Ryan is the trust’s Director of School Improvement (Inclusion).

As Executive Head Teacher of Meden School, The Garibaldi School and NUAST — all three schools are Ofsted-rated ‘Good’ — Ryan oversees their developments as they continue their journeys.

Prior to this appointment, Ryan was the highly-effective Head Teacher at The Garibaldi School. Having been appointed as Head Teacher at Garibaldi in September 2015, he had a mission to make the school a true school of choice for Mansfield and surrounding areas. Under his leadership the school consistently achieved high outcomes that ranked Garibaldi as a top performing school. Garibaldi is now truly a school of choice and is very heavily oversubscribed.

Ryan also currently oversees Assessment, Developing Digital Literacy and School Improvement Planning across the Trust and he has a real expertise in system development, coaching, mentoring and developing high quality leaders.