By Dr Jon Morris In recent years, we’ve seen a growing trend of reducing culture to neat, one-word slogans to sum up school culture like learning culture, power culture, strong culture, or effective culture. We’ve even seen leadership consultants and school improvement experts offering silver-bullet solutions—the one thing supposedly missing from a school’s culture. While Read More
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The Call for Compassionate Leadership
By Anne Kyle I had the job many people aspire to. An executive leadership role in education, earning over £90,000 a year. A large regional reputation. A proven record of transforming vulnerable schools, leading large teams, and changing lives… …and yet, I walked away. Not because I couldn’t do it. Not because I stopped caring. Read More
Education Support’s Teacher Wellbeing Index 2024
Positive Young Minds and The Sweary SENCo are proud to support Education Support in their work for teacher wellbeing and mental health. Here is the press release for their latest Teacher Wellbeing Index: This year’s Teacher Wellbeing Index includes new insights on the impact of pupil and parent behaviour on staff morale and wellbeing. Staff Read More
15 Teacher Money Saving Tips
Teachers often have to manage their finances carefully, as teaching can be a rewarding but financially challenging profession. If you are struggling to balance finances, remember to reach out to a trusted colleague or line manager. Here are 15 teacher money saving tips: Finally, if you are a headteacher, it might be worth finding out Read More
5 Top Tips to Support Your Staff at the End of Term (Via Nexus)
The days are hot and long, it’s not quite late enough in the term to abandon lessons for extra rounders, despite popular public belief about the end of term, you are not ‘winding down’. Instead, the timetable is as busy as ever with transitions, sports days and productions. Less structure also means more planning for Read More
Mental Health In School: Some Contentious issues!
As we enter Mental Health Week, I really want schools and staff to consider mental health in school with more depth and debate. #semh #mentalhealthweek2023 #teacher
Red Flags: A Poem For Teacher Wellbeing
My Friend John Magee (AKA The Kindness Coach) over at Kindness Matters has kindly published my poem for teacher wellbeing on his blog. For more of my writing and poems please click here. Hope you enjoy my poem for teacher wellbeing! To find out more about John and his work, please see: If you’d like Read More
A Year Out Of School: A Personal Reflection
It’s been a year… Well… it’s a year since I shut the door on the teaching career I once loved. It was not the end that I’d imagined or hoped for. Those who know me well, appreciate that this situation was the proverbial icing on the cake in what has been a rather challenging few Read More
Top 10 Tips For Mental Health
Tips for mental health boil down to a few simple things – although achieving them all when real life gets in the way is often not so simple!
Summer Rest: A School Leader’s Perspective
Summer rest is not an easy concept. Moving from intensive work to freedom can be a shock to the system. A reflection by David Rushby.