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If you understand the research looking at phone usage in schools, or worked in safeguarding, or pastoral issues, you know that mobile phones are a huge problemhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/24/dear-gavin-williamson-teenagers

This program creates networks of schools supporting schools to improve their behaviour cultures. Almost all of the money goes to the schools to cover staff costs, and the admin to

This is a brutal & cruel personal attack on an extraordinary head teacher and school where children flourish, are safe, and happy. It's also a school you have not visited.

Some thoughts on behaviour arising from recent comments on (where else?) The Twitter 1. Children, for the most part, have not been traumatised by lockdown. There is no evidence to

The No More Exclusions scandal has at least had the effect of exposing the extremist, anti-child ideologies that trouble mainstream discourse around school behaviour. Put simply: some people really do

Reminder that @Doug_Lemov’s Teach Like A Champion is one of the great books there are on behaviour in classrooms. It was written by someone who worked in challenging classrooms, informed

Restorative practice is one tool out of many. It can be as useful as a hammer putting up a picture frame, or as useless as a screwdriver sawing wood. It

A cautionary tale. If we want to prepare teachers for classrooms, we need to avoid drowning them in clown-cat pedagogyhttps://twitter.com/lauratsabet/status/1248644721288896515 *car

There’s a (possibly apocryphal) anecdote about Gandhi insisted on meeting representatives of the Crown at the top of a mountain with no road, so they spent an hour climbing. Exhausted,

Amazing: Wittgenstein’s brutal, disastrous self-experiment in teaching primary kidshttp://www.openculture.com/2015/05/ludwig-wittgensteins-short-strange-brutal-stint-as-an-elementary-school-teacher.html Never mind your fancy ‘get into teaching’ adver