Life-friendly schools

This session will outline of the current recruitment and retention landscape. Explore why are we losing so many mid-career teachers. Provide insight into research findings exclusive to The MTPT Project. Explore what “life friendly” means, and how “life friendly” schools can attract and retain teachers and leaders. There will be references to interactive case studies, using life friendly leadership strategies to explore new approaches to teacher wellbeing and retention.

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Emma is the Founder of The MTPT Project, the UK’s charity for parent-teachers.  A 2010 Teach First ambassador, Emma worked as an English Teacher, Lead Practitioner and ITT Lead in schools in Hertfordshire, Vietnam and London for twelve years before retraining as a coach.  Emma now coaches and runs The MTPT Project full time.  She is the UK’s expert in the motherhood penalty in education, and how this impacts wider issues such as retention, staff wellbeing and gender equality in our schools.