Best School to Work

transforming:

Teacher Wellbeing, Recruitment, and Retention

supporting

School working culture

Certify your school for its working environment and boost teacher wellbeing, recruitment and retention with independent analysis and benchmarking data

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introducing

Best school to work

Best School to Work is an evidence-based mechanism to analyse, improve and certify your school's culture and working environment. It grants access to detailed feedback, actionable insights, benchmarking data, and the marketing tools you need to put your school on the map.

Through this unique and affordably priced programme, you can build an environment in which education flourishes because educators thrive, nurturing the wellbeing of your staff to attract top talent and retain experienced teachers.

empowering

Schools through:

Wellbeing

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Using our proprietary education-focused model, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your school's working culture. Develop action plans to improve and support your staff wellbeing.

Recruitment

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Promote your school as a great employer, with our Best School to Work certification as evidence. Stand out in a competitive recruitment market with a range of marketing materials to gain national attention.

Retention

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Avoid expensive recruitment costs by retaining your team. Develop buy-in to your vision and sense of community.

why

Working culture matters

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There is a global crisis in teacher wellbeing, recruitment, and retention. Teachers are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and burnout, leading to record attrition rates and severe difficulties in attracting new educators to fill the gap. If left unchecked, this alarming trend will erode the quality of education, placing the next generation's learning in jeopardy. Urgent action is now needed to support and sustain the teaching workforce.

Blue and red 44 percent

Of K-12 workers in the US reported they "always" or "very often" feel burned out at work.

Source:
Gallup

Blue and red 44 million

Additional teachers are needed to reach universal basic education by 2030.

Source:
OECD

Blue and red 55 percent

Of all staff consider their organisation's culture has a negative effect on their wellbeing.

Source:
Education Support (Research in the UK)

our

Solution

The Best School to Work programme is a unique workplace culture solution designed in consultation with schools, for schools. Our proprietary framework, developed from extensive research, identifies and diagnoses the strengths and weaknesses of a school's working culture. Based on the principle that you can’t change what you don’t understand, the Best School to Work process acts as a critical, in-depth diagnosis tool. Additionally, we provide a wealth of resources and a thriving, supportive community.

  • Engage your school community and stakeholders:
    Show your staff and wider community that you are committed to their wellbeing and building a great working culture.
  • Undertake our bespoke Best School to Work survey:
    Allocate a two week period where all staff can complete our anonymous survey.
  • Receive detailed feedback and develop an action plan:
    Get detailed feedback and analysis from our proprietary tool including benchmarking data allowing you to develop action plans.
  • Receive your certification:
    Qualifying schools receive certification as a Best School to Work with a host of marketing materials to help you tell the world.

our

Certification

Achieving Best School to Work certification sets you up as a beacon of great school culture. Use our certifications and marketing packages to shout from the rooftops.

All Best School to Work certified schools receive:

  • A certification badge to use on all your assets and recruitment campaigns
  • A model press release to gain media coverage for your achievement
  • A pack of digital assets
  • A marketing pack full of ideas and suggestions on how to use your badge
  • A school profile on the Best School to Work website
  • Inclusion in Best School to Work annual lists
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educators' insights on

Best school to work

"Our internal surveys gave us some useful data, but Best School to Work offered an in-depth analysis of our school and what staff felt about it. The benchmarking with other schools and the confidential nature of the survey was really important to the school leadership. If you want to get beneath the surface of your school, I highly recommend Best School to Work"

-Mark Leppard MBE
Headmaster, British School Al Khubairat
United Arab Emirates

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