New Pivotal Online Behaviour Course Early Bird Offer
March 14th, 2010
We know that it is hard for teachers to get out of school to attend one-day courses. Now you don’t have to. Paul Dix’s acclaimed Taking Care of Behaviour course is now available online!
At Pivotal HQ we have spent a lot of time planning and preparing this course to make it as close to the [...]
Today’s Guardian Education
February 9th, 2010
Pivotal’s work with Portslade School in Brighton is the cover story in today’s Education Guardian
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Paul
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Campaign for Excellence in Teacher Training update
January 20th, 2010
Yesterday I met with Barry Sheerman MP who is Chair of the Education Select Committee. He was very enthusiastic about our campaign to formalise behaviour training for teachers on all training courses and within CPD. Barry has asked me to put together a panel of 8 people to speak to the committee/panel.
Having been to Parliament [...]
Teachers TV
January 14th, 2010
The new interactive online behaviour project with Teachers TV is ready to be filmed this weekend. We are trying to make it as authentic and practical as possible. the website drafts look great and I will get to play around with a prototype later in the week. Students will be from Kidbrooke School in Greenwich [...]
News, news and more news
December 13th, 2009
There have been some major developments at Pivotal in the last few weeks and I want to keep you all up to date.
Firstly the Guardian Education are going to be following the project that we are doing with Portslade Community College in Brighton on behaviour. The plan is to look at how we create change, [...]
European Conference for International Schools, Hamburg
November 22nd, 2009
Just back from the ECIS conference in Hamburg. My seminar was packed with 130 people sitting on the floor, in the corridors and standing at the back. I was very humbled by the reception. I do hope that they invite me back next year. Perhaps with a bigger room! I have been invited to speak [...]
We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For
November 18th, 2009
Last night Ellie and I attended the world premier of the new film on the state of education in the UK ‘We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For’. We loved the film, walked the red carpet, mixed with the great and the good and ate flying saucers! At the end of the film [...]
Guardian and Edge Foundation Seminar
November 11th, 2009
I spent last night at the offices of the Guardian attending a preview of a new film on the uncomfortable truths of education in the UK entitled ‘We are the people we have been waiting for’. The debate that followed was lively and thought provoking. I argued that if we want to seriously change education [...]
Rose review
October 16th, 2009
I am sure that as I get through the document, beyond the headlines I will be blogging in more detail, this is just a starter.
The arrogance of both Labour and the Conservatives in immediately rejecting the idea that children should start formal lessons at 6 instead of 5 is incredible. Those contributing to the review [...]
European Council of International Schools Conference
October 9th, 2009
I will be speaking at the ECIS Conference in Hamburg on November 20th. The seminar is ‘Behaviour, Emotion and Motivation’. If you are planning to attend the conference and would like to talk about Pivotal training for your school please come and say hello.
Paul Dix
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