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“Our job is to teach the students we have.Not the ones we would like to have.
Not the ones we used to have.Those we have right now.
All of them.”
Dr Kevin Maxwell
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There was life before Yorkshire, the East End and Cardiff!
And as with most things it started inESSEX
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NO EXCUSES? Or supportive discipline?
What change leadership is required that doesn’t forget the
young people?
Passm
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• Our Challenges:– Deprivation – 3rd– Separated/divorced – 8th
– Lone parents – 1st
– Unemployed – 3rd
– Never worked – 1st (7%)– Council Housing – 1st (32%)– 1/4 of adults have recognised literacy & numeracy
issues– 54/1000 statement/EHCP in September 2015 – 52%
of all young people in Harlow.– 56% white British males
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• Ofsted gave us a ‘good’ for teaching:
– 91% of lessons were ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’
– 34% ‘outstanding’
– 9% were ‘RI’ all from teachers highlighted as still developing their practice
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Passm
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unconditional positive regard?• In a nutshell – unconditional positive
regard is the difference between reacting and responding to behaviours
• If we don’t ‘get’ this we run a risk of becoming…
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Passm
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Trust Storm
Distribute Form
Empower Norm
Performing?
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“What if I don’t want to‘get on the bus’?”
We all have a choice
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Passm
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Archilochus - “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
A hedgehog concept is not a goal to be the best, a strategy to be the best or an intention to be the best. It is an understanding of what you can be the best at for the marketplace you are in.
The distinction is absolutely crucial!
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What leadership is required?Transactional
• Responsive• Work within the
organisational culture• Success through reward
and punishment• Appeals to self interest• Maintain the status quo• MANAGEMENT?
Transformational• Proactive• Work to change the
organisational culture• Success through moral
values and higher ideals• Appeals to group interest• Promotion of creativity
and innovation• LEADERSHIP?
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happening in our school?
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leadership?1. Look into this problem. Give me all the facts. I will decide what to do.2. Let me know the options available with the pros and cons of each. I will decide what to select.3. Let me know the criteria for your recommendation, which alternatives you have identified and which one appears best to you with any risk identified. I will make the decision.4. Recommend a course of action for my approval.5. Let me know what you intend to do. Delay action until I approve.6. Let me know what you intend to do. Do it unless I say not to.7. Take action. Let me know what you did. Let me know how it turns out.8. Take action. Communicate with me only if the action is unsuccessful.9. Take action. No further communication with me is necessary.
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How can we be successful and inclusive?
We are being asked to move mountains
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Passm
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Support programmes / plans /procedures:
•Counselling
•Young Concern
•Desire 2 Aspire
•Relaxation Groups
•Anger management
•Anti-bullying task group
•Annual bullying and welfare questionnaire
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Support programmes / plans /procedures continued:
•1:1 tuition
•Home visits
•Bully text line
•Peer mentors
•Learning partners
•‘Look ahead’ panels
•Co-operative councils
•Restorative justice practices
Really knowing our young people – DATAand…
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Expectations:
• Uniform – PoP cards / shoes
• Punctuality (rewards and sanctions)
• Language
• Hairstyles
• Piercings
Sanctions:
• Whole school detention system
• Afternoon School / Disrupted Day
Rewards:
• Noticing “catch them being good”
• Passmores Points – automatic points / trading / certificates / lanyard
• Reward Trips
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Passm
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Passm
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http://vicgoddard.wordpress.com/our-passmores-passport/
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What does it look like?
A small example
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@vicgoddard