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Insights, case studies, and updates from the Teacher Booker team.

The Phantom Capacity Problem: What Worker Sharing Data Reveals About STEM Supply
We analyse data from 130,000+ supply bookings to reveal how to identify and address staffing pressures ahead of time, and explore what this means for your supply service.

Case Study: How DoNESC Transformed Recruitment from "A Chunk of Time" to "A Minute" with Teacher Booker

Introducing the Pressure Index: a simple signal made possible by digitising supply
We analyse data from 130,000+ supply bookings to reveal how to identify and address staffing pressures ahead of time, and explore what this means for your supply service.

How AI is Transforming Product Management Work
Iryna Milchynska offers a fresh perspective on how AI is changing the Product Manager role — and how to balance speed, strategy, and creativity in product work.

The Rise of the AI-Powered Product Engineer: What It Means for Teams, Roles, and Innovation
We analyse data from 115,000+ supply bookings to reveal how supply staff move between schools, and explore what this means for your supply service.

The Hidden Pattern in Your Supply Teaching Data: Introducing the "Shared Worker" Metric
We analyse data from 115,000+ supply bookings to reveal how supply staff move between schools, and explore what this means for your supply service.

How many supply staff does it take to run a successful supply service?
By analysing over 100,000 supply bookings, we’ve discovered something surprising: your 'A team' of supply staff doesn't need to be as big as you may think.

Why 87% of Staff Absences Aren’t Emergencies — And What That Means for Your School
By analysing over 90,000 supply bookings, we’ve discovered something surprising: only 12.6% of bookings are made for same-day cover.

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

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

How to lead your school through uncertainty this school year

What the coronavirus pandemic will mean for school recruitment this year

Now is the Time to Return to Local Supply Teacher Pools

Supply Teacher Furlough Pay During Coronavirus

For Schools: Supporting Supply Teachers 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?

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

Three Things Most People Don't Grasp about Growth Mindset

MATs Summit 2017 – Collaborate, Innovate, Accelerate

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
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