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When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour Paperback – 29 Jun. 2017
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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 24/7 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 recall.
When 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
5. Keystone 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
- ISBN-109781781352731
- ISBN-13978-1781352731
- PublisherIndependent Thinking Press
- Publication date29 Jun. 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.49 x 1.52 x 23.11 cm
- Print length208 pages
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This book is a must-read for anyone who works with children or young people. Teachers, youth workers and support staff at the beginning of their careers will discover a wide range of useful strategies and explanations as they begin to tackle the sometimes mystifying behaviours exhibited by young people today. More seasoned leaders are guaranteed to find behaviour management gems that will both enhance and strengthen their toolkit. Paul s writing is incisive and challenging; it successfully conveys a clear sense of his extensive and dedicated experience of all sectors of education. I am particularly pleased to see his recognition of the wealth of valuable experience and excellent practice that can be found amongst staff who work within the alternative provision sector, who have long been undervalued. Each chapter of this book is themed and concludes with three helpful checklists Testing, Watch out for and Nuggets which the reader will return to again and again for reference. --Seamus Oates, CBE, CEO, TBAP Multi-Academy Trust
This book is a game changer. Your students need you to read When the Adults Change, Everything Changes. Reading this book is like sitting down and having a coffee and a chat with Paul Dix while he lays out a road map showing you how to avoid pitfalls and transform lives. Rather than a list of quick behaviour tips, it offers a how-to mindset shift that sets staff (and students) up to win. If you came into teaching to make a difference, make this the next book you read. It s typically generous of Paul to create such a gift of a resource for trainees, teachers and veterans alike a blueprint for building authentic relationships with students, even in seemingly impossible situations. On a personal note, teachers like Paul (and like you if you choose to read this fantastic book) literally saved my life. It s not easy being a hero, but this book gives you all of the tools and wisdom you need to put your intentions into action. --Jaz Ampaw-Farr, speaker, author and Resilience Ninja
About the Author
As a teacher, leader and teacher trainer, Paul Dix has been working to transform the most difficult behaviour in the most challenging urban schools, referral units and colleges for the last 25 years. Miraculously, Paul trained at Homerton College, Cambridge, after countless attempts to sabotage his own education. He then moved on to work in tricky schools in East London, Nuneaton and Birmingham.
In addition to working directly with schools, Paul has advised the Department for Education on the teachers standards, given evidence to the Education Select Committee and done extensive work with the Ministry of Justice on behaviour and restraint in youth custody. He has published five books on behaviour and assessment, in addition to over 250 articles on behaviour. Paul won a national training award in 2009 for his work in helping a school transform from failing to good in just nine months. He also chairs the board of directors of a multi-academy trust which comprises 11 special schools a role he undertakes voluntarily and leads the #BanTheBooths campaign (www.banthebooths.co.uk).
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- ASIN : 1781352739
- Publisher : Independent Thinking Press (29 Jun. 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781781352731
- ISBN-13 : 978-1781352731
- Dimensions : 15.49 x 1.52 x 23.11 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author

As a teacher, leader and teacher trainer Paul has been working with the most difficult behaviours in the most challenging contexts for the last 27 years. Miraculously Paul studied at Homerton College Cambridge after countless attempts to sabotage his own education. He is a speaker in high demand engaging huge audiences in practical ways to transform their classrooms, relationships and schools. Paul also works with Leadership Teams to create seismic shifts in culture and behaviour.
Paul fell in love with teaching while working as a Teaching Assistant after leaving school. Teaching both inspired and drew him in due to the creativity, the variety and the cohort after cohort of utterly brilliant children he encountered.
Paul has delivered training and spoken on large stages all over the world, advised the English Department for Education on Teacher Standards, given evidence to the Education Select Committee and carried out extensive work with the Ministry of Justice on Behaviour and Restraint in Youth Custody.
His book When The Adults Change, Everything Changes published in 2017 by Crown House has sold more than 120,000 copies. The follow up After the Adults Change was released last year and has been a best-seller on Amazon.
Paul is currently writing a new Parenting book for Penguin Random House. He works internationally on Behaviour, Culture and School Reform and Tweets on @PaulDixTweets.
You can find out more about Paul's work at www.WhenTheAdultsChange.com
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I just read this book in 3 1/2 hours without getting up from my chair. I now have pages of notes, a to-do page for some individuals and ideas for while school behaviour policy reform.
This book is brimming with sound advice but still readable. Some anecdotes had me chuckling, others made me angry or sad as I've seen them happening in my children's schools.
Every teacher needs to read this, every SLT and SENDCo needs to enforce the messages from this. As a parent I wish this strongly for today's children and as a teacher I can think of colleagues for whom this would be second nature and others who would need a little nudge, but don't we all want the best for the children in our care?
Buy it.