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Many high-achieving schools, particularly in affluent areas, have a dangerously complacent attitude towards behaviour, according to this teacher, who argues that they need to follow the lead of those with more challenging catchments

One teacher pens a letter to a former colleague and admits that instead of dismissing them as boring, irrelevant and old, they should have taken the time to learn from their valuable experience

This anonymous senior leader in a primary school says staff meetings – or PDMs – need a radical overhaul

Teachers don’t need to be told to go home early or to go to yoga – to improve wellbeing they need two things: time to do the job they love and trust that they are doing it right, writes one primary teacher

Parents choosing not to send their children to this headteacher’s school, despite a glowing inspection report, has led to a lack of funding and staff cuts. Here, she worries about what will come next

After 20 years at the same school, this school leader has reached breaking point. Here, he reflects on the relentless workload and bittersweet ending to his teaching career