2001 - Aug 2010 Deputy Head Teacher, De La Salle School and Languages College
- All Performance Management targets met or exceeded every year for 11 years
- Outstanding classroom performance and highest residuals in the English department for a decade
- Judged Outstanding twice by OFSTED
- In one recent year he secured 21 A* or A grades in a group of 28 and no pupil obtained below a grade C
- Played a leading role in the school being declared a "Most improved School" by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
- Designer of lesson plan template which is improving practice across the school
- Improved the quality of lesson observation across the school so that is sharper
- Professional Tutor for over a decade inducting and recruiting and training over a third of the school's teachers
- Author of whole school policies (such as Teaching and Learning, Assessment for Learning (both praised by OFSTED in 2007) and Monitoring and Evaluation
- Publication of a series of monthly articles for teachers to spread best practice
- Creator, deliverer of an eighteen month school improvement project
- This was Published by Essex County Councils' FLARE (Forums for Learning and Research Enquiry) as 'Nailing Custard to the Wall,' and he was invited to present this work at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona
- Establishment of Teacher Learning Communities
1999 - 2001 Assistant Head Teacher, De la Salle school and languages college
- Appointed to address whole school issues of Literacy
- Weak line management and make the school ready for Inspection
- Result: "An effective and Improving School" OFSTED 2001
- After less than two years promoted to Deputy Headship
1997 -1999 Head of English, Friern Barnet School,
- Literacy Co-coordinator
- OFSTED Action Plan Group Leader
- Chair of Pupil Personal Development Group
- Co-opted on to Senior Management
1987 - 1996 Head of English, St. Edward's Comprehensive, Romford
- Head of English for last three years
- Out of intake of 180 students, 90 pursued English in the sixth form
- For three years running Francis's department had the highest A’ Level coursework marks in the country
- The NEAB made two training films of his teaching
1986 -1987 The Independent, (The National Broadsheet)
- One of only eight graduates employed when the newspaper was founded
- Recruited because of exceptional quality of writing skills
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