 Hello everyone, Ross, good evening. Live video for this week, teacher wellbeing. So this comes from my research from a book, Just Great Teaching, last couple of years. So I'm only now starting to get out and about and share what I've discovered. I've got a ton of resources. Let me show you what I'm gonna share with you. So just send me a direct message. Eisenhower Matrix, sorry, bad print out here. Boston Matrix, which is new to me. A Weekend Week Planner. 10 ideas, I've been tweeting this out today for staff wellbeing. A research framework for things to improve in school. A research-informed intervention process. Again, another bad print out. The five-minute research plan I shall share. And then the poster of all the K-Study Schools, Just Great Teaching. That's to just start with. And then I'll also, I hope my publishers aren't watching, I'm gonna send you a screenshot of the K-Study School from the wellbeing section of Just Great Teaching. So that will just show you a preview. So these are the 10 chapter ideas. The ticks represent the ones that I've mapped out as CPD sessions. So I'm talking here about idea number four, teacher wellbeing. If I just show you a brief little map, these are the schools across the UK. This is a number four, Passing Streets Primary School in Bristol. So this is what I wanna talk to you about. So I've got a set of slides. I'm gonna send it all to you as a PDF and a folder. So send me a direct message. You'll get all these resources from my bank to explain the slides and the sample chapter for free. No catches. So there's a chap I, when I was struggling with my own teacher as a school leader, mental health, I watched this fantastic TED talk by a chap called Ted Nigel Marsh. And it started with this, pause for a moment and take stock of your miserable existence. If you do not define your meaning of work-life balance, someone else will define it for you. And you may just not like their idea of balance. And when I watched it, the whole TED talk, it really struck a chord with me. And I went home the same day and actually deleted all the applications that are on my mobile phone that connected me back with work. So you'll also see earlier on my tweets where I've switched and showed you a screenshot of how you can fetch your emails when you choose rather than have the default setting, which is to push, which is if I send you an email at any time of the day, it will arrive and notify you on your phone immediately. And I'm surprised how few people know about that. It's a huge workload change. And I think as a society, we have to redefine the rules that essentially the person that works the quickest, the person has the most money wins when actually we want to have people that are rewarded for being more fulfilled, more happy. So here's a thought for you. A bit of research here from Lindquist and Nor Danghe. We know that the process that causes a teacher to leave the teaching profession is something that starts a long time before they actually leave. So I want to talk about some of the cues first of all. So here's some of the kind of facts that are currently around at the moment. The spider on your shoulder. Are you tricking me here? Very good. Probably there is. Very good. You got me there. Teacher training applications are down by 5%. Teacher training targets in England have been missed for seven years in a row. Teacher salaries have declined. They're very good. Teacher salaries have declined by 10% in real terms since 2010 and the government have just admitted after 10 years of denying it that school funding was down. And actually student to teacher ratio numbers have increased one in 17. So they've risen. So costs have gone down. Class sizes have gone up. You can imagine the stresses on the teaching profession. So here's some questions for you. Could sabbaticals or incentives improve or solve the teacher retention crisis? As lots of research to say where sabbaticals or pay rises have been offered, particularly for shortage subjects, it does increase teacher retention. Now I'm not moving to the right wing, but I've just read the policy exchange think tank who have had lots of views on over the years. There are a dark think tank heavily influenced in the Department for Education. And they've actually put out on a blog today. So if you go to my website, you'll find it. Five recommendations that the think tank are making to Boris Johnson. And actually to be fair, some of them are very good ideas and one of them is to sabbaticals. So I wouldn't be surprised if sabbaticals start to happen. So first idea from me before I go into these slides. Nigel Marsh, Ted Talk, make a note. It's called How to Make Work-Life Balance Work. And for 10 minutes, it will change your life. So here are some workload things to discuss, perhaps with yourself or back at school. Do your colleagues speak politely and constructively to one another? Are you or your school leaders? I don't believe in problem solvers. I believe in problem finders. So a little shift, do people go out of their way to find problems rather than solve the ones that are already broken because if we go to find them, likely kind of stop those things happening. When asked, did you say no to something that you've been asked to do? Who do you go to when you're struggling? And what kind of plans have you