Katharine Birbalsingh

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Katharine Moana Birbalsingh (born 16 September 1973) is an education reform advocate and the founder and head teacher of Michaela Community School, a free school established in 2014 in Wembley Park, London. The daughter of an Indo-Guyanese academic and a Jamaican nurse, Birbalsingh was born in New Zealand and raised in Canada until she was 15, when she moved to England. She cultivated an interest in education when reading French and philosophy at New College, Oxford and, after graduating, went into teaching at state schools in south London. She began writing a blog, To Miss with Love, in 2007 under the name Miss Snuffy, and later offered her support to the education policies of the Conservative Party and the reforms made by Michael Gove as Education Secretary. She has said that she holds small-c conservative values. Birbalsingh is the author of two books, Singleholic (2009) and To Miss with Love (2011), and editor of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way (2016) and Michaela...

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