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Today, I became a published author! My book 'Fractured' answers one question: HOW DO WE MEND OUR DIVISIONS? (A thread on the answer).
Jon Yates
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Jon Yates
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Tweet on leadership, violence, community, education. Lead @YouthEndowFund. Board @ofstednews @childrenscomm @ukyouth Blog @ jonyates.substack.com
- Ofsted has a new interim chair. He's a trained teacher, became a head, led schools in tough areas, his schools that are now THE BEST in the country for social mobility. Incidentally, he's a muslim. What bit do you think the Telegraph decided to focus on? Utterly disgraceful.
- Replying to @GordonDComstockHi Gordon, are you trying to look like an idiot? A quick google search would tell you he founded and leads the family of schools which score best in the country for improving kids’ results. So no, that’s not what I mean. Ffs.
- You have certain mugs that ‘feel right’ for coffee and other mugs that ‘feel right’ for tea, right? Right?
- 🧵 A remarkable story from Glasgow: How the 'murder capital of Europe' cut crime by getting mothers talking to gang members and what we can learn. (1/15)
- Batley Grammar School is locked down in the middle of a lockdown. Protestors gather around the gates. Asian British men standing in small groups. They stare at each other. They check their phones. They watch the nation’s media watching them. (1/)
- Some great stories about the Queen that might brighten a sad day. First, how she ensured the King of Saudi Arabia accepted a woman driver
- Having left the Department for Education time to share some thoughts. Today: “Why is the UK crap at technical education?” (a thread)
- Over the summer of 2020, something VERY ODD happened in Southend-on-Sea... A surprising 🧵on how to cut crime: (1/19)
- Three years ago I took my first charity CEO job. I couldn’t do it without these 25 habits. 👇
- Replying to @jonpayatesWhen American Tourists didn't realise she was the Queen and asked her to take their photo x.com/Seccor33/statu…
- A short 🧵 on what Grimsby can teach us about cutting crime. (1/8)
- Replying to @jonpayatesWhen she had to host the Trumps and turned up wearing a brooch the Obamas had given her
- I'm absolutely delighted to see Sir Hamid Patel @MuftiPatel become interim Chair of Ofsted - filling some great sized shoes left by Dame Christine Ryan. Hamid built and runs the best performing family of schools in the country. I am proud to call him a friend.
