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Salus Populi Suprema Lex: service and disservice

21 August 2020
Service and disservice in leadership

Kindness in schools - Mental Health Awareness Week

18 May 2020
Structured kindness of Solutions Focused Coaching in Mental Health Awareness Week

The 5% - working from strength and coping with change

4 May 2020
Children can cope with change when we focus on their strengths, not their failings.

New for 2020 - Solutions Focused Coaching in schools

4 January 2020
Solutions Focused Coaching in schools  - new for 2020  January 2020 As children return to school after the winter break, the experiences they carry with them will span the range from the ideal family get-together to something far away from that. For some children it won't have been the best time in their life and […]

Action against exclusion; finding the balance between discipline and care in schools

11 December 2019
Understanding the meaning of stress is the key to preventing exclusion

Going round in circles

22 November 2019

Spare the rod?

18 September 2019

All you need is love

11 September 2019

Still, small voice of calm

5 September 2019
The next few weeks will be a testing time for children moving class and moving schools. Most of them, from toddlers to teens, will come through it by finding themselves and their place, and settling into their relationships with people around them. They can look back at their summer holidays with happy memories, refreshed and […]

Reconnecting behaviour and learning

23 June 2019
Discipline and authority in schools – a bumpy ride?  When is enough enough and when is it too much? When practices run counter to what we know from recent research evidence on educating children with individual needs, differences and diversity, we need to look closely at what’s going on. From Jonathan Haidt and Pamela Paresky quoted in […]

"I'm more than what happened to me"

19 June 2019
Exclusion. Defined by the behaviour that can be seen, attributed to hidden defects, moved away. Dr Shawn Ginwright’s 2018 article ‘The future of healing; shifting from trauma informed care to healing centred engagement’ (see footnote) discusses changes over the last 30 years in our approach to serious issues facing young people, to how they behave […]

Discipline and Authority in schools - a bumpy ride

18 February 2019
Reconnecting behaviour and learning Discipline and authority in schools - a bumpy ride. When is enough enough and when is it too much? When practices run counter to what we know from recent research evidence on educating children with individual needs, differences and diversity, we need to look closely at what’s going on. From Jonathan […]

Reconnecting behaviour with learning

24 January 2019
  Are behaviour and learning two different things?  Most schools for many years have been treating them as if they are, with one policy for Learning and another for Behaviour. We talk about Behaviour Management as if it were a thing, but we don’t talk about Learning Management. Instead we refer to Teaching and Learning […]

New for 2019: online course "Solutions Focused Coaching for Students" in schools

22 January 2019
A limited spaces online course with direct access to the author. ‘Solutions Focused Coaching for Students’ UK Pilot Online Course 2019 A partnership between Dr. Geoffrey James of Action Against Exclusion and Nick Burnett of Next Level Greatness Why take the course? Managing the behaviour of some children and young people can be difficult, time-consuming […]

New for 2019: online course "Solutions Focused Coaching for Students" in schools

11 January 2019
A limited spaces online course with direct access to the author. ‘Solutions Focused Coaching for Students’ UK Pilot Online Course 2019   A partnership between Dr. Geoffrey James of Action Against Exclusion and Nick Burnett of Next Level Greatness Why take the course? Managing the behaviour of some children and young people can be difficult, […]
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