Running the School

Teachers run rooms, and leaders run schools. But schools are much more than just rooms in a row, and running them is a complex business. And if the behaviour isn't right, then nothing else is. Which makes it vital that leaders are trained to manage behaviour at the institutional level, but too many have to reinvent the wheel for themselves. No more. Using his experience of visiting over 1200 schools in 16 countries, Tom has distilled the wisdom of hundreds of experts into this concise guide to creating the culture of a school so that all students - and staff - flourish: Running the School.

Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that aims to raise research literacy in education and campaigns for better evidence awareness worldwide. It now holds events globally, attracting thousands of followers and generating discussion and change in schools throughout the world. In 2015, Tom became the UK government's school behaviour tsar, advising on behaviour policy as well as chairing the Mental Health in Schools panel. He has written five books about teacher training and in 2015 was longlisted as one of the world's top teachers in the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize. In the same year he was listed as one of The Huffington Post's top 10 global teacher bloggers. Tom is the director of Tom Bennett Training, which works exclusively with the most disadvantaged students and schools in England, helping them to turn around, and he is a teacher-fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His online resources have been viewed more than 1,200,000 times. Tom was appointed OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for his significant contribution to education.