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10 ways to support staff wellbeing and work-life balance
Find out how 3 schools reduced workload and improved work-life balance for their staff. Use their ideas to retain great people, save on recruitment and make your school a happier place.
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- Ask for staff opinions
- Consult with staff and union representatives
- Give teachers and leaders extra PPA and let them plan together
- Create a positive working environment and culture of collaboration
- Be clear on scheduling and the purpose of meetings
- Focus on ‘meaningful' marking, planning and report writing
- Value staff and allow days off for once-in-a-lifetime events
- Offer CPD and social activities
- Provide flu jabs and offer twilight training
- Distribute school improvement workload evenly between all staff
- Alcohol at staff parties
- Case study: how one 'outstanding' secondary school cut its marking workload by 75%
- Case study: how to offer flexible working to attract outstanding staff and boost retention
- Case study: save teachers 2 hours a day with strategic minimal marking
- Conquer your inbox: tips and tricks
- Flexible working: examples
- Flexible working for senior leaders
- How to create a staff mental health and wellbeing action plan
- How to escalate staff wellbeing concerns
- How to run a working group to improve staff wellbeing: case study
- How to run welfare checks for school staff
- Marking mythbuster
- New headteacher's presentation to staff
- Poll results: how to reduce your teachers' workload
- Pre-flight meeting checklist
- Rewarding staff: payments, perks and incentives
- Slash teachers' workload: what to stop doing
- Staff survey pack
- Staff wellbeing days
- Staff wellbeing: how to spot early signs of depression and anxiety
- Staff wellbeing: how to use individual action plans
- Staff wellbeing questionnaires
- Start-of-year presentations and meetings for staff
- Supporting trans staff
- Teacher workload audit tool
- What not to do with pupil performance data
- Workload: get to the heart of what's overloading your staff with 'keep, tweak or ditch'
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