Solution Oriented Schools Programme

1. Solution Oriented Schools Programme A summary of the programme June 2008 Behaviour Support Service

2. Solution Oriented School Background to programme What the programme looks like How it will help schools

3. Solution Oriented School Ioan Rees has created a practical and empowering programme. User-friendly manual Step-by-step guidelines Transform schools into ’places of possibility’

4. The Principles of SOS • If it works do more of it; if it doesn’t work do something different. • A small change in any aspect of the problem can initiate a solution • People have the necessary resources to make changes • A focus on future possibilities enhances change

5. The Principles of SOS • No sign up no change • Co-operation enhances change • The problem is the problem not the person • Possibilities are infinite • People have unique ways of solving their problems • Keep one foot in pain and one foot in possibility

6. sos overview Multi-Agency Collaboration strength based support Levels of Individual, Reflective Team & Group work Professional Reflection Teacher/Facilitator Coaching Solution Oriented Levels (SOL) classroom playground adult partners policies curriculum staff room parents School Elements proficiencies provisions foundations communication optimal conditions Teacher Elements CPP & Principles

7. Overview of the programme for facilitators SOS Facilitator Training Level 1 Level 2 Duration of Training 4 x ½ days 1 whole day School training • Practical ongoing support to implement each of the approaches Facilitator Training Select Solution Oriented Facilitators

8. Facilitator Training Key Skills L1 • Hearing the story • Listening to the ‘pain’ • Listening for ‘exceptions’ • Promoting the ‘possibility of change’ • Effective goaling • Use of scaling

9. Facilitator Training Key Skills L1 • Competency Profiling (constructive feedback) • Pupil Coaching • Staff Coaching • Reflective Teams • Solution Oriented meetings

10. Facilitator Training Key Skills L2 • Sharing practice • Next steps in training and support • Agreeing Core Professional Purpose (CPP) • Formulating principles • Developing optimal conditions for school using the school file

11. How this will help schools • Shifts the focus from problems to solutions • Increases the positive ethos • Enhances their positive learning environment • Helps to provide a consistent structure • Supports completion of SEF requirements • Enhances collaboration with support services and other agencies

12. How this will help staff • Identify and use all the resources in the staff • Enable all staff to use a solution oriented approach • Provide an inbuilt support for staff • Deliver personal and professional development for staff • Increase staff skills • Improve relationships

13. How it will help pupils • Increase positive support • Recognise and celebrate skills, strengths and resources in pupils • Help pupils to identify their own solutions to their own problems • Further enable pupils to support each other • Promote the ECM agenda

14. How it will help parents and carers • Further improve communication with the school • Help the development of positive relationships with the school • Promote conversations about solutions rather than problems • Help to acknowledge the skills, strengths and resources of their children and themselves.

15. Continuity of work • To encourage more of our schools to use SO skills whilst challenging their thinking • To encourage partnerships to subscribe to SOS programme • To model SO skills in our work and in our report writing