Damaging Impacts & Advice for WhatsApp

‘What’s the Harm? It’s Just WhatsApp!’

To those who can successfully self-regulate, indeed it is. But here are some situations that demonstrate the vulnerability of others in WhatsApp groups.

The more vulnerable colleague

For a more vulnerable member of staff, it can be the place they double-guess the words of others.

The new guy

For the NQT new to the school, it can be the place that everyone seems to know everyone except them.

The person who never says no

For the one member of staff who never says no to anything, it can be the place that they take on new projects at 11 p.m. on a Friday evening.

1Conversation & Connection

1.1Email

1.1.1Physiological Impact of Email

1.1.2Appropriate Use of Email

1.2WhatsApp

1.2.1Damaging Impacts & Advice for WhatsApp

1.3Praise & Thank-Yous

1.3.1Giving Less Praise, Better

2Being Human: Effective Relationships in Schools

2.1Dealing with Colleagues, Roles & Resolution

2.1.1Choose Your Crowd

2.1.2Changing Hats

2.1.3Resolution & Compassion

2.2Creating Professional Safety Nets

2.2.1Create Something to Belong To

2.3Educational Leaders

2.3.1Problems with Leadership in Schools

2.3.2The Qualities of the Most Effective Leaders

2.4Connections in the Classroom: Student Systems

2.4.1Behavioural Systems

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