DESMOND DEEHAN, CEO, ODYSSEY TRUST FOR EDUCATION, UK Townley Grammar School is an 11–18 selective girls’ school in the London Borough of Bexley. It is a large grammar, with approximately 1,500 students in a selective authority with three other grammars. The school has an ethnically diverse population with approximately one third black African, one third white British and one third Asian, of whom Indian is the largest contingent. In September 2018 it became the founding member of the Odyssey Trust for Education, becoming the sponsor for King Henry School (formerly Erith School), a large co-ed secondary modern. I subsequently became the CEO, having previously been the headteacher of Townley Grammar for 10 years. This article refers to Townley Grammar School rather than the Trust; however, the decision to form a trust had intended consequences for teacher career progression at Townley Grammar. In our work on teacher progression, we referred to the four-part institutional t
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