Is this Britain’s most influential teaching guru?

Blogger and ‘edupreneur’ Ross Morrison McGill tells Liz Lightfoot about his mission to inspire teachers – and surviving childhood sexual abuse

He’s the most popular educator on UK Twitter, with more than 200,000 followers. His blog tops a staggering 10 million readers and he’s one of the 500 most influential people in Britain, according to Debrett’s. He has also written three bestselling books on teaching and is about to publish a fourth.

Ross Morrison McGill, a former deputy headteacher, is an education entrepreneur but he is no Lord Sugar. He is not motivated by the profit margin but by a love of teaching and frustration at the way schools are being treated, especially by the organisation he will refer to only as the Grim Reaper in his latest book. “I firmly believe that Ofsted – the Grim Reaper – can and does end the careers of senior leaders. It has happened to me twice,” he explains.

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