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    Sentiments From Educators: What’s Worked Well for Teacher Wellbeing

    A list of real sentiments from educators highlighting what’s worked well and ideas to assist in improving the wellbeing of educators. Use this as ideas for your own workplace or to guide workshops in your own context.

    Responses are themed and summarised to provide a focus and implementation ideas and why it matters.

    Author/ source: The Wellbeing Distillery

    Last updated: 12/03/2026

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    Sentiments From Educators: What’s Worked Well for Teacher Wellbeing

    This download demonstrates how schools can collect, present, and thematically analyse staff wellbeing feedback to inform meaningful action.

    It uses two simple reflective prompts:

    "Thank you for…" 

    "What about…" 

    to  capture what staff appreciate about their workplace and what they would like to see improved.

    Each set of verbatim responses is paired with a thematic analysis identifying key wellbeing drivers, including workload and time management, supportive leadership, collegiality, social connection, teacher agency and voice, and consistency of expectations.

    It includes a brief "Why it matters" reflections linking each theme to broader outcomes such as morale, trust, belonging, and burnout prevention.

    The resource serves as a practical template for school leaders seeking to gather authentic staff voice, surface actionable insights, and embed a co-created approach to wellbeing.

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