Managing Behaviour in Secondary Schools: Practical De-escalation, Classroom Routines, and Whole-School Systems for Safer Learning

Author:   Jacques Retief
Publisher:   Retief Libris Publishing
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9781923674707


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   11 May 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Managing Behaviour in Secondary Schools: Practical De-escalation, Classroom Routines, and Whole-School Systems for Safer Learning


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Managing Behaviour in Secondary Schools is a practical guide for teachers, school leaders, wellbeing teams, and behaviour coordinators who want calmer classrooms, safer learning environments, and more consistent whole-school behaviour systems. In secondary schools, behaviour is rarely simple. Teachers are expected to manage disruption, refusal, disengagement, conflict, escalation, low-level disruption, emotional outbursts, peer tension, and classroom resistance while still protecting learning, relationships, safety, and dignity. When behaviour is handled reactively, schools can quickly become inconsistent, exhausting, and difficult to sustain. This book offers a more practical and regulated approach. Rather than relying on punishment, panic, or personality, Managing Behaviour in Secondary Schools shows how effective behaviour support is built through clear routines, calm adult responses, predictable expectations, de-escalation, restorative follow-up, staff consistency, and whole-school frameworks that actually support classroom practice. Written for real secondary school conditions, this book helps educators understand what to do before, during, and after difficult behaviour. It provides practical strategies for preventing escalation, responding calmly in the moment, restoring relationships after incidents, and building systems that make behaviour easier to manage across the school. Inside, readers will learn how to: establish classroom routines that reduce conflict and increase predictability respond to refusal, disruption, defiance, disengagement, and escalation use de-escalation techniques without losing authority create consistent expectations across classrooms and faculties hold students accountable without relying on shame or reactionary discipline strengthen relationships while maintaining firm boundaries support safer learning environments through whole-school behaviour systems connect teacher practice, leadership decisions, wellbeing support, and school culture This is a book about creating the conditions where students can regulate, teachers can teach, and schools can function with greater calm, consistency, and confidence. Managing Behaviour in Secondary Schools is for educators who want practical tools, clear systems, and a more sustainable way to lead behaviour in modern secondary schools.

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Author:   Jacques Retief
Publisher:   Retief Libris Publishing
Imprint:   Retief Libris Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781923674707


ISBN 10:   1923674706
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   11 May 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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