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A Night to Flourish – Support Flourish Mentors’ First Annual Fundraiser
On 6 March, we’re proud to attend and support our charity partner, Flourish Mentors as they host their first annual fundraiser, A Night to Flourish. Every ticket and donation moves them closer to their £10,000 goal.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health
Did you know that according to NHS 2024 data, more than one in three young women aged 16–24 live with a mental health condition—36.1%—twice the rate of their male peers? Flourish Mentors exists to respond to this urgent and often unmet need.
Our First Charity Partnership
Thank you so much to Adele Bates and your wonderful ABE community and team for welcoming Flourish Mentors as your first Charity Partner!
One Year On
Recently, I celebrated a significant anniversary. On June 5 2024, it was one year since Adele asked me to join her as Associate Trainer at Adele Bates Education. It was a hell of a day…
Embracing Differences
Guest Blogger Sue Bayley is a practitioner with a wealth of both professional and personal experience in the areas she supports; Autism Family Dynamics.
I wouldn’t go into teaching now
Why expecting things to improve with teacher and recruitment is a fool’s errand without prioritising behaviour.
Announcement!
This week I was up in London where we signed the contract for my Second Book with Sage Publishers
The Sutton Trust Report; Lessons Learnt?
The report is not all about looking in the rear view mirror. There are some key points for the future which cannot be avoided much longer.
Round Robin ABEducation 2024
It’s been a big year of change this end at ABEducation.
2025 – Same Sh*t, Different Year?
A combination of reframing how we feel with some practical advice. A new year’s message from Keith our Associate Trainer which shows what we do at ABE in a nutshell. As the tree comes down and the undesirable chocolates remain in the box let’s turn our attention to the new term.
❄️ Wintertime Book Club! ❄️
And it’s time for some cosying up by the fire, hot choc and reading…
I LOVE to do do this over the winter, it mixes some of my favourite things
I couldn’t believe it
This month a trainee teacher happened to be at the school where I was returning to deliver Part 2 on supporting Extreme Behaviour needs.
I was NOT expecting that
As usual, I’d sat down at the laptop to open the various inboxes, and was blown away to see the brilliant Kemi Oluyinka name check me as part of the catalyst that got her recently co-authored book Black in School published by Sage & Corwin.
The Darkness of November
“We know it won’t last forever and we can allow ourselves some survival mode.” In this blog Associate Trainer Keith Bates offers some key areas to consider to get us to December.
🧠 3 Myths about the Teenage Brain 🧠 – Part 3
If we build this into our education systems in a positive way,
they are less likely to turn to elsewhere
– gangs and groomers prey on teens who are looking both for new communities and new identities.
Boundaries, Routines & Discipline OR Positive Relationships?
Boundaries, Routines and Discipline
Or
Positive Relationships?
🧠 3 Myths about the Teenage Brain 🧠 – Part 2
Teens have a tendency towards novelty seeking.
This enables independence and secretes dopamine
– that feels good.
It also gives them an increased amount of courage to try new things and form new ideas. (Siegel, 2016).
🧠 3 Myths about the Teenage Brain 🧠 – Part 1
It is a disempowering myth that suggests that the phase of changed behaviour must be endured, when in reality there are many things we and the teens can do to support them to cope and thrive during this time