Policies and procedures
If you like to discuss your proofreading needs, please contact us.
