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Whole-school strategies for behaviour, SEND and attendance

For SLT, pastoral leads, DSLs and SENCOs

The behaviour playbook is free — leave your name and email and it is yours. Every other opens at its first chapter, so you can read a real one before you buy, and each is yours to photocopy for your own staff.

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Behaviour & Classroom Culture Free

Calm Classrooms, Confident Schools

Evidence-informed behaviour management for secondary schools: aligned to DfE statutory guidance and the Ofsted framework, grounded in established psychological theory, and written to be handed straight to your teaching staff.

  1. 1 Routines
  2. 2 Relationships
  3. 3 Consequences
  4. 4 Rewards
  5. 5 De-escalation

DfE statutory guidance & the Ofsted inspection toolkit · 68 pages, 65 sections ·For classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review

68 pages · 65 sections · free to every school

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Attendance & Persistent Absence £5.99

Every Day Counts, Confident Schools

Written to the July 2026 statutory guidance: how a secondary school finds the children who are slipping, understands why, and gets them back, before absence becomes a safeguarding matter.

  1. 1 Expect
  2. 2 Notice
  3. 3 Understand
  4. 4 Support
  5. 5 Escalate

DfE July 2026 statutory guidance & the Ofsted inspection toolkit · 61 pages, 56 sections ·For classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review

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Safeguarding & Child Protection £5.99

Safe Children, Confident Schools

Evidence-informed safeguarding for schools: aligned to Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 and the Ofsted inspection toolkit, grounded in statutory duty and everyday practice, and written to be handed straight to every adult in your building.

  1. 1 Culture
  2. 2 Recognise
  3. 3 Respond
  4. 4 Record
  5. 5 Refer

KCSIE 2026 & the Ofsted inspection toolkit · 60 pages, 57 sections ·For every adult in school, all-staff INSET and DSL review

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SEND & Inclusion £5.99

Every Child Included, Confident Schools

One pupil in five is on SEN support or holds an EHC plan. Inclusion is now graded in its own right. This is how a school meets both, without lowering a single expectation.

  1. 1 Culture
  2. 2 Identify
  3. 3 Adapt
  4. 4 Track
  5. 5 Mobilise

The SEND Code of Practice 2015, the Children and Families Act 2014 & the 2025 Ofsted toolkit · 69 pages, 64 sections ·For SENCOs, SLT, teachers and teaching assistants

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Culture, Recognition & Belonging £5.99

Motivated Minds, Confident Schools

How to move a secondary school from compliance to commitment: evidence-informed recognition, deliberate belonging and an adult culture strong enough to hold it. Written to be handed straight to your staff.

  1. 1 Micro-Recognition
  2. 2 Values-Aligned Praise
  3. 3 Recognition Ladders
  4. 4 Belonging & Agency
  5. 5 Adult Culture

DfE statutory guidance & the Ofsted inspection toolkit · 59 pages, 54 sections ·For classroom practice, staff INSET and SLT policy review

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Middle Leadership & Team Development £5.99

Trusted Leaders, Confident Schools

From subject expert to team leader: how to hold former peers to account, build a department people speak honestly in, and turn data into teaching, without adding a single hour of administration.

  1. 1 Establish
  2. 2 Connect
  3. 3 Challenge
  4. 4 Develop
  5. 5 Evidence

DfE NPQ frameworks, the Ofsted inspection toolkit & KHDA · 60 pages, 55 sections ·For middle leaders, department INSET and SLT policy review

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Evidence, Self-Evaluation & Inspection Readiness £5.99

Inspection-Ready, Confident Schools

One continuous evidence system that serves every inspection a British-curriculum school can face: Ofsted, ISI and SIAMS in the UK, BSO for British-curriculum schools abroad, and KHDA, ADEK, SPEA and the Ministry of Education across the Emirates. For SLT, governors, INSET and self-evaluation review.

  1. 1 Know
  2. 2 Evidence
  3. 3 Rehearse
  4. 4 Narrate
  5. 5 Sustain

Eight inspection frameworks, each from its own published source · 62 pages, 57 sections

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The house format

Evidence first, theory second, practice at the centre. Nothing is asked of a classroom before the case for it has been made.

  1. 01

    The Case

    why this matters, in named published evidence

  2. 02

    The Theory

    the established research the practice rests on

  3. 03

    The Practice

    the five pillars, worked through classroom by classroom

  4. 04

    For Leaders

    what SLT owns, and how to hold the line

  5. 05

    The Toolkit

    print-and-use templates, scripts and a staff session outline

  6. 06

    Closing

    what to do in the first fortnight

  7. 07

    The International Chapter

    in the whole-school books, the same ground rebuilt on Gulf regulation

Subject playbooks For heads of department and every teacher in one

The pillar spine

Every book turns on a named few

One architecture, used every time — carried on the cover and worked through section by section. The playbooks are where it is set out in full, and the schemes of work and examination playbooks are built on the same discipline. Pick a playbook to see its own.

Calm Classrooms, Confident Schools
  1. 01 Routines Consistency and routine — the non-negotiables that make every other strategy possible.
  2. 02 Relationships Relationships first. The pillar the other four rest on, and the one that takes longest to build.
  3. 03 Consequences Clear and predictable, applied the same way by every adult in the building.
  4. 04 Rewards Recognition used deliberately rather than occasionally, and aimed at the behaviour rather than the child.
  5. 05 De-escalation De-escalation and co-regulation: what to do once a situation is already hot.

Questions

  1. Who are the whole-school playbooks for?

    Senior leadership, pastoral leads, designated safeguarding leads and SENCOs. They are written to be read by a leader and then handed chapter by chapter to teaching staff.

  2. Are they current with Ofsted and DfE guidance?

    They are written from the statutory guidance and the current Ofsted framework, read from the published documents and quoted in place instead of summarised.

  3. What format do I get?

    A PDF, typeset for A4 and ready to print. It downloads immediately after payment, and the link stays valid so you can come back to it.

  4. Can I share it with my department?

    Yes. Every resource is free to reproduce inside the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round a department. The licence covers one school.

  5. Can I see it before I buy?

    Yes. The opening pages of every paid title are readable in the browser, free and without signing up. The behaviour playbook is free in full for a name and an email.

  6. Is it a subscription?

    No. One payment, and the file is yours. There is nothing to cancel.

  7. What if it is not what I expected?

    If the file is broken, wrong, or never arrived, you get a refund. Email info@empowereducators.co.uk with the receipt number.

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