tombennett71.bsky.social
Behaviour advisor to the UK Department of Education. Founder of researchED. Professor of School Behaviour. Academica University of Applied Science.
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It’s attention hoovering
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HARSH
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Sorry, that was Charlie. Stand down.
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What, ‘Bit my finger’ Toby?
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Rightly so. No one needs that.
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I was an exclusion officer for the LA for eight years back in the early 2000's... carrying a knife was always a permanent exclusion and rightly so.
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AND FOR THE SECOND YEAR ON THE TROT, BENNETT’S BACK ON 8TH MARCH 🙌🙌 @tombennett71.bsky.social
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‘The meaning of horror’
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But every other child in the school threatened by a knife deserves their rights and needs to be upheld by us. And that means excluding any child with a knife. They need to know ‘this will happen to me if I carry’. Which maximises the deterrent, and reassures students, staff and parents: we are safe
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Exclusion doesn’t mean the student is ‘cast out of society’- they are placed in another setting, preferably a specialist one. This may even provide the young person with a better environment in which to change.
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Don’t worry, Ben, they’ll just find their way back to you through a series of capers that teach them the meaning of friendship.
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Did you have a substantive point to make or just what appears to be an ad hom? Which is sad thing to read.
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Thanks for the feedback!
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Ah, BlueSky, the kinder, more civil place :)
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About 20 seconds before someone told you to stand on the wing of a plane taking off or something because lol
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'Yes, but, man'
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School-to-school peer development is one of the most powerful processes I have seen in school improvement. Done with, not to
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I find it mad that, given one of our evolutionary superpowers is to pass on knowledge to others, we abandon that advantage so often in the education sector. It’s ironic that our whole profession is aimed at education, and we so often fumble that process when we instruct ourselves.
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And this maps onto the whole school; leaders need to see successful systems operating in order to understand, adopt and implement those systems most efficiently.
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But this maps onto adult learners too. Even teachers and leaders are far less likely to discover the best way to do things, by themselves. Which is why training is so important, not abandoning them to fate.