In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults.
Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students' Healing, Growth, and Learning
This accessible guide advises teachers on creating classroom environments that promote healing and growth for all students, particularly the most vulnerable. Grounded not only in trauma-informed education but in positive psychology.
In this follow-up to his bestselling book When the Adults Change, Everything Changes, Paul Dix explains how teachers and school leaders can move beyond the behaviour management revolution and build a school culture rooted in relational practice.
This unique book offers practical advice and inspiring activities to encourage positive qualities in children and create a more connected family. A beautiful handbook for carers of younger children based on a background of holistic child development.
This practical K–12 teacher resource explains the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of using Questioning the Author (QtA), a powerful approach for enhancing reading comprehension and engagement.
Illustrates in detail how school leaders can successfully embed the Learning Power Approach (LPA) in their schools culture and empower teachers to deliver its benefits to their students.
The LPA is a way of teaching which aims to develop all students as confident and capable learners ready, willing, and able to ......
The central purpose of this book is to help teachers organise ideas through the use of graphic organisers. Over 35 such word-diagrams are: organised into a system to help select the right tool for the job; described for rapid understanding of their strengths; and explained for step-by-step construction. Over 50 teachers each have a double-page ......
Proven to reduce bad behaviour and exclusions, and encourage happier, safer school environments, restorative justice is an effective approach to conflict resolution.
Suitable for education settings from preschool to college, this guide explains what restorative justice is, how it can be used in schools, what it looks like in the ......
Successful students find a way to succeed. They get the results they want. And they achieve this not by superior ability, but by sticking to habits, routines and strategies that deliver those results.
By cutting through the noise surrounding academic success and character development, bestselling authors Steve Oakes and Martin ......
The Squabble-free Way to Get Kids Off Their Devices
Get ready to reunite parent & child from all walks of life and make finding healthy screentime balance easy and fun. Time Tokens - the only screen time management system of it’s kind - was created to makeswitching off kids’ devices easy and enjoyable (yes, really!).
Simple Stuff to Help Children Regulate Their Emotions and Senses
Packed with simple ideas to regulate the emotions and senses, this book will help children tackle difficult feelings head-on and feel awesome and in control!
From breathing exercises, pressure holds and finger pulls, to fidgets, noise-reducing headphones and gum, the book is brimming with fun stuff to help kids feel cool, calm and collected.
Maths teacher Michael Pershan presents a selection of practical ideas for effective mathematics teaching. The ideas are presented with examples and backed up by research.
An essential guide for any professionals working with autistic children and young adults, this book provides expert insights which need to be considered by professionals, parents and autistic people alike. It covers key themes such as anxiety and wellbeing, transition into adulthood, sexuality, intersectionality, and many more.
Interdisciplinary Thinking for Schools: Ethical Dilemmas MYP 1, 2 & 3 is not your average textbook resource. Innovative ethical design projects illustrated with spectacular artwork will connect students to exciting and purposeful learning.
Aims to enhance middle leaders expertise and intuition so that they can make informed decisions and communicate them effectively to both staff and students.
School can be a scary place. But you're not alone. This interactive workbook, complete with a parent's guide and professional's guide for teachers and therapists, will help you feel more confident about asking for help, as well as provide techniques that might make going to school easier for you.
E.D. Hirsch has had a powerful influence on UK education policy over the last three decades. In this, his final book, Hirsch provides a powerful blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance.
For more than a decade, the widely used Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children has been helping early educators use research-based practices to boost social-emotional development. Now theres a practical guide that makes it easier than ever to implement.
Hands up if you've ever been given lesson observation feedback that you didn't understand, didn't agree with, or just thought was plain rubbish. If your hand is in the air, you're in good company! When it comes to teachers receiving high-quality feedback that helps them improve their teaching, we have a serious issue in our schools.
Teachers want ......
In education, resources and time are scarce, yet the demand for performance is sky high. School leaders invest money and labour into improving their schools, navigating trade offs along the way. But what if one of the biggest improvements we could make to our schools was something we already do? What if enhancing teamwork so that school teams ......
Games to Play & Sing with Children aged 3 to 7 144 Counting, Finger, Beanbag, Circle, Clapping, Skipping, Water,
Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years - Games to Play and Sing with Children aged 3 to 7 offers a handy guide to playing games with young children.
First published in 2014, this book is a comprehensive manual for anyone wishing to use the circle in their classroom. The manual covers: the reasons, benefits and methodology of using circles in classrooms; the ways they can be used; and many examples of circle sessions for both primary and secondary classrooms.
A professional learning guide for leaders that promotes creative thinking in schools and develops creative learning habits in the classroom. This leadership playbook has been published to coincide with the global release of the first PISA test results on creative thinking, the Creativity Collaboratives under way in England and the growing ......
A Practical Guide to Transforming School Communities
Restorative practice is a proven approach to discipline in schools that favours relationships over retribution, and has been shown to improve behaviour and enhance teaching and learning outcomes. However, in order for it to work, restorative practice needs a relational school culture.
Dr Andrew Wake is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and for almost two decades he has worked with education staff to understand and better deal with the behavioural and emotional challenges that arise in a school setting. This book is a distillation of two decades of that work, with the aim to improve both student and teacher well-being.