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How can school leaders increase teacher morale in these difficult times? By admitting that there are problems, by seeking to change the system which created these problems and by being on their staff’s side when the crunch with governments and employers c

“At a time of great transition in our profession, many teachers appear to be at their breaking point. In my home state, a teacher recently published a letter to the editor of our largest newspaper, explaining why she is thinking of quitting her job. How can leaders increase teacher morale during a time of great change?”

Only the phrase “home state” in that blog from a High School Curriculum Leader, made me realise this was from a teacher in the USA.

Stress, burn-out and frustration are increasingly the norm among teachers across the western world, perhaps even more universally.

Even more concerning than the problem’s near-universality, was the near-universality of the facile, clichéd responses. 

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