Dr Tony Breslin
educationalist; school governor; author, Lessons from Lockdown: the educational legacy of Covid-19; director, Breslin Public Policy Limited

Tony’s latest book, Lessons from Lockdown: the educational legacy of Covid-19, was published by Routledge in January 2021 and tracks the experience of teaching, learning and school leadership through the early stages of lockdown in spring and summer 2020. He is currently working on the sequel, Bubble Schools: the long road from lockdown, which picks up this story from the fall of 2020 and takes us through to the close of the 2020-21 academic year. His reports, ‘A Place for Learning: putting learning at the heart of citizenship, civic identity and community life’ (RSA, 2016), and ‘Who Governs Our Schools? Trends, Tensions and Opportunities’ (RSA, 2017), have made important contributions to policy and practice in the fields of school governance and lifelong learning.

Tony’s experience in governance and as a senior leader in education, and in the voluntary sector, is extensive. A teacher by profession and a curriculum development specialist, he is currently chair at Bushey Primary Education Federation, a director at Anthem Schools Trust and a governance trainer with Herts for Learning. He was, until recently, a trustee of Adoption UK and has served as a school improvement adviser, a chief examiner at GCSE, the chair of a teachers’ subject association and as a charity CEO.

Tony is a champion of the social curriculum, professional and vocational education and lifelong learning, themes that are common in a publications list featuring over 120 articles, papers and texts, and in the work of the successful social impact consultancy that he leads, Breslin Public Policy Limited.

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