Have a Good Life

Kat Howard is AP at the Duston School and founder of LitDrive, PD for English Teachers. She is also the author of the book “Stop Talking About Wellbeing”

• Came to teaching quite late after working in finance
• Felt lack of reward outside of education.
• How to help teachers take care of themselves.
• Approaching workload - we have a responsibility to ourselves
• Building strong relationships.
• Effective conversation and effective exchange.
• We’ve done several things to support conversation
• It’s not just the resolution of the problem.
• In schools, I don’t think email is a productive tool.
• That’s the double edged sword of our profession.
• Wellbeing is the outcome rather than the process
• Our sense of purpose is really important.
• Teachers don’t want to create their own behavior process in the classroom.
• Give teachers autonomy over things that are important.
• Curriculum design & teaching.
• Teacher guilt - but it’s for the kids!
• Teachers don’t come in to education to be mediocre.
• People tell you what you want to hear.
• How to be a transformative principal? Listen

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John Catt

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John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools.

Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.
Learn more about some of the newest titles:

• Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
• Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli
• Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley
• The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better) by Bruce Robertson
• Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A pragmatic approach to teacher workload by Kat Howard

John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves
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