Jon Tait
Executive Director Of Education
Darlington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Tait is an education leader with over two decades of hands-on school experience and a decade in senior trust roles, now serving as Executive Director of Education at Northern Arch Learning Partnership. He has driven school improvement, professional learning and system leadership across multi-academy trusts, previously serving as Deputy CEO and Director of Education. A published author and international speaker who delivered a TED talk on the Future of Learning, Jon combines practical classroom leadership with strategic change management and a commitment to evidence-informed practice. He holds NPQH and NPQEL qualifications and has led teacher training, external school-to-school support and trust-wide quality assurance. Unusually for an education executive, Jon also contributes to open-source software maintenance—fixing bugs and enhancing plugins in the GIMP codebase—demonstrating technical curiosity and a pragmatic problem-solving approach. Outside work he remains active in sport and youth development, from semi-professional football and coaching to carrying the Olympic Torch in 2012.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Queen Elizabeth 6th Form College, DarlingtonNational Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership, National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership at Department for EducationHummersknott SchoolThe Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
plug10
plugin10
python9
c178
c118
front-end-development6
image-processing5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
GNOME/gimp
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions focused on bug fixes and minor feature enhancements within the GIMP image editor codebase. Their work involved correcting issues related to parasite lists in pygimp plugins and addressing problems in the Warp Transform Tool's animation functionality. Furthermore, the user corrected an issue in the file-pdf-save-multi plugin and addressed a UI issue with the zoom field in the statusbar. The commits demonstrate the user's understanding of the GIMP plugin architecture and its Python bindings.
gnome-shell-extensiongnomegitlabgimpread-only
GNOME/gegl
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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