The first three minutes
How you start a lesson decides how it ends. The specific moves that set the room up before the register.
Small, repeatable, and boring — which is exactly why they work.
Calm room. Sharp pupils.
A calm, practical course on classroom culture. Not compliance for its own sake — behaviour that makes real learning possible. Routines, relationships, and repair when it goes wrong.

How you start a lesson decides how it ends. The specific moves that set the room up before the register.
Small, repeatable, and boring — which is exactly why they work.
The five routines every English classroom needs, and how to teach them without a two-week detour on 'expectations'.
Routines are the invisible scaffolding of a great lesson. Get them right and the actual teaching gets much easier.
The two-minute conversation that turns a difficult pupil into an ally — and the mistakes that turn them into a nemesis.
You will lose your temper. Every teacher does. This is the routine that pulls things back.
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