When The Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts In School
Behaviour By Paul Dix (Paperback, 2017)

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 You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software introduce 247 detentions or scream 'NO EXCUSES' as often as you want - but ultimately the solution lies with the behaviour of the adults It is the only behaviour over which we have absolute control Drawing on anecdotal case studies scripted interventions and approaches which have been tried and tested in a range of contexts from the most challenging urban comprehensives to the most privileged international schools behaviour training expert and Pivotal Education director
Paul Dix advocates an inclusive approach that is practical transformative and rippling with respect for staff and learners An approach in which behavioural expectations and boundaries are exemplified by people not by a thousand rules that nobody can recallWhen the Adults Change Everything Changes illustrates how with their traditional sanction- and exclusion-led methods the 'punishment brigade' are losing the argument It outlines how each school can build authentic practice on a stable platform resulting in shifts in daily rules and routines in how we deal with the angriest learners in restorative practice and in how we appreciate positive behaviour Each chapter is themed and concludes with three helpful checklists - Testing Watch out for and Nuggets - designed to help you form your own
behaviour blueprint Throughout the book both class teachers and school leaders will find indispensable advice about how to involve all staff in developing a whole school ethos built on kindness empathy and understanding Suitable for all head teachers school leaders teachers NQTs and classroom assistants - in any phase or context including SEND and alternative provision settings - who are looking to upgrade their own classroom management or school behaviour plan Contents include 1 Visible Consistency Visible Kindness 2 The Counter-Intuitive Classroom 3 Deliberate Botheredness 4 Certainty in Adult Behaviour 5Keystone Classroom Routines 6 Universal Microscripts Flipping the Script 7 Punishment Addiction Humiliation Hangover 8 Restore Redraw Repair 9 Some Children Follow Rules Some Follow
People 10 Your Behaviour Policy Sucks!11 The 30 Day Magic