Behaviour Management Handbook for Schools

A complete behaviour management handbook for classroom teachers, heads of year and senior leaders, written against the DfE’s Behaviour in Schools advice and quoted directly. Free to download.

Built on a five-pillar framework: routines, relationships, consequences, recognition and de-escalation — in that order. It treats consequences as one fifth of the system rather than the whole of it, and deals with the eight seconds after something happens, which is where behaviour is actually managed.

WHAT’S INSIDE
• 68 pages, professionally typeset for print
• The scripts: what to say in the moment, and the shape underneath them
• The escalation matrix for when the script does not land
• A teacher’s page for holding a room
• When it is the class, not the pupil, and how to rebuild a group
• The work is part of the behaviour plan: task design as behaviour management
• Written routine templates, a behaviour pattern review and a consistency walk
• A thirty, sixty and ninety day launch plan
• A 45-minute INSET workshop, ready to run

Covers mobile phones, behaviour that starts online, bullying, cover lessons, removal and reintegration, all against current statutory guidance.

Distinguishes throughout between what must be identical across a school and what should be left to professional judgement.

This playbook is free. The rest of the Empower Educators series covers safeguarding, attendance, SEND, culture, middle leadership, inspection readiness, and individual subject departments.