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What do you have that you didn’t earn?
One of the questions we contemplated today at the International School of Toulouse conference attended by schools from across France and beyond.
These Cushions Say It All
I am currently working in Toulouse, I will be leading a keynote on Equality and Inclusion and workshop at the International School of Toulouse tomorrow.
Have you tried the obvious approach to improving behaviour?
What have you tried in your classroom or across your school to improve behaviour consistently and sustainably for staff? How’s it going? This blog shares the actually-quite-obvious- approach that may have slipped you by.
How Could Ofsted Inspect Inclusion?
There are equal amounts of anticipation and trepidation about developments happening around Ofsted. As well as the removal of a single overall grading, the announcement of a ‘scorecard’ type system has made us all wonder what that will look like. And inclusion will be one of the criterion by the looks of it. But how do you inspect and judge inclusion? In this piece, Associate Trainer and former Headteacher puts his thoughts forward.
FREE Behaviour Boosts!
At this time of year, I love to offer our community a FREEBIE – A Behaviour Boost!
Consider it your ginger-celery-kale-broccoli morning pick-you-up for behaviour
If there was a honeymoon, it’s over by now
The dip was always going to come.
It was a question of when.
However, by drip feeding our values, our purpose and giving us all a periodic breather, we can keep shining even in the darkest days. This post shares four key ideas to get you through the behaviour honeymoon phase…
Who is losing learning?
We know children with SEN or from certain socio-economic or ethnic communities are disproportionately suspended or excluded. However, other figures in the report remain eye watering.
The New Realities
“In his second blog for school leaders, our New Associate Trainer Keith Bates outlines 3 surprising key areas that will enhance the start to your academic year, and beyond.”
Endings and beginnings
At the end of the school year there are transitions all around. This poignant piece from Keith Bates; Senior Leader of 20 years shares a touching insight into Headship, and invites us to reflect on our own end of year journey
My process that helps schools shift their behaviour culture
With the realistic picture and the direction, we start equipping staff, parents and carers, the school community with training on a variety of Behaviour, Inclusion & Wellbeing topics.
One thing you can do today
I often teach on Psychologist Kim Golding CBE’s approach of
‘Connection before Correction’ – as an evidenced positive way to build relationships with ‘harder to reach’ pupils.
Who I WILLL work with
You know that working with/on yourselves /mindset is as important as what you do in the schools because you understand the neuroscience
I won’t work with you
Working with me is NOT a good fit for your school if:
The Big Behaviour Problems
Behaviour is becoming an increasingly large (expensive, life-downward-spiral-altering) problem in the UK, and gets in the way of learning
The most effective thing
The most effective thing to focus on, to improve behaviour…
4,000 schools are running a foodbank
Children up to Year 3 are eligible for Free School Meals. After that, if the household has a net income over £7,400, they do not receive help.
That’s not the case.
Experiencing any of this?
You have a choice: 1. Keep calm and carry on 2. Dare to get to the root causes of the issues and take steps towards sustainable behaviour improvement and a (re-)focus on learning for all. Are you ready?
75% of people working in the British Education System are women
There’s a whole miriad of reasons, systemic and individual biases, conscious and unconscious and add to that another protected characteristic – POC, disabled, LGBTQ+ and the statistic of representation in expert or managerial positions goes down again.