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Are Nurture Groups Relevant In A School Setting?
Introduction The more recent resurgence of Nurture Groups in schools as a strategy of intervention for children who are struggling with mainstream classroom settings is worthy of an exploration. There are many concerns about the placing of ‘nurture’ within a...
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What IS Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence (EQ as opposed to IQ) is one of those things that I talk about a lot (and I mean a lot) in the training that I deliver. This is because when we're talking about healing from trauma, being attachment aware or developing self care, EQ is uber...
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Should Teachers be Expected To ‘Fix’ Attachment?
A recent discussion on Twitter from a Deputy Headteacher and Director of Inclusion about how it is not a teachers job to 'fix' attachment in children led me to want to offer a response in a way that far superseded the 140 character limit afford by twitter, on whether...
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What Are The Current Roles of Artificial Intelligence in Education?
The excitement about the largely untapped potential for Artificial Intelligence to play a significant role in education falls very much in line with the era in which we find ourselves. The busy world we live in and that teachers are teaching in, with the extensive...
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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences
I have become very aware of the lack of awareness of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) studies as I wander about the country training Teachers, Foster Carers, Social Workers, Youth Workers and other professionals working with adversity. So here is a whistle stop...
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What Are The Implications of The Change In The Code of Practice (2016) From SEBD to SEMH?
Where Have We Been? What preceded BESD was the term ‘maladjustment’ which is dictionary defined to mean ‘a failure to meet the demands of society, such as coping with problems and social relationships: usually reflected in emotional instability.’ BESD changed...
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Can Neuroscience Inform Our Understanding of SEND?
ADHD is thought to affect 3% to 9% of school aged children and young people (NICE, 2008) which is a significant number of children and yet it continues to remain an area that causes great difficulty and disagreement when seeking to understand this condition....
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Do Attention and Memory Affect Learning Processes and How?
Using neuroscience to understand the brain and how it works with regard to memory and holding attention in order to comprehend how learning processes take place, is a very desirable proposition for teachers and for the classroom. However, what I perceive in...
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The question of what is home has always been a curious one to me. Having had such a fractured relationship with the concept during my formative years through the regular moves associated with the care experience and then through homelessness, I wanted to explore the...
read moreWhat Is The Capacity Of Neuroscience To Inform Educational Practice?
It is inevitable that the developing field of Neuroscience, which seeks to understand the structure and function of the nervous system and brain, is going to be seen by educationalists as relevant to learning. The brain, after all, is vital to the learning process....
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An Ode To My Teens
Is it wrong for me to gently lean into your head to see if it smells as it did that first moment I met you Is it something I should hide that I wake up in a panic in the middle of the night wondering if you're OK Is it wrong for me to yearn for the time we watched a...
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Self Care For People In The Caring Professions Is Not A Luxury
Here's the thing; no one is EVER going to knock on your door and say to you 'do you know what? You look tired. Have a massage, take a break for a while. " No one. Not ever ever. The thing about self care is that you absolutely have to prioritise it for yourself. It...
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