Teach Well Alliance

Welcome to our website! It's packed with resources to help your school to reduce your workload and improve your mental health and wellbeing.

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The Inner Child community is based on a core belief that mental health and wellbeing challenges are a normal part of our modern lives, that we can manage them with awareness and the appropriate support and kindness. Through acceptance, openness, and workplace flexibility, everyone can be healthy and continue to add huge value to their work endeavours.

There is also a company behind this community that provides executive level coaching, team and systemic coaching, physical coaching through awareness of your body being more than a vehicle for your head, psychometrics, Lego® Serious Play® tools and techniques, and much more.

Teacher Coach is the first hybrid training platform for educators and parents, generating revenue for the school district. Teacher Coach is a virtual training medium, providing personal growth and professional development through online learning, coaching and webinars. Through our innovative Learning Engagement System (LES), districts can build a custom library and even create/sell their own training.

Branded dedicated district portals, monitored through a control management system, deliver our brief learning instalments from national experts in multiple fields, supporting educators' busy schedules. Financial support from local, regional, and state sponsors helps subsidise training for the district.

Having been a senior leader in school, including four Deputy Headships in Inner London secondary schools, Trish retrained to become a professional leadership coach and now specialises in coaching leaders in education.

Trish is passionate about education and works in schools to support senior leaders in these difficult but potentially rewarding times.

Trish's experience enables her to understand the complexities of the problems brought by senior leaders to the coaching relationship. She places teachers' wellbeing at the centre of her work and the development of emotional intelligence at the heart of the school community.

Julie Silver is known as The Vitality Fairy and the author of 'Food Awakening - Nutrition for NOW'. She is a qualified nutritional therapist and stress management consultant who offers one-to-one nutrition consultations, healthy eating workshops, corporate wellness programmes and talks and workshops in various organisations. Julie has diplomas in nutrition, stress management & holistic therapies. She writes health information for many publications and blogs and she has appeared on TV & Radio inspiring others to live to their true potential.

Trainmymind, serving schools in the North West of England, can offer a whole-school approach to implementing Mindfulness.

Dr. Sheila French the founder of Trainmymind, is an experienced educator, with over 20 years experience of teaching in schools, colleges and universities. Trainmymind offers an 8-week course for training teachers and the Paws.b and .b for school pupils.

Sheila established TrainmyMind because she is passionate about individuals achieving their potential. Evidence has shown that Mindfulness can improve the wellbeing and performance of school staff (Weare, 2014). That Mindfulness training can have a positive impact in the following areas; physical health and well-being, reduced stress and improved mental health, as well as increased emotional regulation and social capacities.

Sheila has a Post Graduate Diploma in Mindfulness from Aberdeen University.; certified “Ready to Teach” Mindfulness-Based Living Courses (MBLC), and is trained to teach Workplace Mindfulness Training (WMT). Sheila is also trained to teach the prestigious Paws.b and .b curriculum to primary and secondary school children and young adults.

Infinite wellbeing offers a bespoke wellbeing service. We tailor programs to the specific needs of your staff. This may be in the form of lunch and learn sessions, challenges and 1-1 sessions. Wellbeing is so much more than eating healthy foods and exercising. Whilst these are fundamental, we take a more holistic view of health, by looking at five key areas that include Physical, Social, Career, Community, and Financial.

We help and support individuals to take responsibility for their health and empower them with the knowledge to make sustainable life changes whilst nurturing a happy, healthy and inspired workforce.

Via Vita Health are workplace wellbeing specialists founded by The Sunday Times PE teacher of the Year 2009 Caroline Sidell. At Via Vita Health Caroline dedicates her enthusiasm, commitment and professionalism to develop and deliver all aspects of workplace wellbeing across the education and corporate sectors. She and her team of professionals deliver exciting and innovative wellness programmes to motivate, re-energise, and retain employees. Services include staff surveys, workshops, training days, webinars, videos, fact sheets, a health kiosk, resilience & mental health training, targeted campaigns, a yearly wellbeing calendar, health checks and much more.

Hope Virgo inspires change and supports recovery. She presents and gives talks on mental mental health throughout the UK and internationally.

Hope’s own journey began when she was 13. Faced with a range of issues, her way of coping was to diet and exercise. This developed into clinical Anorexia. For four years, Hope managed to hide her Anorexia, keeping dark secrets from friends and family.

On 17th November 2007, Hope's world changed forever. She was admitted to a mental health hospital. Her skin was yellowing, her heart was failing. She was barely recognisable. Forced to leave her family and friends, the hospital became her home. Over the next year, at her lowest ebb, Hope faced the biggest challenge of her life. She had to find the courage to beat her anorexia. Now in her late twenties, Hope raises awareness of mental ill-health by sharing her story so that everyone knows recovery is possible.

Hope has presented her story to a wide range of organisations to raise mental health awareness. If you would like her to speak in your school or college, Hope can present to an audience, join a panel discussion or be recorded for an interview.

if you want your colleagues or students to be inspired and your organisation to play an important role in changing attitudes towards mental health, Hope's story is the place to start.

Seahorse Education Partnerships CIC is a not-for-profit positive education company committed to improving the mental health and wellbeing of whole school communities.

Our positive psychology coaching programmes, together with our accredited coaching training, support you in building wellbeing into the culture of your school and maintaining a sustainable coaching programme. We have reduced work-related stress absences by up to 79%.

Ofsted recognised our work as ‘high quality development coaching’ in a recent inspection report. Seahorse also offers a comprehensive online programme using mindfulness techniques to introduce children to resilience, self compassion, kindness and strengths in the

classroom.

