What big ideas sit at the heart of your behaviour strategy (if you're a leader) or the way that you manage your class (if you're a teacher)?
Some to consider:
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Paul Dix's 5 pillars of practice:
1⃣ Consistent, calm adult behaviour
2⃣ First attention for best conduct
3⃣ Relentless routines
4⃣ Scripting difficult interventions
5⃣ Restorative follow-up
Rob Long's mantras:
💬 Analyse, don't personalise
💬 Calm when they get it wrong, happy when they get it right
💬Fight fire with water
💬 To change their behaviour, change your own
💬 If you can predict it, you can prevent it
💬 The problem is the problem, not the child
School and MAT leaders: What’s your school improvement model?
How do you go about improving your school?
Here’s a model and a thread explaining it…
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First some assumptions about school leadership.
▪️Schools are complex
▪️Improvement is more about problem solving than applying a ‘formula’
▪️Problem solving requires expertise
▪️(Groups of) schools therefore need to be good at building and sharing knowledge
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That last point is critical not just for the chain of reasoning above but because there can be no improvement to children’s outcomes without the individual adults, teams and the organisation as a whole learning more, better and faster.
Great session with @LouiseStoll@CEL_IOE on educational setting as learning organisations.
▪️The concept of school leaders and teachers as knowledge workers who need to find / create knowledge
▪️Schools need to learn fast because of complexity