Learning How to Be Angry
How to Be Angry publishes on March 21, 2022. Can you briefly outline your history? How has this background influenced what you write about? For…
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Person-centred approaches: a useful tool for supporting CYP mental health
By Dr Samuel Kelly, author of The Greater Me Cards As an Educational Psychologist, my role is often to collaborate with schools and organisations to…
Creating a Culture of Consent
Creating Consent Culture available at us.jkp.com. Can you briefly outline your history? How has this background influenced what you write about? Marcia: I’ve been doing…
Encouraging empathy and inclusivity through shared book reading
Encouraging empathy and inclusivity through shared book reading In honour of Anti-Bullying Week, hear from the authors of ‘A School for Everyone: Stories and Lesson…
Creating a Calm and Connected Classroom
You Can Be Human With Me: Where Did The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom Come From? The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm…
Supporting vulnerable students with a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach
Tom Brunzell and Jacolyn Norrish introduce their new book Creating Trauma-Informed Strengths-Based Classrooms which provides strategies for teachers that integrate the emerging research of trauma-informed…
Challenging perfectionism on the journey out of lockdown and beyond
In this article she explores how to best deal with stressful situations and
perfectionism.
Teacher Wellbeing: Q&A with David Gumbrell on his new training
Education Consultant, David Gumbrell has created a 3-episode training course for early career teachers looking to develop their resilience, through tips on improving teacher wellbeing and workload management. Using terminology from the ITT framework, it covers routines, mentors, colleague support and overall wellbeing.
LGBT+ Issues Matter As Much As Ever In Lockdown
Jonathan Charlesworth, author of How to Stop Homophobic and Biphobic Bullying, writes about ways in which schools can start responding to and solving LGBT+ issues, even during the disruptions of lockdown.
Why do we need to look beyond ‘mental disorders’ when handling intense emotions?
Here Bridie Gallagher writes about why we need to explore beyond the ‘illness narrative’ to understand why people might feel the way they do.