Balancing Teacher Workload in School Trusts
Balancing Teacher Workload in School Trusts
Balancing Teacher Workload in School Trusts
Balancing Teacher Workload in School Trusts
Balancing Teacher Workload in School Trusts
Best-practice strategies for fostering a productive and supportive work environment
Best-practice strategies for fostering a productive and supportive work environment
Best-practice strategies for fostering a productive and supportive work environment
Best-practice strategies for fostering a productive and supportive work environment
Best-practice strategies for fostering a productive and supportive work environment
Coming soon: A best practice guide for managing staff workload in schools and trusts.
Coming soon: A best practice guide for managing staff workload in schools and trusts.
High staff workloads are not just a logistical challenge—they are a significant factor driving teacher stress, burnout, and resignation.
Recent government data shows that teacher recruitment targets continue to be missed, with more educators leaving the profession than ever before. Despite ongoing efforts to reduce workload, progress has been slow, leaving many schools and trusts struggling to maintain balance.
Our comprehensive Staff Workload Guide offers practical, proven strategies that can help. Based on national data and real-world examples from leading schools and trusts, this guide is designed to support education leaders in finding sustainable solutions to workload challenges.
What you'll find inside the guide:
- Critical National Data: Gain insights from the latest data on staff workload and wellbeing across schools and trusts in England.
- Importance of Balance: Understand the link between balanced workloads and retaining skilled teachers in an increasingly challenging educational landscape.
- Critical Challenges: Find out what challenges leaders face and how they overcome them.
- Practical Solutions: Discover successful strategies that have helped leaders reduce unnecessary admin work, streamline tasks, and boost staff satisfaction.
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High staff workloads are not just a logistical challenge—they are a significant factor driving teacher stress, burnout, and resignation.
Recent government data shows that teacher recruitment targets continue to be missed, with more educators leaving the profession than ever before. Despite ongoing efforts to reduce workload, progress has been slow, leaving many schools and trusts struggling to maintain balance.
Our comprehensive Staff Workload Guide offers practical, proven strategies that can help. Based on national data and real-world examples from leading schools and trusts, this guide is designed to support education leaders in finding sustainable solutions to workload challenges.
What you'll find inside the guide:
Critical National Data: Gain insights from the latest data on staff workload and wellbeing across schools and trusts in England.
Importance of Balance: Understand the link between balanced workloads and retaining skilled teachers in an increasingly challenging educational landscape.
Critical Challenges: Find out what challenges leaders face and how they overcome them.
Practical Solutions: Discover successful strategies that have helped leaders reduce unnecessary admin work, streamline tasks, and boost staff satisfaction.
Complete the form to sign up for your digital copy.
Introduction
We know that staff workload, particularly teacher workload, is consistently one of the lowest modules across our data set. We've also seen a strong link between workload, staff retention, and overall wellbeing.
So, we have embarked on a journey to understand what leaders can do to support their staff and balance their workload. We use our data as a launching point to dive into a conversation about what practical steps school and trust leaders are taking to combat the teacher workload crisis.
This guide on staff workload is based on the Staff Experience and Wellbeing survey national data from 2023/24. It is an essential read for leaders aiming to understand what are the practices and impact around staff workload and how top trusts and schools have addressed workload problems to see high results.
Methodology
The guide begins with insights from our staff data to contextualise the importance of a balanced workload. It also highlights the correlation between workload issues and staff retention. We use national data from the following survey in our analysis:
- Edurio Staff Experience and Wellbeing Survey comprised of over 49,000 staff responses from 2022/23 and over 144,000 staff responses from 2018/19 until 2022/23.
Furthermore, the second half of the guide draws on interviews with leaders of schools and trusts, achieving exceptional scores for workload balance in our data.
Who will find this report useful?
This comprehensive guide is a recommended read for trust and school leaders looking to better understand the critical importance of a balanced workload for staff. It gathers practical advice and success strategies for trusts looking to balance teacher workload, improve staff wellbeing, and reduce resignation.
