His educational vision was strengthened again by taking a Masters Degree in Education at Exeter University, between 1985 and 1990, competing highly acclaimed research into Assessing Responses to Poetry and taking Psychology in Education as a subsidiary subject.

After teaching and leading English in three schools in Hertfordshire, Tim spent three-and-a-half years as Director of Studies at Peers School, Oxford. He enjoyed responsibility for curriculum development in a school with a national reputation for curriculum innovation, with individual, modular learning paths at GCSE.

In 1991, he became Deputy Head at The John Bentley School in Wiltshire, firstly responsible for curriculum monitoring and assessment, then for Individual Development, including all personnel and pastoral concerns.
He moved on to Headship of the Stonehenge School, Amesbury in 1997, working with established and newly-appointed staff to develop an inclusive and connected culture, where each individual was valued and all understood the nature of their unique responsibility to themselves and the school.

He was amongst the first eighty-three people to be awarded the NPQH by Tony Blair, in Westminster in 1998

His vision and leadership were praised by OFSTED in 1999.

He left in 2001 to form aHead-Space as an education consultancy. For two years, he worked independently in a number of contexts: as Threshold Assessor and External Adviser for Heads’ Performance Review; Co-ordinator of the Wiltshire Association of Secondary Headteachers; part-time teacher in his local comprehensive school and member of a Research Group at Bath University, for whose Education Department he also helped to organise the Food for Thought seminar series. He was invited to speak and run workshops at Senior Management and Governor Conferences in Norfolk and North Somerset and was employed as a consultant by schools in Wiltshire and West Berkshire

In 2003, he developed the concept of Space for Transformation and broadened aHead-Space to involve the work of invited independent professionals of high calibre.

Tim Small's full c.v. is available on request,
please contact: tim@ahead-space.com