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Why should Restorative Practice be used in schools?
Children spend a lot of time in school, sometimes the relationships built in schools are the most significant of their lives. It is therefore essential that the relationships we build in schools are positively maintained and effectively repaired and restored when...
What is Restorative Practice?
You may have heard of restorative justice - the system of criminal justice which focuses on rehabilitating offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large. It was in the late 1990s when Sir Charles Pollard introduced restorative justice into...
Why should schools consider the use of Emotion Coaching?
In this post, we’ll consider the benefits of Emotion Coaching in an educational setting. To gain an insight into what Emotion Coaching is, please see our previous blog post ‘What is Emotion Coaching?’. So, why is it so helpful to be using Emotion Coaching with...
What is Emotion Coaching?
Emotion Coaching was coined by American Psychologist John Gottman in 1997. His research is based in the realm of positive psychology, where instead of learning from things that have gone wrong, we look into things that are going well and how we can learn from them. In...
Why should we be using Precision Teaching?
In this post we will be discussing why Precision Teaching should be considered as an approach to assessment through teaching for students who are struggling to acquire or maintain a certain skill. If you are unsure what Precision Teaching is – please see our previous...
What is Precision Teaching?
Precision Teaching, also known as precision monitoring or precision planning, is a systematic, time-effective and cost-effective form of assessment through teaching. It can be used by educators with children and young people who are struggling with acquiring or...
What Works – Understanding the Data
What Works for Literacy Difficulties is intended to make it easier for schools or other education settings to make comparisons between literacy interventions. In order to judge whether an initiative has really made a difference, it is not enough just to ask the...
What Works for Literacy Difficulties – 6th edition
November 2020 sees the publication of the 6th edition of 'What Works For Literacy Difficulties?' (Lavan & Talcott, 2020). The 5th edition was published in 2016, and proved an invaluable resource for teaching staff around the UK. The full PDF and accompanying...
Understanding Trans Students
As trans people become more visible in society, the number of young people feeling confident and able to seek help with their gender identity issues is increasing. So what exactly does it mean to be transgender? The term transgender, or more often trans, is an...
International Men’s day 2019
Are young men at risk of mental health problems later in life? And if so, what can you do to mitigate the risks and help them now? In todays blog, we aim to look the reasons many men suffer with their mental health. How big is the problem? It’s reported that 1 in 8...
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