Katherine Walsh Director of Inclusion

Katherine is an experienced teacher and school leader, bringing more than 15 years' experience to her role. She is an experienced SENCO, with experience leading SEND provision in mainstream schools in England and America. Katherine has taught in both primary and secondary schools as a class teacher, qualified teacher of the deaf and autism resource base teacher. Over the past ten years, Katherine has developed particular expertise in working with leadership teams to develop school-wide systems, establishing shared and inclusive visions for the education of children and young people with SEND. Katherine is the regional SEND leader for South Central England and Northwest London with Whole School SEND and was a project director for the Educational Endowment Foundation’s SEND Review Trial. She contributed to the drafting of the NPQ SENCO Content Framework was a lead author for the Teacher Handbook: SEND.