Relational Practice Summer Bundle

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We are excited to introduce our summer bundles for the summer break.

The Relational Practice Bundle includes the following:

Relational Practice Digital Training Course

This online course will delve into the rationale behind adopting a relational approach in educational settings. We will explore the growing body of evidence highlighting the profound impact of positive relationships on all facets of a child’s development and learning journey. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of why fostering strong connections between educators, students, and the wider school community is not just a “nice to have,” but a fundamental pillar of effective and equitable education.

The Kindness Principle by Dave Whitaker

The Kindness Principle: Making relational behaviour management work in schools advocates a behaviour management approach rooted in values, acceptance and a genuine understanding of children’s behaviour.

In an education system that too often reaches for the carrot-and-stick approach to dealing with poor pupil behaviour, an approach built on kindness and compassion might just provide the cure.

The Kindness Principle begins with the idea that relationships should be at the heart of behaviour management and culture, and sets out the ways in which the adoption of relational approaches can help create safer happier schools. Schools where all staff and learners are valued and understood, where expectations and standards are high, and where kindness and acceptance matter.

When Adults Change Everything Changes by Paul Dix

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.

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.

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