Health and Wellbeing
How and Why to Lead with Kindness
Lead with kindness that isn't soft, holding high expectations and unconditional positive regard together for the children who push hardest.
- 59 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Turn the values on your website into ones staff live every day
- Use the social discipline window to pair high expectations with high support
- Recognise toxic stress in a child's behaviour instead of assuming a choice
- Use PACE in everyday conversations with children and staff
- Start a conversation with sceptical colleagues about the pupils punishment isn't helping
About this course
Being kind to children is often mistaken for letting them get away with things. One leader who ran his school this way was called a danger to the profession in a blog, while the school was judged outstanding in every category, behaviour included.
High challenge and high support go together. The social discipline window shows you where your own practice sits. Understanding toxic stress changes how you read a child who seems to be 'making bad choices', and PACE (playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy) gives you a way to respond. And there's a hard question to take back to the staffroom. When a child is excluded, who is that exclusion really for?
It comes from a former executive principal of SEMH and alternative provision schools who has written a book on the subject. If colleagues are sceptical, start with the children your current system isn't reaching.
- For governors, middle leaders and 2 other roles. All phases.
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Webinar Playback
- 17 min
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