Perhaps the phrase "work-life balance" is a misnomer. Or at least it was rather too simple a term to help me to get things in c...

For a book based around the responses to a survey of around 4000 teachers which revealed that 57% wouldn't recommend teaching to a fam...

SchoolWell , a school staff wellbeing directory, asked me a few questions about wellbeing, marking, Twitter, reading and #OptimisticEd; the...

I have been known to write about, and comment upon, wellbeing (possible understatement). My interest in reducing workload - my o...

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In recent conversations with teachers I have had my eyes opened to a world of pain that some of our colleagues are being subjected to. Whils...

 Thanks to February I've racked up a fair few blog posts now and in looking back over them I can see there are definite recurring themes...

These days plugging your phone in to charge must rank up there with brushing teeth when it comes to bedtime routine. You wouldn't want...

It all started when, every week, an unemployed friend would ask me how my week had been, to which I invariably replied 'Busy!' . ...

Some might say I labour under the illusion that, as a teacher, one doesn't have to work at the weekends. Except it's not an illus...

"When's Daddy coming to my Christmas play?" asked my five year old daughter on more than one occasion. "He has to go t...