About Sensitive Education Consultancy

Jan Martin (SENSItive Education Consultancy Ltd.) specialises in working with primary and secondary schools, PRUs, Local Authorities, and independent school groups on a range of school improvement activities; self-evaluation, primary and secondary curriculum development, strategies for improving learning and teaching, building effective leadership and management at all levels, and providing strategic and operational advice on developing Inclusion & SEN provision.

Jan provides support for Local Authority officers and support staff, headteachers, principals, deputy headteachers, senior leaders, SENCOs, teachers, support staff and governors. Jan’s services have proved invaluable for raising performance in school settings, as well as being well regarded by LA and higher education staff, inspectors and consultants.

Jan has had a very successful career in education;

• Professional development lead for an international project in Saudi Arabia to nurture giftedness and creativity
• Non-executive director of EBM2, an IT business that has developed a very successful Behaviour Software package for schools.*
• Intervention work in struggling special schools
• SEN Adviser and Principal of Special School for English Schools Foundation, Hong Kong
• Head of School Improvement & Performance, Northamptonshire
• Secondary and Special School Improvement Partner
• Head of Inclusion & Pupil Support, Northamptonshire
• Ofsted inspector – Secondary, SEN, EAL – over 50 inspections
• SEN Inspector & Adviser for Northamptonshire
• SENCo + Manager of Special Provision, Northamptonshire
• Deputy Head of a Special School in Tower Hamlets
• SENCo in 2 large comprehensives in Islington & Hackney
• Has worked with national recognized experts on SEN, Inclusion and Giftedness & Creativity, including Maria Landy, well-known SEN expert (www.marialandy.co.uk)

* "Behaviour Manager is a behavioural management tool used for tracking and improving behaviour, for all teachers, support staff and third party agencies. BM enables schools to quickly capture data, including a variety SEN & BESD specific information and present back in a meaningful way (statistical analysis). All data is fully audited ensuring all information viewed or modified can be traced back to a user, time and date." For details go to; http://www.behaviourmanager.co.uk