Brain Based Strategies
These principles focus on how learning happens and how to support effectively. They promote metacognition, deliberate practice, emotional regulation, and learning how to learn.
TimeToBelieve.TimeToBelieve.
Believe. Improve. Achieve.
... a culture of belief, values and behaviours which enables everyone to improve, believe & achieve.
12 rules
4 quadrants
1 culture of belief
Four connected pathways
A colourful framework that turns belief into visible routines.
Personal Growth & Responsibility
These principles focus on internal beliefs, motivation and the process of learning through struggle. They nurture perseverance, grit, a belief in self improvement and owning one's learning journey.
Belonging & High Expectations
These principles focus on creating an inclusive, psychologically safe and high-expectation learning culture. They promote environment, equity and the shared responsibility of staff and pupils.
Diversity of Thought
These principles focus on encouraging creativity, collaboration and multiple perspectives. They value the importance of different ways to think about a problem and group intelligence.
Is there a hierarchy?
Two places to start the journey.
Brain Plasticity - Make a Path and Better Today than Yesterday are game changers in shifting the beliefs, values and behaviours of teachers and pupils.
12 Principles
Brain Plasticity
Principle
Use the 'cornfield' analogy to help teachers and pupils understand the concept of making paths in a meaningful way.
Key language and behaviours
Use the 'cornfield' analogy to help teachers and pupils understand the concept of making paths.
Questions
What tasks generate learning / are critical to making secure pathways?
Always follow Rule 1
Believe to Achieve
12 Principles
Establishing and Embedding a YesUCan Culture.
12 principles
Better Today Than Yesterday
Better Today Than Yesterday
PupilsStaffNow
Encourage pupils to focus and celebrate on their own progress, however small, and not the progress of others.
Control the Controllables
Control the Controllables
PupilsStaffNow
Encourage all pupils to be active participants in the classroom.
The Power of YET
The Power of YET
PupilsStaffNow
Change the language to remove any fixed mindset inner voice e.g. 'I can't do this', to 'I can do this if I keep practising'.
Climate Control
Climate Control
StaffAll staffThis Term
Assess and evaluate the 'weather' in the classroom.
Live it not Laminate it
Live it not Laminate it
StaffAll staffThis Term
Continually promote the 12 YesUCan principles through the use of key language and behaviours.
No Artificial Ceilings
No Artificial Ceilings
PupilsStaffThis Term
Give pupils the same learning opportunities.
FAIL: First Attempt in Learning
FAIL: First Attempt in Learning
PupilsStaffNow
Celebrate making mistakes as a key part of new learning.
Cognitive Diversity
Cognitive Diversity
PupilsStaffThis Term
Celebrate and champion diverse ways of thinking.
Thinking Habits
Thinking Habits
PupilsStaffThis Term
Encourage and champion pupils to be guessers, describers, tinkerers, visualisers, conjecturers, pattern sniffers, experimenters and inventors.
Don't Panic!
Don't Panic!
PupilsStaffNow
Stay in the growth zone and out of the anxiety zone.
Brain Plasticity
Brain Plasticity
PupilsStaffThis Term
Use the 'cornfield' analogy to help teachers and pupils understand the concept of making paths.
Believe to Achieve
Believe to Achieve
PupilsStaffNow
Capture and celebrate case studies of how individual pupils are better today than yesterday.
Embedding the Principles
Establishing and Embedding a YesUCan Culture.
Questions
Better Today Than Yesterday
Do all staff and pupils believe they have the growth mindset that they can be better today than yesterday?
Key language and behaviours
Encourage pupils to focus and celebrate on their own progress, however small, and not the progress of others.
Prompts
Better today than yesterday. Believe. Improve. Achieve.
Believe to Achieve
Don't Panic!
Stay in the growth zone and out of the anxiety zone. We learn best if we are cool, calm and collected.
Key language and behaviours
Stay in the growth zone and out of the anxiety zone.
Questions
Do pupils give up too easily? Is this an accepted behaviour?