This week's episode deals with one of the most pressing topic in education: teacher wellbeing. You can hear how both a research paper presented by Dr Bronwen Maxwell (Sheffield Institute of Education) and a case study from Woodland Academy Trust draw very similar conclusions on what is the best way forward. 

Wellbeing as Entitlement - Supporting Staff Wellbeing the WAT way

• Not just workload – improving the culture of support in your school
• The importance of adapting to greater working flexibility, such as ‘wellbeing days’
• Addressing staff retention, particularly why 40% of NQTs don’t make it through the first 5 year

Dan Morrow, CEO, Woodland Academy Trust 

Schools as Great Places to Work: Promoting Early-Career Teacher Wellbeing

A copy of the article Supporting and inhibiting the well-being of early career secondary school teachers: extending self-determination theory written by Prof Andrew J Hobson (Education Research Centre, University of Brighton) and Dr Bronwen Maxwell, can be found at this link http://shura.shu.ac.uk/13860/4/Maxwell%20-%20supporting%20and%20inhibiting%20the%20well-being%20of%20early.pdf

Dr Bronwen Maxwell, Head of Commissioned Research and Deputy Head of Centre for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Sheffield Institute of Education 

These sessions were recorded live on 13th November 2019, in the Recruitment & Workforce Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.