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Hi, I'm Kat Stern, creator of Expecto Patronum Consultancy and author of "The Excludables" 
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Welcome to the website!
I am a specialist in behaviour management within secondary education who works across mainstream settings and alternative provision. Whether you need a quick and informative INSET, or you want to significantly shift behaviour across your entire school, get in touch for a free chat about how I can help!
I am a specialist in behaviour management within secondary education who works across mainstream settings and alternative provision. Whether you need a quick and informative INSET, or you want to significantly shift behaviour across your entire school, get in touch for a free chat about how I can help!
"Kat has delivered excellent training to an audience of over 100 teachers. The training has been planned to a high standard and catered for the needs of the audience, has been engaging and promoted good discussion."
What is on offer?
Expertise in whole-school behaviour, SEMH, inclusion, classroom management and mental health in secondary schools (including the alternative provision sector and secure estate) and a completely bespoke program that can include coaching conversations with senior and middle leaders, group sessions and whole-school training. However much you want and for a seriously competitive price! An introductory chat is free - give me a call and find out how I can best meet your needs.
If you are looking for ideas, below are some examples of ways in which schools have chosen specific support:
School A:
An introductory session on managing angry and anxious students in lessons, delivered to their NQTs.
A half-day consultancy session with a senior leader, focused on restructuring the pastoral team and generating "buy-in".
A two-day audit of the whole-school behaviour and pastoral systems.
Two online consultancy sessions on creating a successful inclusion unit and reintegrating school refusers.
School B:
A 90-minute consultancy session with SENDCO and a senior leader, auditing provision for students with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH), and producing a plan for improvement.
A follow-up training session with Heads of Year on working with acutely distressed students.
A follow-up training session with behaviour support staff on a more productive and trauma-responsive use of time-out.
School C:
A training session for pastoral leads in response to rising levels of self-harm in the student body.
A follow-up 60-minute consultancy session on setting up a time-out space with sensory tools for older students.
A one-to-one session with a senior leader discussing how best to shift whole-school behaviour, with a plan for next steps to take.
At Expecto Patronum Consultancy we believe that every setting we visit has huge strengths and dedicated practitioners. You are all facing different contexts, with varying budgets and time restrictions, so get in contact and see if I can help!
kat.stern.is.at@gmail.com
Expertise in whole-school behaviour, SEMH, inclusion, classroom management and mental health in secondary schools (including the alternative provision sector and secure estate) and a completely bespoke program that can include coaching conversations with senior and middle leaders, group sessions and whole-school training. However much you want and for a seriously competitive price! An introductory chat is free - give me a call and find out how I can best meet your needs.
If you are looking for ideas, below are some examples of ways in which schools have chosen specific support:
School A:
An introductory session on managing angry and anxious students in lessons, delivered to their NQTs.
A half-day consultancy session with a senior leader, focused on restructuring the pastoral team and generating "buy-in".
A two-day audit of the whole-school behaviour and pastoral systems.
Two online consultancy sessions on creating a successful inclusion unit and reintegrating school refusers.
School B:
A 90-minute consultancy session with SENDCO and a senior leader, auditing provision for students with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH), and producing a plan for improvement.
A follow-up training session with Heads of Year on working with acutely distressed students.
A follow-up training session with behaviour support staff on a more productive and trauma-responsive use of time-out.
School C:
A training session for pastoral leads in response to rising levels of self-harm in the student body.
A follow-up 60-minute consultancy session on setting up a time-out space with sensory tools for older students.
A one-to-one session with a senior leader discussing how best to shift whole-school behaviour, with a plan for next steps to take.
At Expecto Patronum Consultancy we believe that every setting we visit has huge strengths and dedicated practitioners. You are all facing different contexts, with varying budgets and time restrictions, so get in contact and see if I can help!
kat.stern.is.at@gmail.com
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Video resource (5 hours of training and 30 minutes online consultancy):
The Complete Guide to Setting Up a Unit
Watch The Complete Guide to Running a Unit Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo
The Complete Guide to Setting Up a Unit
Watch The Complete Guide to Running a Unit Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo
Other ideas for training sessions:
Webinars available on request:
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Valuable insight from a 5'1 educator, who has worked in prison education, run a unit for challenging students, and led a LOT of line-ups!
This is a talk for anyone in a school setting who wants to increase their “presence”; particularly useful for beginning teachers or those stepping up to school leadership positions. We will take a practical look at two very different scenarios (one in mainstream and one in alternative provision) and examine the different ways we can increase the impact of our influence to create a safer, more stable and more productive learning environment. |
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ALL practical strategies (and practical subjects included!) Tips and tricks from a highly experienced secondary educator.
We all do it, but do we do it well? This webinar focuses on how to have a proactive plan within your class setting for supporting students with high levels of anxiety or who are quick to anger. It also includes tips for those who may be collecting these students from the class when things have escalated. All practical strategies (and as a PE teacher, yes practical subjects are included!) |
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Strategies for the guardians of the most challenging and vulnerable students.
This is for all educators who work with highly vulnerable children or in very challenging environments. I will be drawing on my experience of education in youth prison, of running a unit for students at risk of exclusion, and of managing whole-school behaviour in a large mainstream school. We will look at why it is so hard to “switch off”, the impact of being a “school guardian” to vulnerable children, and most importantly focus on strategies that support our guardians at an individual and organisational level. |
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The problems of behaviour in education, with all its complexities! Scientific evidence that will make you think and think again...
This webinar is for people in education who are willing to think BIG - ask yourself if you are willing to have your preconceptions challenged, and to be open to the complexity of human behaviour and the consequential challenges in our education system. Get ready to take something back to your schools and kickstart a debate! A guarantee that EVERYONE'S thinking will be affected. |