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New school year resolutions

CPD Pedagogy Staff wellbeing
September brings with it a fresh start for teachers across the country. School leader Ben Solly offers some ideas for New Year Resolutions that will help you to be the best you can be this year.

While normally associated with January 1, for teachers New Year’s Resolutions perhaps are more appropriately made in September.

The start of a new academic year brings with it a similar sense of hope, optimism, and new beginnings for so many of us in the teaching profession.

However, like in January, the best intentions of becoming a better person are often hard to maintain and after a month or two we have usually reverted to type. Not always, but how many of you can honestly say you have stuck to a New Year’s Resolution? 

Changing behaviour is a hard thing to do. Especially when you’re so busy. And teachers are some of the busiest and stressed people there are. 

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