Welcome to the
Teach Well Alliance Website
Steve Waters
Founder and CEO: Teach Well Alliance
Ofsted Inspection Framework
Sept 2019 Onwards
For the first time since Ofsted was formed in 1992, teacher wellbeing is included in the final judgement.
How would your school fare in relation to reducing workload, improving staff wellbeing and
preventing staff bullying and harassment?
Leadership and Management
Education Inspection Framework
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Section 29. Inspectors will make a judgement on the effectiveness of leadership and management by evaluating the extent to which:
Leaders engage with their staff and are aware and take account of the main pressures on them. They are realistic and constructive in the way that they manage staff, including their workload.
Leaders protect their staff from bullying and harassment.
Leadership and Management
School Inspection Handbook
Outstanding Leadership and Management
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Page 77. Section 277.
In order for the leadership and management of a school to be judged outstanding, it must meet all the good criteria securely and consistently, and it must also meet the additional outstanding criteria (below):
Outstanding
..Leaders ensure that highly effective and meaningful engagement takes place with staff at all levels and that issues are identified. When issues are identified, in particular about workload, they are consistently dealt with appropriately and quickly.
Staff consistently report high levels of support for well-being issues.
Waters Index of Leadership Support for Teachers’ Wellbeing and Mental Health
If your school were to be assessed in an Ofsted inspection on the Waters Index alone, our opinion is that:
We would score 3 or 4 which would be 'Good' or 'Outstanding'
We would score 1 which would be 'Requires Improvement'
We would score -2 or -1 which would be 'Inadequate'
Please note: This is NOT Ofsted's official position.
It is a view expressed by the Teach Well Alliance.
It is based on an interpretation of the statements in the Inspection Handbook
on workload, well-being, bullying and harassment
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Solving the education crisis
We believe that the only way to tackle the education crisis is to implement
a culture of whole-school staff wellbeing and mental health.
The Teach Well Toolkit, our flagship programme, supports your school every step of the way to reduce teachers' workload and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
To find out more , go to https://www.teachwellalliance.com/teach-well-toolkit.
You can also see a sample of the documents in the Teach Well Toolkit at https://www.teachwelltoolkitsample.com
'I look forward to working with you and your school'.
Steve Waters
