Principle 12
Believe to Achieve
Always follow Rule 1.
Principle
Establishing and embedding a 'believe to achieve' culture is a process not an event. It happens over time, not in time.
Key language and behaviours
- Capturing and celebrating case studies of how individual pupils are better today than yesterday is critical to transforming values, beliefs and behaviours.
- Establishing and embedding a 'believe to achieve' culture is a process not an event.
- It happens over time, not in time.
Questions
- Do all staff continually promote 'better today than yesterday' so that it becomes - and importantly, remains - part of every conversation about learning?
- Are staff encouraged, and expect each other, to live 'be better today than yesterday'?
- Are pupils given the opportunity to celebrate their own, and each others, growth however small?
Embedding the Principles
- Capture and celebrate case studies of how individual pupils are better today than yesterday.
- Continually promote 'better today than yesterday'.
Prompts
- Always follow Rule 1.
- Believe to Achieve.
- Better today than yesterday.
Beliefs, values and behaviours
- A process not an event.
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Believe. Improve. Achieve.