The criteria for the Senior Leaders on the review team will be based on the National College’s designation criteria for specialist leaders of education. The Senior Leaders shall come from a Partner school and will:

• Be an outstanding practitioner
• Be on the school’s leadership team
• Have a successful track record, supported by impact evidence, of working effectively within their own school and/or across a group of schools, or working with a range of staff within a single school
• Have evidence of successfully using coaching and/or facilitation skills to bring about improvement
• Have excellent communication skills, with the ability to work sensitively and collaboratively with peer colleagues
• Have an understanding of what constitutes satisfactory, good and outstanding elements of school practice and have the ability and confidence to articulate this