by Maria Brosnan | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog
When we talk about the pressures facing school leaders, we usually focus on budgets, inspections, curriculum demands, or safeguarding. But there’s one issue that often goes unspoken: the challenge of managing support staff. Support staff are vital to the smooth...
by Maria Brosnan | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog
As a school leader, you’re used to pushing through the term. Balancing responsibilities, firefighting problems, supporting your team, and keeping everything running. But then the holidays arrive, and instead of enjoying a well-earned break, you crash. Sound familiar?...
by Maria Brosnan | Jul 23, 2021 | Podcast
“I love moaning! The only rule is – if you moan about something, you’ve got to have an idea about a better way of doing it. If you haven’t got an idea on how to make it better, then your moaning is just demoralising people, making everyone feel bad,...
by Maria Brosnan | Jul 16, 2021 | Podcast
“Every decision I made that was ill-informed meant that people were losing a little bit of faith in me.” Dan Edwards is the principal of Woodstock Primary Academy, a large primary school in the heart of Leicester City. He shares the best piece of advice he was ever...
by Maria Brosnan | Jul 9, 2021 | Podcast
“Work is somewhere I go to do something I’m good at, but it’s not who I am.”What does an ex-police office know about teacher stress? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Tom Wheelhouse founded Mightify in 2015 because he wasn’t willing to...
