HealthyToolkit HQ

Team of educators committed to #Wellbeing #TheWellbeingToolkit #SupportHub #TeaAndTalk |co-founders @andrew_cowley23 @Artology @Maria0Neill @MattGovernor

[HealthyToolkit HQ @HealthyToolkit]

Thank you to everyone who has bought #TheWellbeingToolkit by our cofounder @andrew_cowley23 over the last 12 months. As we plan for return, the principled approach towards staff wellbeing could be relevant if not essential. https://t.co/rL4CSTyPs6

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

Spare an hour on 14th May for a webinar on Making Mental Health a Priority in your school. https://t.co/WBstEjg1E7

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

"So Andrew, why are you and David Gary Dark standing for @greenwichgreenparty in Charlton Village and Riverside on 7th May?"

This is why! 👇

#RealHopeRealChange #GreenParty

Promoted by George Edgar for Greenwich and Bexley Green Party, PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

To mark one year since the publication of The School Mental Health Toolkit, I'm offering 3 sets of 3 wellbeing coaching sessions for free!! For leaders, teachers or other staff. Just get in touch if you're interested.

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

#AdventWellbeing Day 20&21
"Playing the Wellbeing Card" as a response to questions about accountability doesn't sit well. Wellbeing doesn't put accountability on the backburner, but can be used to support and promote it.

It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it.

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

#AdventWellbeing Day 17.

The simplest and most effective wellbeing strategy, for staff and students, is to talk and to listen.

Not talk at, talk to, but talk with.

Listen with attention. Don't interrupt, only seek clarification. Listen with empathy and without judgement.

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

Are your thoughts turning to staff and pupil wellbeing for the new term? Maybe they're finding it tough now.

The Wellbeing Trilogy now available with 30% off direct from @BloomsburyEd until Midnight on Sunday 7th December.

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

##AdventWellbeing Day 4. One measure of a school's commitment to wellbeing is how well it looks after the staff who are well as much as those who are ill; particularly at pinch points in the year like these weeks are.

More in The Wellbeing Toolkit. @BloomsburyEd

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

The Wellbeing Curriculum is 4 years old today. Amazon only has 2 left, but @BloomsburyEd has plenty.

150 lesson ideas and 10 assembly themes, plus free knowledge organisers for each chapter available from me on request.

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

Are you looking after your shock absorbers? Those colleagues who watch your back, take the knocks, look after you without you realising?

https://t.co/9rNC3Ifdhl

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

In recent days on social media I've seen HTs, SLT, teachers and parents frustrated at their workplace. OK it's the last few days, but ultimately it's about the culture in the school.

Plenty of food for thought in The Wellbeing Toolkit and The School Mental Health Toolkit.

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

The @BloomsburyEd Summer Sale is on until 11th July. 30% off all titles, including the wellbeing range. Time to spice up your CPD?

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

@mforlearning More of my thoughts contained here. 8/end

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

@mforlearning We should be aware of burnout, especially amongst our #teachers because these are the impacts. Schools have a duty of care to their staff, teachers, TAs & other staff. We cannot afford to lose good and empathetic staff. They're the future, our (grand)children's future. 7/n

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

Boundaries being set promotes autonomy @mforlearning, wards off burnout, improves workplace relationships, sets expectations and reduces stress. 5/n

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

We all have boundaries. They need respecting. Some people are good "shock absorbers" for colleagues, but they need boundaries respecting too. 4/n

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

Everyone possesses a different degree of emotional resilience. Nobody is "fragile", nobody is a "snowflake", nobody is "weak"...they are themselves. 3/n

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

Good wellbeing is based on what we can control. What we can't control is often in the hands of others, hence the need to be empathetic, understanding, supportive and developing a positive workplace culture. 2/n

[Andrew Cowley @andrew_cowley23]

A short thread about staff #wellbeing 1/n

IME too many decisions about wellbeing are based on assumption, speculation, and a false perspective. We all have things going on in our lives. Some share, some don't. It's their decision. Assuming anything is judgemental and prejudiced.

[Adrian Bethune @AdrianBethune]

Interesting article but it's a shame it ignored the great work happening in schools across the UK around defining, prioritising & measuring wellbeing. @well_schools @WhatWorksWB @BeeWellUK @AFNCCF @childrensociety all offer clear definitions and ways to improve WB in schools

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