Pran Patel has 15+ years of teaching experience working recently as an assistant principal. He has an interesting career in leadership; leading standards; behaviour management; professional development and curriculum. His NPQSL project was to lead whole-school coaching and as a mental health and BAME advocate, he recently featured in a documentary ‘Why teaching is making me ill’ below and ‘Black teachers are leaving the profession due to racism’. He is a self-professed ‘outward-facing leader’ and is in the process of writing a book with John Catt Publishers by the same title.
Twitter: @MrPranPatel
Website: www.theteacherist.com
TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JjRQTuzqTU
He recommends these books:
How To Be An Anti_Racist by Dr. Ibram Kendi Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
He recommends these accounts to follow: @Tchalla_Greaves @DrLynchPE @BAME_PE
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