Day in the life of a teacher

My health is a concern for me. I started this account to keep myself accountable and work through my roadblocks.

I blame my teaching job. It’s left me mentally exhausted, constantly in conflict and guilty for taking time for myself.

I decided to…

Displays in your NQT vs displays ten years in.

If other jobs were like teaching…

➡️ How England lost its teachers - and how it can get them back

You won't read a better analysis of the recruitment crisis in teaching than this by tilda martin feat. Sam Freedman Jack Worth Geoff Barton Professor Mary Bousted...

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Please watch & share our half hour film- the story of #RuthPerry and the wider debate about the mental distress of headteachers and school inspections + what could be done

A letter to Channel 4 #GBBO

If you ask school staff what the biggest three issues facing education are,
you will get three completely different answers than if you ask the DFE or Gillian Keegan what they are.

And therein lies the problem.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is quoted as saying: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Certainly, a thought for today.

Will grades matter in ten years time?

Here are my thoughts that I shared with colin murray on BBC Radio 5 Live regarding whether or not “grades matter”.

You can listen again here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

A open letter to our Secretary of State.

Is education in this country what you set out for it to be?

Can you imagine talking to a parent in tears and telling them they can access CAHMS, but the waiting list is currently nearly two years?

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New report reveals two-fifths of robberies in London last year involved mobile phones, with the remaining 60% involving utilities, petrol and council tax.

So to all of you - thank you, & well done 👏 👏👏We’ll crack on with feeding hungry children, tackling the post-pandemic disadvantage gap with insufficient funding & dealing with impossibly squeezed budgets while trying to staff our classrooms with not enough teachers

How to find £30 billion to provide support to households facing mortgage debt crises taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/06/1…

Last week I was away, so this is technically slightly more than #TheWeekInTory . That’s my way of apologising for it being fucking massive.

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It's Friday. My advice: it's best to do this drunk.

Here we go...🧵

This is a really, really great explanation of the teacher pay situation.

The head of Ofsted declaring that an Ofsted inspection only impacts upon the most senior staff in schools just demonstrates that she has literally no idea how either schools or inspections operate. #BBCLauraK

The Department for Education has published its much-delayed Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders survey.

“It is disappointing but also telling that the Department for Education has kept the results of this survey under wraps for so long” - Kevin Courtney

🧵Below are its findings 👇

This is what they took from you. We used to be a proper country.

You the same DfE who went on strike in February this year over pay, pensions, jobs and redundancy terms?

Yeah, thought so.