‘Making sure that people are in a good place is draining, and nobody does that for me’: The pandemic and its ongoing impact on teachers and headteachers Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez a* , Silke Fricke a , Elena Lisauskaite b , Jo Hutchinson c , Claudine Bowyer-Crane a a University of Sheffield, UK; b University of Portsmouth, UK; c Education Policy Institute, UK This is a preprint and has not been peer reviewed yet Contact information: *Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez, University of Sheffield, School of Education, Edgar Allen House, 241 Glossop Rd, Sheffield, S10 2GW, c.zuniga-montanez@sheffield.ac.uk Silke Fricke, University of Sheffield, Division of Human Communication Sciences, Health Sciences School, 362 Mushroom Lane, Sheffield, S10 2TS, s.fricke@sheffield.ac.uk Elena Lisauskaite, University of Portsmouth, Faculty of Business & Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Portsmouth, PO1 2UP, Elena.Lisauskaite@port.ac.uk Jo Hutchinson, Education Policy Institute, 150 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9TR, jo.hutchinson@epi.org.uk Claudine Bowyer-Crane, University of Sheffield, School of Education, Edgar Allen House, 241 Glossop Rd, Sheffield, S10 2GW, c.a.bowyer-crane@sheffield.ac.uk *Corresponding author Authors note: Data was collected while Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez and Claudine Bowyer-Crane were based at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)