Elaine Napier joins us from the General Teaching Council for Scotland. Elaine shares her 'not for sale' values of kindness and honesty. Elaine also helps us to understand the importance of values for early career teachers and the importance of the professional values.

This episode is a very special collaboration with Jamie Thom of the Beyond Survival podcast, a weekly podcast to inspire and motivate teachers in the exciting first few years of their careers. Each week he asks an expert guest a question designed to support new teachers to be the best version of themselves in the classroom. Jamie is also the author of four books on education, his latest came out in February 2023 and is called 'Talking To Teenagers: A guide to skilful classroom communication.'

Jamie is passionate about supporting new teachers and kindly agreed to have his final episode of season 1 shared on our podcast. In this episode, his guest expert is our co-host Sarah and the central question is about finding balance.

We chat with Kevin about the relationship between values and wellbeing. He shares his journey from a cynic (his words) to an advocate of the importance of understanding our values. Throughout the conversation, we hear how his values of hope and perseverance guide and sustain him. Kevin mentions 'November' a few times as being a hard month - he's written more about that here.

You can connect with Kevin on twitter or read his blogs here.