It’s Not a Sentence
Behaviour in the secondary classroom — a straight-talking handbook for Years 7 to 13.
Behaviour plans, three-way conversation scripts and classroom templates — every printable tool in the book. Instant PDF download, plus a link emailed to keep.
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What this one’s for
The open challenge in front of thirty watching teenagers. The head on the desk. The phone, the vape, the slow slide into “can’t be bothered”. With secondary behaviour the audience is the point — take the bait and you’ve lost the room. The straight-talking handbook that hands you the moves: scripts, scenarios and tactics you can use this week.
- Defuse the open challenge without a power struggle
- Why provocation is often a bid for connection
- Use the system — pastoral, SENCo, DSL — properly
Behaviour plans, three-way conversation scripts and classroom templates — every printable tool in the book.
Who is this book for?
It’s Not a Sentence is for secondary teachers, form tutors and heads of year in England, from Year 7 to sixth form, facing open challenge, refusal, phones and vapes, group-chat bullying and students drifting into absence. It sets out what to say in front of an audience, how to follow up, and where the school’s systems take over.
What’s in the book
- 8X Isn’t a Sentence — How to Use This Book
- The Audience Is the Point — Behaviour as Status Work
- The Adolescent Brain — Risk, Impulse and the Push for Autonomy
- Provocation as a Bid for Connection — Attack or Cry for Help?
- The Open Challenge — How to Not Have a Power Struggle
- Presence Over Force — New Authority and Where It Stops
- The Total Refuser — Head on the Desk, and the Slide into Absence
- Bullying and a Toxic Class — Including the Group Chat
- Phones, Vapes and the Rest: Rule-Breaking with a Pull
- When It Boils Over — Threats, Violence and Coming Back
- Working with Tired Parents — The Three-Way Conversation
- Use the System — Pastoral Teams, the SENCo, the DSL and ‘Removal’
- On Solid Ground — Sanctions, Exclusion and Documentation
- Don’t Let It Grind You Down — Long Conflicts and Teacher Wellbeing
- The First Few Weeks — Preventing Trouble Through Classroom Management
- ADHD, Defiance and When There’s More to It — Understanding Without Diagnosing
- Sixth Form and College — When They’re (Almost) Adults
Free templates from this book
These printables come with the e-book. You can also use them on their own, free:
- De-escalation script card for teachers
- Behaviour incident log template
- ‘Is this one for the DSL?’ prompt sheet
- Parent meeting planner for behaviour
- First weeks classroom management planner
