Phil Banks

This is a great book 🙏🏻👌🏼

The Day George Surprised Me: How Connection Can Transform Learning. A guest Blog by Dr. Lorena Franco Very excited to bring you a new guest Blog from educator Dr Lorena Franco, Arkansas. Lorena focuses on how individual empathy and connection can transform the lear…

Very excited to bring you a guest blog from Dr Lorena Franco, focused on education, empathy and relationships

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#edusky #teachplus #belonging

Improving Attendance – more than just a statistic. A Guest Blog from Olly Jefferies – Headteacher. USJ is a small primary school in the heart of a coastal town. Half of our families are in receipt of the Pupil Premium grant, 54% of pupils are…

Read my latest guest blog from Olly on creating a culture where everyone counts.
#belonging #culture #edusky #education #attendance

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Children don’t behave for teachers they like, they behave for teachers they trust, and who trust them. I have read a number of blogs recently, some by significant educational heavyweights, that equate relational behaviour management to ‘children only behaving for teachers that they like.’ This, over…

"A common misconception is that relational behaviour management means children behave only for teachers they like. While liking helps, RBM pushes further..."
Superb stuff from @philbanks.bsky.social
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The Dog Who Learned Through Love. A short fable about relational education. A puppy, beaten and neglected, was brought at last to a rescue home. Its body healed, but its heart still trembled at every sound. One day, a man came to a…

A short story about a dog.

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Navigating the Seven C's of Belonging A framework for securing belonging in your school or classroom.

Adrift on the seven Cs - help is at hand
@mab-dallah.bsky.social #belonging #edusky #education #mentalhealth

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Howay the lads !!@manchesterunited.bsky.social !!! Thank you very much, from all of us at @nusc.bsky.social 💪🏼🎉 Champion’s League here we come! 🎉🎉

My new substack explores my latest research on belonging using @fittocare.bsky.social
Read more here:
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Me too! Also have Brothers in Arms on vinyl. An epic album! Making Movies is also a classic

Part one: Two roles, One mission This blog is the first in a two-part series exploring how SENCos and school leaders can work together to lead truly inclusive schools. In th...

New Blog: 'Two roles, one mission'
In part 1, I explore the models of partnership that exist in schools today, from silos to full integration, and why aligned leadership is the foundation of meaningful inclusion.

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#SEND #Inclusion #Leadership #EduSky

Solar eclipse.

4 ways Labour can drive teacher recruitment With the government pledging to recruit 6,500 new teachers, it needs to focus on more flexibility and better representation, argues Dame Alison Peacock

'The Department for Education needs a clear strategy - and I propose it needs a wide range of different tactics to keep teachers in the profession as well as recruiting new ones.'

@alisonpeacock.bsky.social for @tesmagazine.bsky.social.

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#RecruitmentAndRetention

Was it my loft? 🤔😂👌🏼

Belonging is the Answer – What’s Your Question? Having interviewed many candidates, for many posts, over many years, when asked for advice on interview technique I have always said, if you are stumped for an answer, the answer is always relation…

Read my new Silver Bullet Blog here:
#belonging #mentalhealth #adolescence #adolescent #education #edusky

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See you in September
#belonging #partnerships

Good luck! Save the wine for half way 🍷

🦸‍♀️ Are you trying (and failing) to be a 'superhuman leader?'

✔️ Doing your utmost for pupils
✔️ Protecting your colleagues from additional workload
✔️ Attending after school meetings
✔️ Working in the evenings and at the weekend
✔️ Looking after your family

I can help.

They have their marketing spot on! 👌🏼

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CST: RISE teams a 'deeply questionable' use of public money Briefing seen by Tes shows Confederation of School Trusts is seeking policy review of government's regional improvement team plans

Exclusive: @cstvoice.bsky.social is seeking a policy review of the government’s RISE advisers programme, warning that it is a 'deeply questionable' use of public money

The Dark Side of Belonging Helping students to find their sense of belonging is not all about test scores and performance outcomes. It is proven to impact these, as outlined in my previous blog The Belonging Bonus, but this …

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Philip Zimbardo

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That’s the plan 👍🏻

Really important thread addressing some key issues about what we are really here for. Thank you @marymyatt.bsky.social

Tomorrow, HMI Lee Oswton and Mike Sheridan will join us to talk about what the proposed framework means in small schools. All small school colleagues are welcome. Follow the link below to register. my.chartered.college/event/small-...

Thank you to @hannahwilson.bsky.social and #DiverseEd for posting my blog on belonging and mattering.

The importance of feeling like you are valued and add value.

He doesn’t recognise this new sensation 😂

Food of champions! 🖤🖤🤍🖤🖤🤍🖤

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