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Ruth Whiteside

@ruthcoaching

Head teacher with 'impossible' dreams of equitable education based on compassion, kindness and empathy - enjoying the challenge!

 North East, England
Joined December 2017
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Nailed it - what a terrible state we're in: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
If you think absent pupils are skiving, just try spending a day in a school | Nadeine Asbali

If you think absent pupils are skiving, just try spending a day in a school | Nadeine Asbali

Children are struggling, resources are being cut and teachers are burning out. Yet politicians blame everyone but themselves, says Nadeine Asbali

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Daughter on final teaching placement has come up against the teaching by numbers feedback and is devastated. I'm reading Botherdness by @HYWEL_ROBERTS and I need to buy another copy so she can have mine. Get through this last stage and then your bothering can truly begin, I say!
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rob kelsall@rob_kelsall1 May 2023
Solidarity with nurses taking action today to ensure that our #NHS is safe, and is there for all of us when we need it, now and for the future. #RCNStrike
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We won't give up until our profession is fairly paid, safely staffed, and patients are able to get the care they deserve. RT in solidarity with the #RCNStrike that continues today.
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rob kelsall@rob_kelsall1 May 2023
‘Fighting for their future’ - This is what @NAHTnews members will be doing as we prepare to ballot members for strike action. ⚠️ Members, please sign-up to our live on-line briefing this Thursday at 5pm. Registration details emailed to you and waiting in your inbox Pass it on.
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rob kelsall@rob_kelsall1 May 2023
Our fight will be on: 1️⃣ Pay and funding 2️⃣ Workload and well-being 3️⃣ Recruitment and retention 4️⃣ Inspection Let’s get this done. ✅
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rob kelsall (@rob_kelsall) profile picturerob kelsall@rob_kelsall1 May 2023
‘Fighting for their future’ - This is what @NAHTnews members will be doing as we prepare to ballot members for strike action. ⚠️ Members, please sign-up to our live on-line briefing this Thursday at 5pm. Registration details emailed to you and waiting in your inbox Pass it on.
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Solidarity to school leaders handing in their Ofsted badges. Let a trickle become a torrent. On this occasion there really is clear blue water between staying in and getting out. Being part of the Ofsted machine only muddies the water.
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Tes magazine@tes29 Apr 2023
A call on heads to halt work as inspectors until the teacher pay dispute is resolved has been backed at the @NAHTnews conference today, following an emotional speech from late headteacher Ruth Perry's sister calling on school leader inspectors to quit tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Ofsted crisis: Heads back call to halt inspector work

NAHT union calls on heads to withdraw from Ofsted inspection work until pay dispute is resolved as Ruth Perry’s sister urges school leaders to ‘hand in their inspector badges’

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Sister of Ruth Perry urges headteachers to resist Ofsted ‘culture of fear’

Sister of Ruth Perry urges headteachers to resist Ofsted ‘culture of fear’

Julia Waters criticises ‘fatally destructive’ inspections and calls on school leaders to refuse to cooperate with watchdog

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Flora@FloraSCooper29 Apr 2023
The strength of feeling @naht is tangible. It's my first time at conference & so glad I have come-I'm so heartened & hopeful for the change that will come-so thankful for these great leaders. We are so powerful when we bring our voices together! Change Is Coming. #ShineOn
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rob kelsall@rob_kelsall29 Apr 2023
Wow. School Leaders who are serving @ofsted Inspectors resigning in front of our very eyes!
rob kelsall (@rob_kelsall) profile picturerob kelsall@rob_kelsall29 Apr 2023
Delegates in the room give rapturous applause to this call. Some current inspectors in the hall, already confirming that they’ll be doing that on the basis of the call from Julia.
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Striking teachers are not sabotaging today’s education; they’re saving tomorrow’s.
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Julia Waters calls on Ofsted inspectors: "Hand in your badges" - don't be complicit in a failed and harmful system. #NAHTConf
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Simon Kidwell@simonkidwell28 Apr 2023
Put Ofsted back in its box, head teachers’ union urges schools ⁦@NAHTnews⁩ thetimes.co.uk/article/c2e12…
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Replying to @bphillipsonMP
@bphillipsonMP is right. There is a recruitment and retention crisis. On current applications the govt will miss its secondary teacher training target by 50 per cent this year. It’s just not sustainable. We are running out of teachers!
branwen jeffreys (@branwenjeffreys) profile picturebranwen jeffreys@branwenjeffreys29 Apr 2023
On @BBCr4today @bphillipsonMP says there is a real recruitment crisis - 1 in 4 physics classes - 1 in 10 maths classes taught by non specialists
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John Roberts@JohnGRoberts29 Apr 2023
Prof Julia Waters speech then moves on to what heads can do. She echoes @simonkidwell's call to take down Ofsted banners and says to those working for Ofsted as inspectors. "Please hand in your badges". She receives a long and loud standing ovation from heads. #NAHTConf
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Tes magazine@tes28 Apr 2023
Unions @NAHTnews, @NEUnion, @ASCL_UK and @NASUWT will coordinate future strikes in ‘an unprecedented show of solidarity’. @GillianKeegan has ‘united the teaching profession in its determination to not accept the poor offer currently on the table' tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
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rob kelsall@rob_kelsall28 Apr 2023
A picture paints a thousand words. Solidarity ⁦⁦⁦ ⁦@NAHTnews⁩ ⁦@NEUnion⁩ ⁦@NASUWT⁩ ⁦@ASCL_UK⁩
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Chris Gaffiney@cgaffiney29 Apr 2023
Powerful and profound speech from Professor Julia Walters @NAHTnews conference. Thank you from all at #NAHTConf
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I won't give up until Ofsted is radically reformed. So please stand up for Ruth, stand up for yourselves - taken down your banners, hand in your badges, Ofsted must be reformed Julia Waters tells headteachers - everyone is on their feet applauding her speech
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Simon Smith@smithsmm29 Apr 2023
Speaking truth to power. Professor Julia Waters (the sister of #RuthPerryRIP) speaks out. Heartbreaking, emotional and honest. Ofsted damages lives. It needs change “Things must be done differently” “We deserve urgent and meaningful change” #NAHTconf @NAHTnews
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