Decode
Behaviour management for the SEND reality of mainstream classrooms.
A one-day CPD programme built around the behaviour patterns that SEND prevalence has made common in every classroom — diagnosed or not.
The problem
Mainstream classrooms have changed. Most behaviour training hasn't caught up.
SEND prevalence in mainstream classrooms has increased significantly.
Many of these pupils are undiagnosed, awaiting assessment, or never formally identified at all.
The result is more behavioural variability, in every classroom.
Regardless of whether a teacher knows who's affected or why.
Most behaviour training is either too generic or too diagnostic.
Neither is usable when you don't know who's diagnosed and who isn't.
That's why Decode is behaviour-led, not diagnosis-led. It gives teachers a framework that works for the pupil in front of them right now — diagnosed, undiagnosed, or neither.
What Decode is
Decode is not
- SEND awareness training.
- Therapy-based training.
- A generic behaviour management course with complexity bolted on.
Decode is
A practical behaviour management methodology built around the five patterns that drive the majority of classroom incidents, with a staged response framework that works across the whole class — diagnosed, undiagnosed and non-SEND pupils alike.
Behaviour-led, not diagnosis-led.
The Decode Five
Five behaviour patterns that drive most classroom incidents.
Capacity overload expressed as shutdown, refusal or dysregulation.
Anxiety avoidance expressed as withdrawal and passivity.
Rigidity and control-need expressed as inflexibility and argument.
Threat response expressed as confrontation and status defence.
Social need expressed as audience-seeking disruption.
What a school gets
One training day
Whole-staff or team applicable
Practical tools usable from the next lesson
A shared behaviour language across the school
Behaviour-led, not diagnosis-led
Who it's for
Mainstream secondary schools where behaviour complexity has increased and existing approaches are producing inconsistent results.
Suitable for whole-staff INSET, department teams, and NQT/ECT cohorts.
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