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Education News, Insights & Advice

Insights and advice on Supply and Recruitment, perspectives into Teacher Stress and Workload, Teacher Voice and a whole lot more…

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Why 87% of Staff Absences Aren’t Emergencies — And What That Means for Your School

Why Norfolk’s Supply Register Works — And How Your MAT or LA’s Can Too

Navigating the Procurement Act 2023: How UK Schools Can Adapt Their Temporary Staffing Approach

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Supply Teaching: Tips and Success Strategies

How do different supply and recruitment models stack up? From in‑house Supply Pools to agency provision and traditional recruitment advertising, we’ll explore the strengths and challenges of each — and dive deep into practical strategies MATs can use to ensure supply and recruitment success.

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In this series we dive deep into data from over 100,000 supply jobs booked through Teacher Booker. We’ll reveal data-driven best practices, trends, and insights that empower you to run a first-rate supply service. Discover actionable analyses and strategies drawn from real-world booking data and set your organisation up for success.

Supply and Recruitment Insights

Why Norfolk’s Supply Register Works — And How Your MAT or LA’s Can Too

Navigating the Procurement Act 2023: How UK Schools Can Adapt Their Temporary Staffing Approach

Whitepaper: The Need for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) in State-Maintained Schools and decentralised MATs in the UK

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Teacher Stress & Workload

Teaching in Lockdown – 10 Things You Never Expected to Hear, Say or Do as a Teacher!

5 Ways Schools can Improve Staff Recruitment and Retention through making Teachers’ Wellbeing a Priority

An Educator for All Seasons: Are we expecting too much from our teachers?

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All Articles

Why 87% of Staff Absences Aren’t Emergencies — And What That Means for Your School

Why Norfolk’s Supply Register Works — And How Your MAT or LA’s Can Too

Navigating the Procurement Act 2023: How UK Schools Can Adapt Their Temporary Staffing Approach

Whitepaper: The Need for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) in State-Maintained Schools and decentralised MATs in the UK

INMAT: Case Study for the Centralisation of Supply

Glasgow City Council Teacher Booker Implementation & Results

Teacher Booker to Provide Supply Staffing Platform to the Welsh Government

Why adopting a Supply Pool for agency and temporary staff transforms SEN schools

Teacher Booker Appointed to Crescent Purchasing Consortium’s (CPC) Temporary and Permanent Staffing Framework

What is the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework, and how does it help me?

Teacher Booker Awarded a Place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Supply Teachers and Temporary Staffing Framework

Reforming the Treatment and Engagement of Temporary Workers in Schools

The Biggest Challenge in Recruiting Staff as a Secondary School Head Teacher

Paid to Scale – What’s behind the numbers?

Supply Teacher Pay Breakdown – Are You Being Paid to Scale?

Sports Day – How can we help everyone feel included?

Technology Based Supply Services – How the Education Sector can Adapt and Change

Teaching in Lockdown – 10 Things You Never Expected to Hear, Say or Do as a Teacher!

Demonstrating Social Value by Ensuring School Support Staff are Paid the Living Wage

Sensory Stories – Why are they so awesome?

The Fun with Food Programme – how to establish a fun food ladder that is student led

Attention Autism – Are we offering an irresistible invitation to learn?

SCERTS Model for children with autism made easy!

PECs – The six steps and how to make it fun

Teacher Booker to Support Supply Teacher Management across Scotland

Homeschooling: how to ensure maximum engagement for your child

How teachers are keeping the Christmas Magic alive

How to lead your school through uncertainty this school year

Strategic Leadership for Schools: Maintaining Safe Staffing Levels through Workforce Management and Talent Planning

What the coronavirus pandemic will mean for school recruitment this year

Now is the Time to Return to Local Supply Teacher Pools

For Schools: Supporting Supply Teachers During Coronavirus

Supply Teacher Furlough Pay During Coronavirus

How to improve your supply teaching pay by 25% at no extra cost to the schools you regularly work in

Why is a school recruitment company trying to help schools spend less on recruitment?

Agency Supply Teacher Pay: Deciphering the Deductions

Supply Teacher Agencies and Finder’s Fees – A Textbook Case

The Retention Crisis – Nine things we learned at the Schools and Academies Show 2019

The Government Recruitment and Retention Strategy for Teachers: Seven Key Observations

How to save a lot of money on long-term agency staff – and pay teachers more

Flexible Working for Teachers – what we learned from LKMco, WomenEd, Flexible Teacher Talent and other experts.

The ‘Part-Time Teaching’ Panacea: Problems and Prospects of a cure for the recruitment and retention crisis

Labour Party call for an alternative to education recruitment agencies. Teacher Booker is that alternative.

What’s the Best Gift You Can Get Your Teacher? The Answer is Surprisingly Cheap…

5 Ways Schools can Improve Staff Recruitment and Retention through making Teachers’ Wellbeing a Priority

The Slow Death of School Funding: 2 Ways to Survive Through Innovating Your Recruitment Strategies

When in Brum: How ResearchED is Changing Teaching

An Educator for All Seasons: Are we expecting too much from our teachers?

Breaking the Silence on Behaviour Management – The Real Reason for Teacher Stress

The Stress Epidemic: A Mission Statement

Stupid things people say about Stress: A Defence Manual for Teachers

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone – Retaining teachers as a solution to the Recruitment Crisis

Behaviour Expert Tom Bennett’s Top Tips for Supply Teachers

Should Schools Ban End Of Term Videos?

Teacher Toolkit, We Stand With You.

Tom Bennett’s 6 Tips for How SLT Can Support Supply Staff

MATs Summit 2017 – Collaborate, Innovate, Accelerate

Three Things Most People Don’t Grasp about Growth Mindset

Want to understand Teacher Recruitment? Speak to Professor John Howson

EdTech – Probing beyond the Portmanteau

NQTs: 10 Tips for Smashing your Induction Year (Part 2)

NQTs: 10 Tips for smashing your induction year (Part 1)

A Guide for Teachers: Getting Your Ducks in a Row

How can we change the status quo together?

5 reasons why education recruitment is broken and how to fix it

The Trials and Tribulations of the Supply Teacher: Episode 1