Love your TAs and they’ll Love You Back!

Love your TAs and they’ll Love You Back!

“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,...
Being an Authentic and Humane Leader

Being an Authentic and Humane Leader

“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...
What next? The Power of Options

What next? The Power of Options

“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...
Compassion as a Survival Skill

Compassion as a Survival Skill

“People can spend their lives with an emotional bully in their head, constantly undermining them, constantly putting them down, constantly judging themselves, and then they wonder why they’re depressed!” Paul Gilbert is a Professor of Clinical...
Creating Everyday Magic with Julie Hurst

Creating Everyday Magic with Julie Hurst

“I teach teachers to help children cope with difficult feelings. Difficult emotions can give us important messages if we’re unafraid to hear and them and feel them, without becoming utterly overwhelmed by them.”  Julie Hurst is a Positive...