Positive Behaviour Gets Students Ready to Learn

Positive behaviour systems have helped schools create calmer, safer, and more predictable classrooms. But once students are settled and ready to learn, the real work begins: developing the skills, dispositions, and agency students need to become capable learners. In this paper, James Anderson explains why Learnership is the next layer schools need beyond behaviour systems.

• Why Positive Behaviour for Learning creates the conditions for learning, but was never designed to develop skilful learners.

• How Learnership helps students engage with challenge, use mistakes, seek feedback, apply Habits of Mind, and invest effort strategically.

• Why motivation is best understood as an outcome of Learnership, not something teachers can simply create through more engaging activities.

• How schools can move from compliant classrooms to a consistent, school-wide culture of learning.

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