Pauline Hoare can support your work through management audit, advice and support. She is a gifted and inspiring teacher and can offer transformational training across a range of fields. Pauline is keen to extend her understanding of educational management through taking on step-in roles at management level in settings or in local authorities.

Pauline led the QCDA team that developed the Foundation Stage Profile, the statutory assessment for five year olds. She is committed to the use and effective analysis of observational assessment to improve progress and attainment birth to 11 particularly for children living in disadvantage. She championed the use of observational assessment from birth to four through Progress Matters and its supporting materials. She wrote, introduced and supported the Making a Big Difference programme. In participating local authorities, this programme has increased the achievement of children living in disadvantage at four times the rate of their advantaged peers. She supported local authority development through the Buddying programme. This programme encourages practitioners from different birth to 11 settings to work together to improve their own practice: it is becoming evident that where highly skilled professionals act as role models they improve achievements in both parents and their children. The increase in parental self-esteem then further improves their children's achievement. Pauline is working on this area at Cordis Bright and would welcome LA and practitioner interest in these research projects.

Pauline has worked at management level in business and education. She has made the most of this through an MBA in Improvement through Inspection. She has been successful as a head teacher, a primary inspector and Head of Early Years. She has worked at a high level nationally, at QCDA and in the National Strategies.