Make flexible working work for you and your school

Could flexible working solve teaching’s recruitment and retention crisis and restore a better work-life balance for burned-out staff? Possibly. Yet most teachers either don’t have access to flexible arrangements or believe that teaching and flexibility are incompatible. This article covers how schools can make flexible working –such as job shares, remote planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time or reduced teaching weeks – a realistic option and hears from teachers and schools already benefiting.