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Keith Bates is an SEMH expert, an experienced system leader in the education world and Associate Trainer with Adele Bates Education.
He is also a storyteller. Keith Bates has worked in schools for thirty years; residential special SEMH schools for fifteen years, navigated SEN challenges across Local Authorities, and led as a Headteacher for eight years. He has a lifetimes’ worth of amusing, horrifying and ultimately inspirational stories.
Nowadays, he supports school leaders, staff, parents and carers with pupils’ behaviour to improve the working environment for the staff – and enhance education chances for the young people.
The discussion around behaviour in schools is all too often black or white. Keith brings a grounded perspective that understands the lived realities of working with behaviour that challenges us. He empowers people to feel that we can do better in this imperfect world.
How comfortable are you with the uncomfortable?
● With being called a “see you next Tuesday” by a dysregulated child (or adult);
● With advocating for the young people everyone else has written off;
● Saying the things out loud staff/we don’t often want to say and sometimes don’t want to hear.
In the heat of working with challenging behaviour it is often difficult to understand past a superficial level – why children are behaving as they are. We may know the theory, but in reality, it can be difficult to gain some objectivity and perspective.
In this session Keith explores some of the neuroscience and psychology behind behaviour. We touch on the impact of attachment and trauma alongside considering wider contexts; changes in our society and education system that begin to explain why behaviour has appeared to become more challenging over the years.
The session is rooted in understanding behaviour… which is not the same as excusing it. One of many controversial discussions along the way.
There is no silver bullet and no magic wand. There is no set of strategies that will ‘get children to behave’. What there is, is a set of principles.
The more intensely we use these fundamentals, the more success we begin to have. Keith reframes what success for us means in working with children’s most challenging behaviour.
The session breaks down the core elements that give us more success and articulates how to develop these areas in our practice. This is Behaviour 101.
This area is specifically designed for school leaders.
Keith led a residential SEMH special school for many years, leading it to several top category Ofsted inspections. The second school he established also gained top gradings on their early inspections. He helped reduce primary school exclusions to zero over two years whilst working across eighteen schools as Director Of Inclusion.
In this session Keith shares the key areas for leaders to consider when building what is a truly inclusive mentality around behaviour in their schools. We guarantee it will consider elements of running a school you’ve never thought of before and arm you with the next step to do so.
There is a wealth of research and study now on the power of words, the power of no words as well as body language. However, it can be difficult to know how to apply some of those ideas in the face of high level defiance, as well as verbal and physical aggression.
As is his approach, Keith will take the theories surrounding our use of verbal and non verbal communication and put some practicality on them. He will cover a myriad different phrases and communication considerations that attendees can try and use in their own way.
Who would have thought where you physically stand in relation to the child could be so powerful?
There is barely a school that has not seen its relationships with parents, carers and families more tested in recent years. It truly is a hot topic in our education system.
It is also a topic that many steer away from due to its highly emotional and sensitive nature. But that has left us in a position where education has become very adversarial. It is serving no one, least of all the children in all our care.
In this highly popular session Keith explores how we got here and also the key principles to building open, transparent and constructive relationships with families. Crucially he also offers perspectives to help school staff manage their own wellbeing and emotional responses in these difficult times.
Keith’s ongoing work has had a significant impact on the culture and knowledge of staff at the schools. The combination of cultural process questioning, practical solutions, and guidance on how to work with children who are finding mainstream a challenge, has empowered all staff members to work as a team for all needs.
I have found Keith’s advice and guidance invaluable. He guides you to your own solution, from your perspective with his considerable expertise and knowledge as that guide. Keith’s experience has been at the foundation of some of the biggest and most inclusive projects this mainstream school has been involved with in recent years.
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