Meet the Team
Meet the central team below, or click here to read up on our Secondary Programme Team
Georgina Crooks
Director of SCITT
Georgina is the Assistant Director for the HISP Teaching School Hub. She has 20 years of experience in the secondary and sixth form sector and has led teaching and learning development through her role as Subject Lead for a range of English courses.
For much of her career, she has also worked delivering professional development with a responsibility for facilitating whole college training and supporting PGCE trainees, early career teachers and more experienced staff through mentoring and coaching. She has a real passion for teaching and learning and supports a large secondary school as a governor and works with AQA as a Senior Associate.
Jo McKeown
Learning Partner
Jo is the Trust School Improvement Lead and Director of HISP Learning Partnership
Terry Russell
External Quality Assurance
Terry is our External Moderator and has worked as a consultant for the NCTL (previously the TDA) since 2009 in the Performance and Analysis area, mainly involved in the quality assurance of ITT. Prior to this, he was Head of Secondary Teacher Training in an outstanding provider. He has considerable experience of inspection and was an ITT inspector each year from 2001 – 2017.
Helen Salisbury
SCITT Administrator
Helen is the SCITT Administrator for the Hampshire SCITT Partnership. Helen started her career within the pharmaceutical industry and after a career break moved to administrator roles within the University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital before starting within us in September 2020.