Governor Wellbeing
Reading Time: 3 minutesA guest post by @JaPenn. The #ukgovchat topic on Sunday was on Governor Wellbeing & since I find myself unusually with some time to ponder then, dear reader, please indulge […]
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An Exclusive Interview with Andrew Cowley, Author of The Wellbeing Toolkit
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe caught up with Andrew Cowley, author of The Wellbeing Toolkit: Sustaining, supporting and enabling school staff, who shared his thoughts on affordable wellbeing, and not being recognised in Sainsburys […]
Finding time, space and empowerment
Reading Time: 9 minutesA guest post by @TeacherEmpower Wondering whether I was having a heart attack or a panic attack on the way in to work should have been a wake-up call. The […]
In praise of…Teaching!
Reading Time: 4 minutesA guest post from Jon of @EVCWeb. Whilst writing the last few blogs I have tried to, and probably failed to convey the condition of modern teaching as I see […]
Love is the answer
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow compassion fixed me: and how it can fix our schools. A guest post by @andy_samm. I ignored all the warning signs. The signals my mind was sending to my […]
Loo or lunch?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week I put out a Twitter poll asking if teachers had had breakfast. The results were initially surprising to me, a diehard breakfaster. I’m aware enough to know that […]
Teacher workload. We don’t all go home at 3pm
Reading Time: 8 minutesA guest post from @Framheadteacher The reason I get my hair cut at Jaff’s* on Gosforth High Street (other than the very reasonable £9 it costs me) is that the […]
Do Less DISCIPLINING Better
Reading Time: 4 minutesA guest post from @the9to5teacher. Having recently had the annual ‘settling in’ parent meeting, I was slightly surprised with how many parents asked about ‘does my child disturb the class? / […]
A more altruistic advent?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Got your advent calendar yet? What have you gone for? Dairy milk? Lego? Craft gin? What about something a little more nourishing this Advent? It’s becoming increasingly popular to […]
The system for appraising teachers is totally broken
Reading Time: 3 minutesA guest post by Bruce Greig of SchoolStaffSurveys.com. There’s something very wrong with the way teachers are appraised in England. On the one hand, every teacher reports receiving a formal appraisal. […]