Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.
We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.
When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.
Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.
Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
