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Antonia Spinks

CEO, Pioneer Educational Trust
Antonia Spinks is the CEO of Pioneer Educational Trust, a small multi-academy trust in Berkshire.  She has over twenty years’ experience as a teacher and leader in a variety of school contexts having trained as an English teacher.  She is particularly concerned with tackling disadvantage in schools and ensuring that pupils with additional and special educational needs receive the best possible education.  Antonia is a trained leadership coach.  She is actively involved in a range of grassroots organisations, is a non-executive director of Whole Education, and fulfils governance roles for a range of settings.  Antonia is a specialist in flexible working in schools having led the DfE’s Flexible Working Ambassador Project for the South East region.  She is currently studying for an EdD.  Antonia’s research interests include the organisational culture of schools and trusts, and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in schools.