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About HeadteacherChat

Meet Lucy and Jonathan Coy, the school leaders who founded HeadteacherChat, and the community they created.

Meet the foundersHow it began

HeadteacherChat in brief

What it is
HeadteacherChat is a trusted peer community for people currently carrying school-leadership responsibility, including headteachers, deputy headteachers and assistant headteachers.
What it offers
  • A private peer community for members, on the web and in a mobile app.
  • The Roundup, a public weekly briefing with official sources linked.
  • Printed planners. Individual membership does not include a printed planner. School membership includes a planner each, while stocks last and subject to availability.
  • Downloadable resources, included in membership or bought individually.

Meet Lucy and Jonathan Coy

Lucy and Jonathan Coy founded HeadteacherChat and continue to lead its editorial, community, and commercial work.

Lucy Coy

Lucy Coy

Co-founder

Lucy Coy is co-founder of HeadteacherChat®, a former acting headteacher, deputy headteacher, assistant headteacher and inclusion lead. She creates school leader planners and supports education consultancy, resources and marketing for education organisations. Lucy is a Member of the Chartered College of Teaching.

“I played a key role in leading a school from Special Measures to Good in less than a year, and as a result of this, my work was recognised by Dame Alison Peacock in her book, ‘Assessment for Learning Without Limits.’ I am the creator of our school leader planners as these are copies of my notebooks when I was a serving leader.”

Jonathan Coy

Jonathan Coy

Co-founder

Jonathan Coy is co-founder of HeadteacherChat®, a qualified coach, education consultant and former school leader with close to 30 years in education, including senior leadership and a Deputy CEO role in a multi-academy trust. He has served as a trustee and governor, and is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.

“Both Lucy and I met at Teacher Training college when we were young, and we’ve been teachers ever since. I am a regular speaker about school leadership during conference, webinars and podcasts.”

How HeadteacherChat began

HeadteacherChat was founded in 2012 by Lucy and Jonathan Coy. What began as a weekly conversation between school leaders has grown into a peer community of over 10,000 members.

Why school leaders come here

Leadership can be isolating. Drawing on their experience as headteachers and senior leaders, Lucy and Jonathan found that the most useful advice often came from peers sharing what had worked in their own schools. HeadteacherChat was created to make that practical support easier to find and share.

Who it is for

The paid community is for headteachers, deputy heads, assistant heads and people in comparable roles who currently carry operational responsibility for leading a school. Member conversations stay inside the private member community.

How we write and check our pages

Lucy and Jonathan Coy lead HeadteacherChat’s editorial work.

Topic guides
Our guides to Ofsted, SEND, safeguarding and other topics show the date they were last reviewed, and change only through a reviewed edit.
Official sources
Where a page states a statutory, inspection or regulatory fact, it links the current official source. That source is the authority: check it before you act.
The Roundup
Follow changes to official guidance for your topic, role and nation.
Corrections
Anyone can request a correction. We fix a mistake where it is written, rather than hiding it on the page.

Summaries by AI from the GOV.UK change; check the source before acting. AI also selects tracked official and sector items for each topic, role and nation; the facts shown come from the source.

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Commercial partnerships

Some organisations featured are commercial partners. HeadteacherChat® may receive a fee or commission from partnerships or purchases made through our links. Schools remain responsible for their own due diligence and procurement decisions.

Company

HeadteacherChat Ltd, company registration no. 14015248 (opens in a new tab), is registered in England and Wales.

Registered address: The Enterprise Centre, University Of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England, NR4 7TJ.

Brand

Brand design and illustration support by Charlotte Chapman, brand designer and illustrator (opens in a new tab).

HeadteacherChat is a registered trade mark (UK00003655110). Brand assets