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Steve Hawke
Steve taught for 34 years in the West Midlands with spells in Walsall, Dudley, Birmingham,
Wolverhampton and, most recently, Telford & Wrekin. As a Physical Education practitioner he
gained middle leadership experience as a Head of Department, Head of Year and Head of House.
Steve moved into Senior Leadership in 1995 and took up his first Headship in 2003. After 5 years
as the Headteacher at Deansfield High School in Wolverhampton, he was appointed as founding
Principal of The Abraham Darby Academy in 2008.
As a senior leader, Steve has worked at a ‘fresh start’ school, a school in ‘special measures’, a
school ‘facing challenging circumstances’, and a ‘traditional’ academy and as such has extensive
experience of turning around underperforming/failing schools. Having worked in some of the most
challenging communities the region has to offer, he is passionate about the moral purpose of
schools to ‘make a difference’ to the lives of young people.
In September 2014 Steve took up the part time role of West Midlands Regional Director for The
Future Leaders Trust where he uses his experience to train, coach and mentor aspiring
Headteachers to the leadership of ‘challenging schools.’
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