Stepping into Senior Leadership with Jon Tait
Biography Leader Jon is an influential and inspirational education leader who is currently deputy headteacher in a large and diverse North East secondary school. Jon’s innovative approach to school and organisational leadership challenges the habits that have gone before, looking at ways to improve education through change management. Jon graduated with his NPQH (National Professional Headteacher Qualification) in 2017. Teacher As a classroom teacher he has experience of working in 3 different North East schools for over 15 years. Trained as a Physical Education teacher, Jon taught both boys and girls PE for over 10 years before now teaching Computer Science. Jon is an expert in teaching and learning and is responsible for the strategic leadership of the quality of teaching in his school. Jon has also been recognised by Microsoft as one of their Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts and forms part of their global educator visionary team, showcasing how technology can pave the way to better student outcomes. Author Jon regularly writes for his own education blog on topics about strategic school leadership and classroom pedagogy. He also is a regular education blogger for various UK education websites and contributes regular thoughts and think pieces on topical matters across the education landscape. He is also a published author for Bloomsbury Publishing writing 4 titles on education. Speaker Jon regularly presents at TeachMeets and teaching conferences both in the UK and internationally via Skype. This has included presentations to conferences in New York, Ohio and Dubai along with national conferences here in the UK. Jon also delivered a talk on the world famous TED stage in 2015, talking about ‘The Future of Learning’.