A guest post by @Vivgrant. Throughout most of last year it seemed that the whole of the Education sector was on high alert. There were numerous reports about the impact of the teacher recruitment and retention crisis and the number of School Leaders set to the leave the profession; with media outlets suggesting that English Schools may […]
With the inaugural TeachWellFest bursting onto the eduwellbeing scene (yes, I did just make that word up) on the 30th of June, we asked founder Georgia Holleran (@TeachersMHaW) these three questions – What’s your; Best wellbeing decision? Only ever work part time on other people’s projects and full time on my own. Top wellbeing strategy? […]
A guest post by @viewthrudifeyes We moan a lot as a profession. And, though at times warranted, it doesn’t do us any favours for all sorts of reasons. Yes – managing behaviour can be hard; yes – the pay often doesn’t reflect the hours worked and yes there are lots of bits of our job which […]
We recently grabbed the chance to chat with the inspirational Jill Berry about wellbeing, communication and social media! 1 – How do you look after your own wellbeing? I know it’s challenging, but I’ve always been good at putting things into compartments and carving out time for myself, even when I was a head (which […]
Early bird tickets have gone on sale for TeachWellFest 2018! Click the picture to find out more and grab your ticket! Confirmed speakers include; Sam Collins @samschoolstuff Georgia Holleran @TeachersMHaW Dr Emma Kell @thosethatcan Vic Goddard @vicgoddard Professor Jonathan Glazzard @j_glazzard Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23 With more to be announced soon… Share this
A guest post by @CeriStokes. SLT and Inspections are often seen as the cause of low wellbeing in schools. Well if you read Twitter, then that is how it seems. And whilst I see that this can sometimes be the case, if we actually want things to change and to address staff wellbeing, then we have […]
I never meant to be a blogger. The vision for Schoolwell was for it to be a directory of school wellbeing. Once it began however, it was obvious that to get traffic you have to get new content. All the time. So, I began blogging myself and as well as begging and borrowing blog posts […]
We love talking to authors at Schoolwell, so we were thrilled to be able to ask Jamie Thom @teachgratitude1 a few questions about wellbeing in general and Slow Teaching in particular… How did your book come about? In February last year I came across Carl Honore’s excellent TED talk and bought his book ‘In Praise of […]
Ever feel like you’re rushing headlong through your working day? Constantly compromising? Marking into the early hours? In his new book Jamie Thom @teachgratitude1 argues that we can all achieve more by doing less. Drawing on popular psychology and the latest educational thinking, he sets out a manifesto for an altogether more considered approach to […]
