Barnaby Lenon taught at Eton for 12 years, was the deputy head of Highgate School, head of Trinity School Croydon and head of Harrow for 12 years. He then helped establish the London Academy of Excellence in East London, one of the most successful state sixth form Academies, where he is chairman of governors. He is also chairman of the Independent Schools Council and has been a governor of 16 state and independent schools. He is a director of the New Schools Network which helps groups wishing to establish new schools under the government’s free schools policy. He was a member of the board of Ofqual during the implementation of the Gove reforms to GCSEs and A-levels and is now on their Standards Advisory Committee.
He has written six books including, recently, Much Promise about high-achieving state schools and Other People’s Children about the least academic 50% in England. He researches the characteristics of effective teachers in the UK and USA.
Publications
- Lenon, B and Cleves, P, 1983, Techniques and Fieldwork in Geography, UTP
- Lenon, B., London, 1988, Unwin Hyman
- Lenon, B., 1993, London in the 1990s, Geographical Association
- Burnett, C., Flinders, K. and Lenon, B., 1995, The United Kingdom, Hodder and Stoughton
- Lenon, B and Cleves, P, 2015, Geography Fieldwork and Skills, Collins
- Lenon, B et al, 2016, Cambridge AS and A-level Geography, HarperCollins
- Lenon, B, 2017, Much Promise: successful schools in England, John Catt
- Lenon, B, 2018, Other People’s Children, John Catt