Leading Better Behaviour: A Guide for School Leaders, Mar/2020

How can an informed, evidence-based whole school approach to behaviour benefit you, your colleagues and your students?

In this companion to Better Behaviour, Jarlath O’Brien combines insights from his own experience of improving behaviour in schools, research and policy in a practical guide to support current and aspiring school leaders.

Through discussing the everyday issues that come with leading on behaviour, and casting a critical eye over sanctions, rewards and exclusions, this book encourages you to develop an approach that is firmly rooted in the values of your school, supports staff and will help navigate the challenges that can arise.

About the Author:

Jarlath O'Brien has been a teacher for two decades. He has worked in comprehensive, independent, selective and special schools, including in schools for children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and is also a Trustee in a local multi-academy trust of mainstream primary and secondary schools. For the last nine years Jarlath has been a Headteacher and Executive Headteacher. Early on in his teaching life Jarlath was also a volunteer Special Constable with Thames Valley Police.

Jarlath is a behaviour columnist for the Times Educational Supplement, has written for The Guardian and for several other education publications and trains teachers on behaviour, school leadership and special educational needs.

Books Also by Jarlath O’Brien

“Better Behaviour: A Guide for Teachers” - published by SAGE

“Don’t Send Him in Tomorrow” – published by Independent Thinking Press