got for day to day living? So I'm gonna come to that shortly and talk through those slides, so just bear with me. I'm gonna come on to the first one. Now, this is very famous from Stephen Covey, the Eisenhower Matrix. I used to have this on my school leadership office and if you go to any blog on my site called The Life of a Deputy Headteacher, you'll see where I've got screenshots or photographs of this on my office wall. And essentially, urgent and important. These are the things that you do immediately, so urgent and important. These are important but not urgent, so kind of looming deadlines. In the bottom right, we've got not important, not urgent. These things are like tied in your cupboard shelves, reading magazines or articles you wanna say for a rainy day. And in the bottom right, we've got urgent but not important. So these are sometimes things that we could delegate to others that can help. And I think that's a great methodology for it to do list. So I'll screenshot this underneath the video feed to grab and also get the PDFs. The next one's new to me. Now, some of you that maybe studied day-level business studies or have talked business studies. And again, I apologize for the screenshots here, but we've got a picture here of a question inside someone's head. And behind it, it says, the future potential is doubtful. In here, we've got a star which says rapid growth. In this image, we've got dog, which is suggesting not worth investing but low growth. And then this one's a cash cow, which creates profit but will need to be replaced. And essentially, this is a model for strategic planning. So middle-leaders, school-leaders out there. An important model for allocating resources. So I'll give you an example. Let's say it's allocating money and budget aside for professional development. Are some ideas doubtful? Will some ideas have rapid growth? Are some just a waste of time? Will some cost a bit of money initially and then need replacing but actually will increase growth and share. Now that's new to me and that's, I guess, it's a very much a business model, but I suspect that will work in many fields of school life also. So that's the Boston Matrix. In the slides that I'm also gonna give you, I've got some pictures. I don't have them here, but I've got a picture of six apples. So I want you to imagine a Granny Smith apple, a red delicious apple, maybe a pink lady and a golden delicious. And I don't know if you're familiar with Barry Schwartz, the paradox of choice. When we were presented with too many choices, it's actually more stressful and it actually leads us to make less of a better decision and we end up being less fulfilled. And again, with teacher wellbeing and I would even say with children in our schools, when we are presented with less choice. So if I say, for example, you can have a Granny Smith, the green apple or a red delicious apple. Between those two choices, there's less stress. So something to consider. So again, the slides read through that. I don't have a screenshot with me to show you. Next idea is this. Now we're all busy people, all of us, you and me. But here's a little grid. Do you plan to do things away from work? Now it's really simple, but you've got Monday to Sunday there. We all need to have a gym day. We all need a day to go home. That's typically Friday or we'll go to the pub or whatever it would be. But do you have a regular methodology? Sometimes just by signing up to something on one night after school forces you to go. Now I know parents' evenings and those things get in the way. I'm gonna share the slides on a link underneath the video or if you send me a direct message, I'll send you a link to the slides after. But sometimes just diorising this to new teachers watching, sometimes just writing this down is sufficient. Ideas to help you switch off. Now, next idea, this is probably my favourite. Staff wellbeing policy. Here's 10 ideas. Now I put this on a Twitter screenshot earlier. There is tons of stuff on here. So let me just read some out. No written lesson plans of any kind. No pressure to put on show lessons. No cover duty for more than one lesson every half-term. So six covers a year. No written reports. Marking is for students only, not for all our school leaders or inspectors. Data is entered only once. CPD is delivered in twilight, finishes at 4.15 with days off in lieu. And CPD on managing stress is provided with the message that keeping yourself busy is not a sign of strength. And the final one, open door senior leadership. This is a real school wellbeing policy and actually they've got a list of 47 things that I've seen, living and breathing. There is another one that you'll be able to get in the book also. What else can I share with you? Let's see, let's see. I'll go to, this is the research development practitioner framework from the Open University. If you see at the top it says working as a researcher. Number two, developing ways of thinking. And number three, moving on with research. And this is a great methodology for tackling action research, but particularly research for teacher wellbeing and starting to develop and think like a researcher in your school. To support this, you've also got this simple what, who, what, when, where, how, and what next methodology for research-informed interventions with