We have structured the resources so that users can work through them bit-by-bit by engaging with a serious of mini course units at their own pace. You can either work through all the units in sequence or just dip into the ones that are of most interest/relevance to you.

As will be explained in detail when you enter the toolkit, the units are grouped into five layers (the 5S model):

• Self
• School
• Social
• System
• Social

The EASiER toolkit is free to use. When you enter the main body of the toolkit at the bottom of this page, you will be asked to enter your name and email address. This is so that we can gain a sense of how the toolkit is being used. We will contact you occasionally to provide updates on new content and to ask for feedback to further develop the toolkit. See here for our privacy notice which details how we will use and store your contact details.

Below are links to policy briefings and research articles reporting on key findings from the project. 

• Policy briefing note exploring the key predictors of teacher resilience, presenting key findings from the survey phase of the project. The note presents the top six predictors of wellbeing, job satisfaction and burnout, demonstrating that the question of ‘What is most important for teacher resilience?’ depends on which outcome you are focusing on. It discusses the related implications for policy, arguing for the need to move beyond the dominant teacher wellbeing discourse.
• Policy briefing note exploring how Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) shape teachers’ working lives and wellbeing, drawing on qualitative data from the ecology-mapping phase of the project. The note synthesises teachers’ accounts of five interconnected pressures through which SEND affects wellbeing. It discusses the implications for Initial Teacher Training (ITT), early career support, and the wider system, arguing for greater alignment between SEND policy and teacher wellbeing.
• Quantatitive research article reporting the pilot survey study which shaped the current large-scale project. This demonstrated the relative importance of school-level factors as predictors of teacher resilience and highlighted the key role that leadership practices, school culture and workload play in the teacher resilience process.
• Qualitative research article reporting the pilot ecology mapping study which also shaped the current project. This demonstrates that the resilience process involves interactions between different levels of the system, highlighting the need for a multi-layered systemic approach to supporting teachers to thrive.

COMING SOON! We are still in the process of writing up some of the findings of the project. Further briefings and articles will be released soon. By providing your email when you click the link below, you will automatically receive updates when new content is added. 

If you have any questions about the toolkit or the research that informed it, please get in touch with Dr Steph Ainsworth on s.ainsworth@mmu.ac.uk or Dr Jez Oldfield on j.oldfield@mmu.ac.uk. We hope you find the toolkit useful!

Click on the link below to see the menu of units available within the toolkit and to find out more about the 5S model which we have used to structure the resources.