How to turn a lesson around in minutes.

Imagine the scene. It’s Thursday afternoon, and you’ve skipped lunch because you had to go to one of those life-sapping meetings, the meaningful content of which could have been conveyed in a one-line email with the subject line “Something we have to be seen to do for Ofsted if they ever turn up”. Your stomach […]

Welcome to Strictly Positive Teaching.

“It’s just looking at things from a different perspective…” So began my pitch to the senior leadership team when I decided that I wanted the chance to roll out the behaviour management techniques which had worked so well for me for a decade to the rest of our staff. And as soon as the words […]