some simple questions to ask. So, whatever you choose, dual coding, retrieval practice, managing behavior, lesson planning. It's a nice little framework to think through with somebody in a team. You wanna take it further. You've got the five minute research plan. Now, this is badly printed. The five minute research plan, you've got a nice research inquiry framework to take it a bit more deeper for MPQML, for MPQSL, for MA projects. And again, this is broadening line with a five minute methodology. And another great way to think about taking ideas to get your staff or yourself more engaged in research. Instead of following all these fads, there's no research, for example, on the purple pen of progress. Does it work? What impact does it have? But yet we choose to follow that simple idea in a profession that's obsessed by research and evidence. This link here, you can grab it now if you want bit.ly forward slash capital JGT underscore poster, not underscore, sorry, lowercase. You grab the poster from the 10 case study schools that are researched in just great teaching. Now, after this video, semi-direct message or I'll pin the link under the slide, under the video, you'll get all the resources and the slides that I haven't really talked through because I'm sharing the video, all these handouts and I'm gonna screenshot, let me see what page it is, the school case study of a school in Bristol, page 93, of this case study school where you can read a bit more about how this school has gone through the same challenges, the same successes and what people can do to adapt some of the content in their own ideas. Let me see if I haven't missed anything. Feel free to post some questions. Now, in the slides I'm also gonna give you is some top tips for rethinking marking, some top tips for rethinking meetings and what else is in there? And it's a bit of research and I've signposted something about presenteeism which is about being at work even when you're ill and you really should be at home. Two websites, the health and safety executive website which has got a great talking toolkit for teaching wellbeing for your whole school, not just for yourself. And then Education Support Partnership which is a free confidential help line for all teachers to call 24 hours a day which will provide you with practice, emotional support for stress, anxiety, money worries, bereavement, all sorts of things and they're a welcome addition to our profession and I think that's a phone number that should be on every staff room in the country across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Right, I'm gonna stop there. Loads of ideas. I went to Belgium this week as well as the school in Preston. Fantastic stuff that I saw. Shape International School in particular. Nine schools, 11 nations all on one site. So I'm gonna blog about that tomorrow night but you'll have seen some of the images on my channel. Also Preston where I went to go and visit and share some ideas from just great teaching. A great school, Archbishop Temple, thank you. Tomorrow I'm off to Wandsworth to visit Abermil Primary School to talk about teacher wellbeing, this content. Then to Cardinal Newman and Newman and Luton to talk about the plan, content from Mark Plant Teach. Mark Plant Teach 2.0 coming out in September. And then I've actually got quite a few interesting podcasts. One with Kirstie Williams who's the Education Secretary of State for Wales. So I'm gonna try and see if I can make interviewing Education Secretary of States, one of the things in my podcast channel. Another thing, I posted something on Brexit over whenever it was, Friday or Saturday. I think it was Saturday morning when we had left. It's 19 hours. And my God wasn't that controversial. I'm a Romainer. I live in London. I've got mixed views on my Scottish by birth. So I've got views on independence and all sorts of things, but without getting too political. There are teachers in England who are conservative and who have voted for Brexit. And when you raise the topic on social media, people are attacked. And I've had my bias too, but I think now I've physically met people on the road on my travels. It's quite a small audience, particularly for the teaching profession, Tories, pro-Brexit, those types of things. I'm not, but I think it's important to talk about it. And it's just a bit disappointing to be attacked by fellow colleagues for sharing those views, for something that I actually disagree with myself, but I take the flag, but that's what you do when you have a large audience on social media. Anyway, have a great evening. Ideas in the book, I've got seven or eight hand backs for you here, I'm gonna send a link to you now. And the screenshots from the case study of just great teaching on teacher wellbeing, look after yourself because you have to, because if no one else does, or who looks after you is the question I've got for you. And how do you spot the cues when you're struggling? There's probably a tougher one to answer for us all. We all have mental health, we all need to manage it. And I think we should do more in our schools, particularly to support teachers' needs and profession, but to keep experienced teachers in the profession longer. I'm gonna stop on waffling. Thanks for all the comments and I'll shall see you next, this time next week.