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Product reviews for When the Adults Change, Everything Changes
Rachel Semark , Headteacher, The Cranbourne Primary School
Changing adults . . . How one book is transforming our school!
One relatively inexpensive intervention is changing our school for the better: When the Adults Change, Everything Changes by Paul Dix has been the driving force behind us getting to grips with a consistent school approach to behaviour. Our school has always been rated as outstanding for behaviour but there have been pockets of children with persistent poor behaviour, and the children have always behaved better for teachers than for support staff.
Reading this book changed my practice overnight, and I've been teaching for 28 years. I knew it was just what we needed, so I've become something of an evangelist. Now staff are reading it and we've based training and practice around what we truly believe to be the way forward. Support staff feel they have the language to deal with misbehaviour and that they are part of a consistent approach. There is a noticeable calmness about all the staff and they can't wait to come into the staffroom and tell everyone else how “the script” has worked! Some are even using it on their own children at home.
Children have responded extremely positively to the new rules we've introduced: ready, respectful, safe. They're enjoying thinking about how any old “rules” we had, which were hardly written down or formalised, can be incorporated into these three words. They talk about their own behaviour and the effect it has on others in these terms. Children and staff have a shared language.
Some education books are so self-worthy that they're difficult to plough through. When the Adults Change, everything change is beautifully written - engaging, humorous and so full of practical ideas it's almost impossible not to stick a post-it on or highlight every page. It's now referred to as “the book'” in school and every member of staff knows what that means!
It's true to say that as a whole staff we're at the beginning of our journey, but in terms of whole school impact it has already been hugely beneficial in terms of giving staff more confidence, (especially support staff), giving children a vocabulary to use for behaviour, reducing the amount of expensive time senior staff are spending dealing with incidents and enhancing the school's positive ethos.
I can't recommend When the Adults Change, everything Changes highly enough, and I know that if you were to ask the staff in school they would all say exactly the same. Thank you, Paul Dix and Pivotal Education!
One relatively inexpensive intervention is changing our school for the better: When the Adults Change, Everything Changes by Paul Dix has been the driving force behind us getting to grips with a consistent school approach to behaviour. Our school has always been rated as outstanding for behaviour but there have been pockets of children with persistent poor behaviour, and the children have always behaved better for teachers than for support staff.
Reading this book changed my practice overnight, and I've been teaching for 28 years. I knew it was just what we needed, so I've become something of an evangelist. Now staff are reading it and we've based training and practice around what we truly believe to be the way forward. Support staff feel they have the language to deal with misbehaviour and that they are part of a consistent approach. There is a noticeable calmness about all the staff and they can't wait to come into the staffroom and tell everyone else how “the script” has worked! Some are even using it on their own children at home.
Children have responded extremely positively to the new rules we've introduced: ready, respectful, safe. They're enjoying thinking about how any old “rules” we had, which were hardly written down or formalised, can be incorporated into these three words. They talk about their own behaviour and the effect it has on others in these terms. Children and staff have a shared language.
Some education books are so self-worthy that they're difficult to plough through. When the Adults Change, everything change is beautifully written - engaging, humorous and so full of practical ideas it's almost impossible not to stick a post-it on or highlight every page. It's now referred to as “the book'” in school and every member of staff knows what that means!
It's true to say that as a whole staff we're at the beginning of our journey, but in terms of whole school impact it has already been hugely beneficial in terms of giving staff more confidence, (especially support staff), giving children a vocabulary to use for behaviour, reducing the amount of expensive time senior staff are spending dealing with incidents and enhancing the school's positive ethos.
I can't recommend When the Adults Change, everything Changes highly enough, and I know that if you were to ask the staff in school they would all say exactly the same. Thank you, Paul Dix and Pivotal Education!
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25/04/2018 01:00
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