Mental Wellbeing in Schools delivers workshops and one-on-one coaching to students, teachers and parents in primary and secondary schools in the Hertfordshire and Essex area. We are the only company in the country who work in education teaching a revolutionary new psychological understanding called the Inside-Out Understanding.

The fundamentals of the Inside-Out Understanding are two-fold. One, human beings only ever have experiences through their thinking, and two, every human being has innate mental health that can never be broken. Once we see what our thinking is doing, we settle back into a feeling of wellbeing.

Angela Watson is a National Board Certified Teacher with 11 years of classroom experience and 7 years experience as an instructional coach.

She had been freely sharing hundreds of articles and resources on her website The Cornerstone since 2003, but she didn’t have a comprehensive solution for teachers’ biggest problem: a lack of time and energy. She spent three years developing and refining the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek club content to create a research-based system that has already saved the sanity of thousands of teachers.

As the graphic opposite illustrates, Angela knows that most teachers work for more than 40 hours a week and doesn't claim that her Club will reduce your workload to the average working week. However, her tips and strategies will help you to cut down the hours you work.

Innovate My School is a community-driven organisation that inspires the education sector by showcasing the best in education innovation by teachers and industry experts from around the world. Innovate My School empowers teachers and school leaders to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead proactively and most importantly, feel inspired.

YouTeachMe is a video sharing platform for schools. We support teachers to improve outcomes whilst reducing your workload. Accredited by The Association for Physical Education, you can improve teaching in all subjects using your PE and Sport Premium.

The At My Best^® tools are valuable resources for schools, colleges and universities who want to promote an appreciative culture that builds on people’s strengths. The practical tools, such as the popular strengths cards and online strengths-based 360 feedback, are suitable for use with both students and staff.

Jackie Wilson is also founder of the 'Well-Being Hub for Families and Schools', currently awaiting charity status. 'I have a growing team of independent specialists supporting the emotional, physical and nutritional wellbeing of children, teens, parents & teachers initially in Nottinghamshire. We offer advice/support and help to families and schools to find the support they need'. Find out more at the Well-Being Hub's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wellbeinghubnotts/

Dr Kitty Boitnott, owner of Boitnott Coaching, LLC, helps burnt-out teachers find new careers that are as fulfilling and more fun than teaching has become. Many teachers are suffering from the pain, heartache and disillusionment of teacher burnout, and they are looking for career alternatives. As a former educator, with training as a Career Transition and Job Search Coach, Dr. Boitnott helps teachers discover their core values, passion and purpose so that they can reinvent themselves for a new career path. If you are feeling overworked and overstressed from teaching, you owe it to yourself to explore your career alternatives

Brain Cell is an online Mastermind. A Mastermind is a group with a common interest or purpose which meets to promote each member's development and help them to solve challenges. Steve Waters, the founder of the Teach Well Alliance, also founded and runs Brain Cell, an online Mastermind for School Wellbeing Leads. There are only 7 places available. Meetings take place monthly via video conferencing for an hour. If you would like to join a Brain Cell Online Mastermind to develop your school's wellbeing strategy, click here https://goo.gl/forms/fMb1IbIV1SwlQf7h2 or on the logo on the left for more information.

Our Mission Statement:

1. To give teachers a professional platform from which to be heard

2. To make the complicated simple, providing teachers with access to resources that are meaningful for any classroom

3. To provide teachers across the world, the encouragement and support they need to survive, thrive and flourish in a challenging profession

4. To promote the community by challenging policy, guidance and publications

5. To develop a forum for parents and students – written by teachers – to guide you through school life.

Our Company Aims:

1. We will continue to give content as a grassroots community of educators, where teachers can have their voices heard, share their challenges and find solutions

2. We will make ‘ready to use resources’ for busy teachers to support their professional lives and complicated, working environments

3. We will provide an incentive for all teachers who regularly blog their content on this site

4. We will promote edtech start-ups, offering them support and the chance to publish their work with us; to collaborate on ideas that shape the classroom

5. We will develop our aims and endeavour to keep standards high; to keep our integrity, publishing resources we believe in, content that is up to date and inclusive, and although we receive income from advertising, we will never promote a company’s product where there is a conflict of interest or a product that we do not believe in.

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Take a look at the people in our team, or why not write for us, get in touch or buy our book 'Mark. Plan. Teach' by Ross Morrison McGill?

Barack Obama, President of the United States of America 2009-17

Hannah Wilson, Executive Headteacher Aureus School & Aureus Primary School

Patric Ottley-O'Connor on his appointment to Essa Academy.

Patrick Ottley-O'Connor is now an Executive Principal of the Essa Academies Foundation Trust and the Director of Collaborative Leadership Ltd. He is also an Ambition School Leadership facilitator and coach.

Sir Andrew Carter: Primary Headteacher and Government Advisor: 'A crisis is out of your control. What we have is a problem': Times Educational Supplement (TES): Insight Article: 26th January, 2018.

Steve Jobs: Co-Founder of Apple

Dylan Wiliam: Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the UCL Institute of Education. Best known for his work on Assessment for Learning

'Creating a Positive School Culture' Chris Wheatley and Pete Wilkes (2012) Thinkpiece: National College of School Leadership: Click on the image of the front cover on the left to read it in full.

In this honest and 'tell it how it is' presentation to the RQT Conference, Amy Waters reflects on the highs and lows of teaching - why it can be at one and the same time the most demoralising and the most rewarding of professions, and the reasons why teachers often feel guilty. Amy also offers advice on how to manage workload and to promote a work-life balance.

Amy is also a member of the Teach Well Alliance Steering Group.

Amy Waters: Psychology/Sociology Teacher. St Aidan’s C of E High School

a.waters@staidans.co.uk

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