Pivotal

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This blog is doing the rounds on twitter. Shows how harmful Paul Dix is.

I think in management it is actually used as an idea about distributed leadership and sharing the load for the good of all, but in schools it just means what Noble said...

@Piggywaspushed, I've been called worse. I guess 27 years of teaching, visiting 200 schools, working with 22,000 teachers and challenging govt. ideology about behaviour methods (isolation, exclusions and zero tolerance myths) doesn't count for much these days if it's viewed as arrogance and not research.

Of course, there are behaviour problems, but there's no crisis: www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2019/06/09/6-behaviour-recommendations/.

I hope you are safe and well as this time of the virus. Best wishes, Ross

In my defence I love Mark Plan Teach...

I leant it to my friend and never got it back.

lent! Aaargh.

I have been given the Paul Dix book by my manager to read as a bit of CPD during lockdown.

I am a cover supervisor so no planning or marking for me to get on with.

I am on the sharp end of a lot of the worst behaviour, being a cover supervisor, and all of these strategies seem to rely on having consistent regular contact with a student for them to work.

The best thing in the book so far is the meet and greet, but often am running about getting cover and looking through it as I arrive so it is not possible alot of the time...

If Paul Dix hates teachers, he is certainly dismissive and sniffy about cover supervisors!! Not a good look, as I have been working a full timetable for months (before the lockdown), so 25 lessons a week, with the rest of my team doing the same = hundreds and hundreds of learning hours and nothing helpful for us except allowing students to tell us to fuck off, and smiling as they do.....

Anecdotally, my husband works opposite our local macdonalds. He saw a bunch of skool kids outside a while ago, causing such a nuisance that police were called.

When the police challenged these kids, they started behaving like they would at skool 'you can't prove we have done anything wrong! You aren't allowed to touch me! You don't have the right to tell us what to do!'

Were the policemen kind? Did they smile, offer to shake their hands, have a nice little chat about the way forward?

No, the treasures got thrown in the back of a police van. Because that's what happens when you make them think every adult they encounter is kind.....

Anyway, back to dick..... I mean, dix

I left a school where SLT did all the friendly stuff with some very challenging students. Anything that happened was the fault of the teaching staff and it reached a stage when kids would say I am off to talk to HT about this! SLT expected us to follow the behaviour policy to the letter but by the time it reached then is was all ‘don’t worry I will chat to Staff Rep and make her see sense’. Still makes my blood boil