Sam Garner shares strategies for supporting young people affected by low mood and depression at the Wellbeing MENA 2021 conference.

Supporting young people affected by depression

Nina Jackson shares ways to help manage the SENCO workload and caseload successfully and efficiently in a workshop recorded at the SEND Leadership conference in February 2021.

Managing and reducing SENCO workload

Self-harm is on the increase among children and young people. Nicola Harvey shares how to better understand and be ready to spot the signs of self-harm.

Understanding and recognising self-harm

How confident would you be in talking to a pupil about self-harm? In this short video, Nicola Harvey explores ways to respond to and help a pupil who might be self-harming.

Responding to self-harm

Liz Worthen interviews Adele Bates about her book '“Miss, I don’t give a sh*t”: Engaging with Challenging Behaviour in Schools'. What inspired her to write the book? What did she learn in the process? Does she have advice to offer any other aspiring authors?

Adele and Liz book chat

Practicing self-compassion can improve wellbeing and resilience, as well as reducing the risk of stress and burnout. Psychotherapist and mindfulness educator Julie Johnson explains how in this conversation with Liz Worthen, Head of Content at Optimus Education.

What is self-compassion, and why does it matter?

Interview between a teaching assistant and her line manager discussing a classroom incident. 

Tackling High-level Disruptive Behaviour course (C62 Unit 3 Step 4)

Tackling High-level Disruptive Behaviour: TA and line manager interview

Natalie Packer gives an overview of what is meant by high quality teaching, why it matters and what it might look like in the classroom.

High quality teaching for pupils with SEND – an overview

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