#162: How to Turn Your Teaching Into a Classroom Management Machine

What if the reason classroom management feels so bloody hard… is because you were never actually taught how to do it in a way that works and aligns with your values?

In this episode, I’m giving you a front seat to a live training I recently ran called Turn Your Teaching into a Classroom Management Machine — and honestly, it was too good not to bring onto the podcast.

If classroom management has ever left you feeling reactive, frazzled, hopeless, or like you’re stuck playing whack-a-mole with behaviours all lesson long… this one is for you. I’m walking you through the exact framework I use to help teachers stop focusing on what they can’t control and start leading with calm, clarity, and confidence around what they can.

I also share a really personal story from my first years in the classroom — including the student who completely changed the trajectory of my teaching life and became one of the biggest catalysts for the work I do today.

Inside this episode, we dig into what doesn’t work when it comes to behaviour, why punitive approaches leave us disconnected and disempowered, and what to do instead. I break down my Confident Classroom Pathway and give you practical, tiny-but-mighty shifts you can start using straight away.

So if you’ve ever thought:

• Why does this still feel so hard?
• How do I manage behaviour without turning into someone I’m not?
• What do I actually do in the moment when behaviour shows up?

…then let’s roll the tape.

What you’ll learn

• Why punitive, inherited classroom management keeps teachers stuck in reactive mode
• The real goal of classroom management (hint: it’s not controlling behaviour)
• How to focus on what you can control to reduce, de-escalate, and resolve behaviour
• The 4-part Confident Classroom Pathway: Ready, Reduce, Respond, Resolve
• Why understanding behaviour is empowering — even when it doesn’t excuse it
• The role your teaching presence plays in either calming or escalating a room
• How nonverbal mixed messages might be undermining your classroom management
• One simple question to ask yourself mid-lesson: Am I modelling what I want from my students?
• The difference between being the palm and being the fist when responding to behaviour
• A more effective way to address behaviour privately without locking horns
• Why restorative practice only works when it fits into a bigger classroom management machine
• How to stop lecturing students in behaviour conversations and start leading them instead
• The tiny language shifts that help students reflect, take accountability, and repair harm

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RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:

• Shop all resources
• Join The Behaviour Club
• My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management 
• The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
• Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'

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• Check out my website