Staff training
Staff training for teachers, youth workers, and anyone working with young people
We now offer two different strands of our Staff Training.
Click on each one for more info or scroll down the page.
SUPPORTING POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR AMONG BOYS
This session helps staff better understand the pressures boys are navigating today, and offers practical ways to support positive behaviour and challenge harmful expectations in
school.
Staff will:
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Understand the pressures shaping boys’ behaviour, including expectations around being a “real man” and how these can link to issues such as misogyny.
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Recognise what can be driving behaviour beneath the surface, such as trying to gain status, impress friends, or avoid embarrassment.
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Build confidence in responding to harmful behaviour, like misogyny, keeping clear boundaries while reinforcing positive behaviour among boys.
HELPING BOYS THRIVE
This training helps school staff better understand some of the pressures boys may be navigating - including peer expectations, status, belonging and ideas about masculinity - and how these can show up in behaviour, relationships and engagement with learning.
Staff explore a practical approach to helping boys thrive through stronger relationships, making success feel possible, and widening the ways boys can gain respect and belonging.
The emphasis throughout is on care and accountability: understanding what may be shaping behaviour while keeping expectations and boundaries clear.
By the end of the session, staff will be better able to:
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Recognise some of the social pressures boys may be navigating, including the influence of peer culture, status and belonging.
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Look beyond surface behaviour and consider what a behaviour might be helping a boy gain or avoid socially.
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Use existing good teaching practice with greater awareness of the peer context -
particularly around effort, struggle and asking for help. -
Strengthen connection with boys, including those whose interactions with adults have
become mainly about behaviour or attainment. -
Widen what gets noticed, valued and modelled, giving boys more ways to gain
respect and belong. -
Hold care and accountability together - understanding pressure without lowering expectations or excusing harmful behaviour.