Behaviour Bites

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh

If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

This week Debs Kemp chat to Elizabeth wright about behaviour, disability and inclusion.

Elizabeth is a writer, speaker, and activist, Elizabeth brings forth all of her life experience to challenge people around disability, diversity, and inclusion. Elizabeth is A Paralympic Medallist for Australia, Elizabeth regularly works with schools running workshops and inset training on disability and inclusion.

* Trigger warning, this episode contains conversations about Pooky's personal experience of self harm, particularly at the start of this episode.

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

This week Clare chats to Dr Pooky Knightsmith,  A prolific keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer and author, she develops and shares practical, evidence-informed approaches to promoting mental health.  She’s also an autistic Mum of two who works hard every day to win her own battles against PTSD, anorexia, self-harm and depression

Pooky is re reading Paul Dix: When the adults change, Everything Changes

The books Pooky mentions on the topic she has written are: Can I tell you about self harm? and Children and Young People's Mental Health: Early Intervention, Ongoing Support and Flexible Evidence-based

If you are concerned about a pupil self harming and for further information:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/self-harm/

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/self-harm/about-self-harm/

https://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/self-injury-and-self-harm/

https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/if-youre-having-difficult-time/if-you-want-self-harm/

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

This week Clare chats to Natasha Devon MBE -  Natasha Devon MBE is a writer & activist. She tours schools, colleges, universities and events throughout the world, delivering talks as well as conducting research on mental health, body image, gender and social equality. She campaigns both on and offline to make the world a fairer place. Her current projects are the Mental Health Media Charter and Where’s Your Head At? which aims to change the law to protect the mental health of British workers.

Natasha is reading: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

The book Natasha couldn't think of during the episode was: The Wellbeing Toolkit by Andrew Cowley

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

This week Clare chats to Roisin Sullivan -  A member of the support staff team for a school in North London. Roisin Sullivan is a Speech, Language and Communication Officer and Trainer for the school and regularly runs training for support staff at her school.

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

This week Debs chats to Dennis Simms - Dennis Simms (@simmscoaching) is a school leadership and behaviour specialist who supports school leaders  through coaching and consultancy. Dennis is a former AP head teacher and is he is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Justice, and is part of their education policy unit. They discuss transitions and reintegration with a focus on Alternative provisions and pupils referral units.

Dennis is reading: 

He mentions this research - https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/csj-blog/warming-the-coldspots-of-alternative-provision

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

Behaviour Bites host, Clare Edmondson talks to Mary Twomey (who is also her sister) about Play Therapy and also about being a SENCO. We cover what Play Therapy is, a couple of case study examples and Top Tips as always at the end.

Links and further reading

Mary is Reading - Play Therapy by Virginia Axline https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/6747/play-therapy-by-virginia-axline/

Proffessional standards authority for Play Therapy (Mary talks about this list of practioners) https://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/check-practitioners/practitioner/play-therapist

Behaviour Bites hosts, Clare Edmondson and Debs Kemp (School leader, WomensEd Devon and Cornwall lead) chat about the impact of Covid-19 on behaviour in schools in September. This episodes discusses the behavioural issues that might arise in September due to time away from school. As always, we mention some key reading/listening on the topic (listed below) and we give three top tips on the topic.  

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD https://changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh

If you enjoyed the episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes. Our aim is to provide behaviour based CPD for free through the medium of this podcast. We also aim to get a range of different voices heard through this podcast - if you would like to be involved, email [email protected] and we will make it so.

Debs is currently reading/listening to loads of different CPD opportunities online

Clare is reading: Andy Buck - Basic Coaching Method

We are joined this week by Adrian MClean  – West Midlands based Adrian has worked in a range of Secondary Schools throughout his twenty-year teaching career.  He is an experienced Senior Leader with a special interest in student support and welfare.

As a Trust Leader for the Severn Academies Education Trust, Adrian is working with staff, students and parents to understand the importance of personal values and character and how these influence success, both in and out of the classroom.

Adrian is currently reading a Masters in Character Education at the University of Birmingham.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD https://changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh

If you enjoyed the episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

Further Reading:

The books Adrian talks about:

https://www.davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-a-true-story-of-turning-followers-into-leaders-by-david-marquet/

https://thomaserikson.com/en/books/surrounded-by-idiots/

https://www.nfer.ac.uk/media/2067/pace02.pdf - a resource that has case studies about schools using character education

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour. 

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

In this weeks episode Clare is away running CPD so Debs Kemp takes the helm and chats to Adele Bates - Behaviour specialist working across all sectors - and they discuss, Behaviour and Complex Trauma - such an important topic in the current climate.

Links and further reading

Adele is reading - Veronica Mcdermot 'We must say no to the status quo.' - https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/we-must-say-no-to-the-status-quo/book251649

Education Wellbeing Collective - #edwellcoll

A podcast about factors that influence behaviour in education, all in handy 15 minute (ish) bite sized chunks. Each week a different guest chats about a different aspect of behaviour and leaves you with three handy tips on behaviour.

This Podcast is brought to you by Changing Behaviour UK LTD changing-behaviour.co.uk/ who you can follow on Twitter @change_beh

If you enjoy an episode don't forget to subscribe to the podcast to receive updates on new episodes.

This weeks episode we are joined by Jonathan Newport - Managing Director for Learning and development for Team-Teach LTD and we discuss, Behaviour and Positive approaches. Clare manages to interrupt Jonathan midflow to tell him an embarrassing story about a headteacher telling me off during my teacher training. 

Jonathan describes his educational journey as, "beginning in a Primary school, enjoyed teaching the children who challenged. From there I moved to work for Barnardos at there Flagship Residential Special school, enjoyed 17 yrs working with amazing young people and incredible staff who were passionate about changing the life opportunities for those young people. In that time I opened a Primary school onsite, building curriculum/staff team from the ground up and we developed innovate ways of creating positive school experiences for them. Then 7 yrs ago I moved to work as a Director of Education in the corporate world and almost two years ago had the incredible opportunity to become managing director of Team Teach the country’s leading positive behaviour management training organisation. We are on an exciting journey to evolve as an organisation and support changing lives for some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and adults."

Links and further Reading

https://www.teamteach.co.uk/

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43894250-trust-first - The book Jonathan is reading at the moment, Trust First by by Bruce Deel and Sara Grace