He also enjoys working with classroom-based and other support staff, enabling them to find their voice and role within a positive whole-school approach. Whilst teaching Tara created programmes to improve boy’s achievement and support successful transitions from primary to secondary school. Paul Dix argues in this book– very convincingly – that when adult behaviour changes to be more relational, trauma-informed, ACEs aware and kind, kids settle down and everybody is happier.

There are often displays around the site that demonstrate what each rule means in different contexts. Walking up to one school in the north of England reminded me of a thousand other schools, but inside it was anything but ordinary. Stephen Baker is the author of That Behaviour Book: The simple truth about teaching children, an essential book for every teacher, providing an engaging and unique mix of anecdotes, practical strategies and moral imperatives for successful and child-centred behaviour management.Walking the corridors of a school, there is so much that is obvious; the exceptional work on the walls, the way the pupils move around, pictures and certificates that sit behind sticky back plastic displays and those children that either positively or negatively capture our attention as we pass. His book When The Adults Change, Everything Changes published in 2017 by Crown House has sold more than 150,000 copies. A skilled, empathetic specialist who can work with the learner to meet their immediate needs and stem the flow of poor conduct. Being deeply experienced and extraordinarily observant they can give you the insight you need to create transformational change.

Intuitive insightfulness comes, not just from being a teacher and leader but from years of experience in shifting policy to irresistible practice. When the Adults Change, Everything Changes illustrates how, with their traditional sanction- and exclusion-led methods, the 'punishment brigade' are losing the argument.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. At the start of the day or at the start of the lesson, stand at the door and shake hands with your learners – like you might do if someone knocked at your front door at home. He has worked as an Advisory Teacher for Tower Hamlets Behaviour Support Team, been a SENCo in two mainstream secondary schools and Pastoral Deputy Head, DSL and Inclusion lead. Shows that it's far more effective to change the behaviour of the adults in a school than it is to try to change the behaviour of the children.