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Filling the leaky bucket: Teacher workload and wellbeing in Tennessee

The United States is experiencing a shortage of teachers, and the issue is amplified among those who serve vulnerable student populations (see for example Brunsting et al., 2023). In response,...

Teacher workload in Scotland: Challenges to sustainability

This blog post examines influences on teacher wellbeing and professional sustainability in Scotland’s education system. The Teacher Workload Research Project (Hulme et al., 2024), funded by...

‘Parents are clients and students are the product’: Secondary English teachers’ workload as moral injury

Teacher workload and its contribution to insufficient recruitment and retention is a prominent theme in recent research on teachers’ work (Heffernan et al., 2022; Stacey et al., 2024). In...

Interest in leading schools has nosedived in Scotland: What can we do about it?

This blog post shares findings from an annual online survey of members of the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) (Dempster, 2024) regarding school leaders’ working hours,...

The complex pressures facing primary and post-primary School Leaders in Ireland

In this blog post we examine how administrative burdens combine with emotional and cognitive demands to affect school leader wellbeing in Ireland. High levels of stress and attrition among...

Christine Jack

Victoria Cook

Yi Zhao

New Chair and Members Appointed to the British Curriculum Forum Steering Group

We are delighted to announce the appointment of several new members to the British Curriculum Forum (BCF), including a new Chair, Grace Healy. Grace Healy brings extensive experience in...

Dawn Mannay

Marina Orsini-Jones

Carlos Alberto Hildeblando Junior