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The school escape room: Protecting staff wellbeing and ditching your to-do list

Workload Staff wellbeing
The key to achieving a healthy work/life balance is accepting that the job is never done. Josephine Smith suggests that we ditch our never-ending to-do lists and instead look upon school as an escape room challenge...
Never-ending: One key to staff wellbeing in schools is to accept that the job is never done and to ditch that never-ending to-do list - Adobe Stock

I am a bit of an evangelist about practical steps we can take ourselves in school to make the job seem not only manageable but – dare I say it – enjoyable.

Any reader who has listened to the recent episode of the SecEd Podcast focused on workload reduction, which I took part in, will testify to my passion for this topic.

Once we all accept that the job of educating young people will never be or feel “done” – and that there will always be other tasks we can do if we choose to – then we can start to let go of the idea that teaching is a tediously long to-do list of jobs that we never get to the end of, and which causes us to work until 10pm every night and which destroys our weekends and holidays.

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