School staff wellbeing and neurodiversity

Catrina Lowri founded Neuroteachers to help educational settings work with their autistic and neurodivergent learners to find simple solutions for neuro -inclusive practice.Catrina is neurodivergent herself, having the dual diagnosis of dyslexia and bipolar disorder and has traits of ADHD, dyspraxia and Auditory Processing Disorder. She is a qualified special needs teacher and an experienced SENCO and advisory teacher. She uses her unique status as an expert by lived experience and a teacher with 23 year of pupil facing experience to help schools improve behaviour, attendance, and attainment amongst pupils of all neurotypes. The Neuroteachers team do this through training, mentoring, coaching and culture change in nurseries, schools, and colleges.Catrina’s particular area of research is around exclusion prevention. She has written two papers for the Good Autism Practice Journal. The first in 2018 was a case study about preventing exclusion for an autistic, ADHD boy with extreme demand avoidance.The second, publish in 2020 looked at reintegrating autistic children into school after a period of persistent absence.Catrina believes passionately in true inclusion for all. She offers schools simple, practical solutions through empowering information. Website https://www.neuroteachers.com/traininghttps://neuroteachers.com/culture-change/To read the paper on PDA and exclusion preventionsubscribepage.io/r6n0LRTo read the paper on Autism and reintegration to school after a period of persistent absencesubscribepage.io/snYaktTwitter/ X @neuroteachersTikTok @ neuroteachersThreads @ neuroteachersukInstagram @neuroteachersukFacebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/762451187641854Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrina-anne-lowri-32a7791b2/Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9_uWakdkdNem5mHBxk-YgBook a meeting Paula@neuroteachers.comIona Jackson, Head of Insights at Edurio said: “Staff wellbeing has been an ever-pressing issue due to the recruitment and retention crisis in the education sector. So, it is vital to understand the lived experience of staff working in education today as it relates to their wellbeing so that we can find solutions and provide support to enhance wellbeing across the education sector.Staff Wellbeing in Academies drew insights from a dataset created based on the Edurio Staff Experience and Wellbeing Survey consisting of more than 11,000 staff responses captured between September 2023 and March 2024. It is available to download at https://home.edurio.com/insights/staff-welbeing-in-schools-2024 “The aim of this report is to give school and trust leaders the information they need to create workplaces for their employees that support, take into account varying needs, and provide fulfilment for educating and raising future generations.”This data is used to produce national analyses and insights to drive important discussions in education.Website: www.edurio.com Twitter: @eduriocomhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/iona-jackson-7a980255/Discover more about Education on Fire🔥 https://www.educationonfire.com/🔥 Explore the podcast

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Do you feel the education system is sucking the life out of you and the pupils you serve? I think many of us wish we could click our fingers and make it fit for purpose. A place of growth with shared learning that empowers pupils to be their best selves, so they can create a world they want to inhabit now and in the future. While a magic wand or a visionary politician might sound like the answer I believe change is already happening. Educators are changing futures one conversation at a time. New technology and the environments where we learn are beginning to look different both in and out of the classroom. I hope you are seeing this first hand and are excited about what you can share with your pupils. We are having conversations, sharing organisations and communities that are supporting education in a way that you may have not experienced. Educational change will come from us all working in way that supports the best interests of each of our pupils, personalised learning. Governments and policy makers will follow when they see fully how it can be different. So let us teach, coach, mentor and create an environment that fuels every child with feedback, inspiration, resilience and empowerment. The Education on Fire community is shining the torch, so no matter where you are in the world or how you are supporting children this podcast is here for you. ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’