Better Workload Means Better Outcomes For all

Current teaching workloads are bad for teachers; bad for schools, bad for students, bad for the profession, and bad for society.

Teachers have a right to a reasonable, equitable and achievable working life, with limited hours and the ability to leave the job on the desk at the end of the day. But for 40 years our workload has steadily increased, creeping out of the classroom and into our lives outside of work.

Think1265 was founded by two fulltime teachers in 2024, and is dedicated to helping everyone in education finally enjoy the reasonable, equitable, and achievable working life our contractual agreements say we should have.

Teaching is a hard job, but it doesn’t have to be an impossible one. Together we can fix the workload crisis.

Know your rights

Teachers already have contractual protections against excessive workload. The problem is not all teachers receive these rights in their school.

Here is a simple breakdown of the core rights you have over workload.

Directed Time Budgets

Since 1987 the key mechanism to ensure teachers’ workload is managed properly is the Directed Time Budget.

This page tells you how your DTB should work, along with some tools to help you sort your DTB out.

Tools and Resources

We have developed a number of tools and resources which can help teachers to manage their workload properly. Our shop contains both free and paid resources to help teachers build the reasonable and fair workload we all deserve.