HeyJaredSEMH Education
Writings about the current picture of Education in England, with a particular focus on young people with Social Emotional & Mental Health needs. With occasional pieces about the Youth Justice Service.
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🚪What to Say When a Pupil Walks Out (opens the original)
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You give what you think is a simple instruction to the class. Then you hear it. A chair scraping and then falling backwards onto the floor. In a flash, a child is up and out of their seat. Before you can even compute what’s happened, the child is out of the classroom and the door has closed behind them. Twenty-nine other pupils are looking at you, also wondering what’s happened. You now have a pupil somewhere in the building who’s dysregulated and feeling unsafe. You have about 5 seconds to deci
🗣️ 5 Things You SHOULD Say to a Child in Crisis (opens the original)
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🔙 Last Time: What Not to SayLast time, I wrote about the five phrases I’ve learned to never say to a child in crisis. That post struck a nerve, over 2,400 of you read it, and dozens of you messaged me with your own “calm down” horror stories.But knowing what not to say only gets you halfway there. Standing in front of a dysregulated child with your mouth clamped shut, terrified of saying the wrong thing, isn’t a strategy either.So here’s Part 2: what I actually say, and j
GUEST POST: 🏃 Why Movement Isn't a Distraction from Learning, It's Part of It (opens the original)
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I'll be honest, when someone with a doctorate in this area offers to write for SEMH Education, you say yes immediately. Dr Sam Dixon researches physical activity in children and young people, and this post is his, written from the inside of a field that has a lot to say to teachers and SEND practitioners. Read on, and you'll find Sam's bio at the end.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="subscrip
❌ 5 Things to Avoid Saying When a Child Refuses (opens the original)
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“No.” “I’m not doing it.” “You can’t make me.” Three sentences you’ve heard children say countless times before. However, they land completely differently depending on why they’re being said.Children display refusal for a number of reasons. Sometimes it’s just to test the boundary of a new teacher. If you’ve ever done supply teaching, you’ll have been met with these phrases, I’m sure! Sometimes it’s just tiredness, a bad morning, or a dislike towards a certain subject. We experience this as adul
💆 “Regulate Before You Educate” But This Time, It’s For You (opens the original)
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There’s a phrase I use constantly in SEMH training: you can’t teach a dysregulated brain. We say it about pupils walking into a classroom carrying a rough morning, a chaotic home, an unmet need. We build entire behaviour policies around it. But right now, in the final week before term starts, I want to turn that same lens on us. 🧠Subscribe nowBecause here’s the truth nobody puts in the back-to-school INSET slides: you are dysregulated too. You
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