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Join date: Apr 4, 2025
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Rowena Hicks is an educator with over 30 years of experience across the UK, Poland, and East Africa. She has served as a classroom teacher, SENCo, and Deputy Headteacher, with a strong focus on supporting vulnerable children and those with additional needs. Drawing on her own lived experience of burnout, Rowena is passionate about equipping others with the tools to thrive in education and beyond.
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Aug 26, 2026 ∙ 2 min
The Hidden Cost of Always Saying Yes!
Discover how school and nursery leaders can set healthier boundaries, overcome guilt, ask for help and protect their wellbeing without feeling they have to be available to everyone.
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Aug 23, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Can Being Too Caring Lead to Burnout?
Caring for everyone else can come at a cost. For school and nursery leaders, compassion fatigue can quietly build when we carry everyone else's worries while neglecting our own. Recognising the signs and taking small, intentional steps can help us care for others without losing ourselves.
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Aug 12, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Are We Trapped in the Burnout Loop?
Teacher burnout rarely happens overnight. Learn how increasing workloads, constant pressure, and chronic stress create a burnout loop that impacts teachers, nursery leaders, and school leaders, and discover practical strategies to interrupt the cycle.
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