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Teaching, Not Training

“Cui bono? Who benefits? is always a useful question to ask about a deeply entrenched and widely accepted practice. In this case, it is not merely the individual rewarder who comes out ahead; it is th...

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14 Jul 2025 Blog

It is OK to be Angry – Why Anger doesn’t belong in the ‘Red Zone’

Anger is often misunderstood, particularly anger in children. Many adults perceive anger as a negative emotion that must be suppressed or avoided. However, modern research in psychology and neuroscien...

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8 Jun 2025 Blog

Connection Seeking: Reframing Attention Seeking

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26 Feb 2025 Blog

Child lashing out for no reason? Spoiler alert: There is ALWAYS a reason.

Hands up who has heard the following phrases (or felt them yourselves – we won’t tell) about children’s behaviour: He does it for no reason. She is just trying to get at us. The behaviour is completel...

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1 Oct 2024 Blog

From Behaviour ‘Management’ to Fostering Wellbeing – A Way Forward

Psychology: The science of behaviour (Carlson & Buskist, 1996) was the first textbook I owned as a bright-eyed undergraduate embarking on my mission to leave the world just a little bit better. It was...

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26 Jun 2024 Blog

Behaviourism- Rats, Pigeons and Children

Behaviourism, a school of thought in psychology that emerged in the early 20th century, advocates the objective analysis of observable behaviours rather than subjective experiences. One of the princip...

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8 Sep 2023 Blog

Filling our Cups: How relationships transformed the data at Kinglake Ranges

Ever wondered what embedding the Phoenix Cups Framework into your service philosophy might achieve? Written by Mim Brown, Phoenix Support for Educators Download this Article Please subscribe below to ...

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1 Aug 2023 Blog

Behaviour Guidance from my point of view

The Short Story My approach to guiding children’s behaviour comes from understanding behaviour as communication to meet human needs. I believe that once educators have a deeper understanding of this, ...

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29 Oct 2021 Blog

Connection Plan

The Connection Plan - A behaviour reward chart that will actually work! Sandi Phoenix - Children's behaviour specialist Children don’t ‘misbehave’ to get our attention, manipulate us, or annoy us. The...

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2 Aug 2021 Resources

Need a behaviour chart?

The power of positive interactions in supporting children's behavioural learning By Sandi Phoenix B.Psych.Sc Sticker charts, rewards, and positive reinforcement systems are commonly used to ‘shape’ ch...

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1 Aug 2021 Blog

It's time to ditch 'behaviour management plans'

An excerpt from ‘The Phoenix Cups Framework: An Educator’s Toolkit for Behaviour Dear Educators, Can we talk about ‘behaviour management plans’? Or preferably, can we stop talking about them? Actually...

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31 Jul 2021 Blog

Get Muddy! No Sanitiser required

A few years ago, this photo would have made me squeamish. Mud. Yuck. Now, I’m an educator advocating for this kind of messy play. In fact, when I sat together with this little man, smooshing mud and s...

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31 Dec 2013 Blog

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