How can a Cookie Jar support better behaviour?
“When students get to know that you care about them as individuals…then the teacher’s discipline is judged and accepted within the understanding that the teacher cares about them” Bill Rogers, [...]
Reconnecting with school – Putting the Recovery Curriculum into practice.
Why these Recovery Lessons? When I wrote about what would be needed as students return to school after lockdown I always knew that I would need to put the Connection ideas into practice. The [...]
Coaching never ends. My coaching journey…so far!
I first came across a transformational coaching methodology around 2007 when I saw the Channel 4 programme Ballet Hoo where marginalised young people from the West Midlands worked with a charity [...]
Getting Connected after Isolation–3 words to reconnect kids to the joy of school
Every day I work with young people who are out of school – sometimes temporarily at home because of illness but often out of school because they are permanently excluded from one school and [...]
How do you work with a permanently excluded student in their own home?
I am privileged to be invited into the homes of young people whose world has collapsed, so I tread gently. I am the professional and I am there to help but I am mostly working with people across [...]
Refreshment for the Teaching Mind – BrewEd Birmingham 2019
A special educational brew was mashed in Birmingham this weekend in a very spruced-up pub, in a very-spruced up area of Birmingham not far from the future terminal for HS2 (not a terrifying Orc [...]