The Belonging Collective

A blog focused on the research around belonging, connection and relationships in education and their impact on pupil performance and motivation.

Author: Phil Banks

  • Taking the pulse of belonging.

    Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it. H. James Harrington. Having established in my blog, The Belonging Bonus that increased sense of…

  • Why seems a great place to start.

    Simon Sinek said ‘Start with the Why.’ so here we go. Why Belonging, why The Belonging Collective, Why a blog? All very good and valid questions. It seems that Belonging is on every presentation I attend currently, whether it is on behaviour, attendance, educational engagement or special educational needs. In one of her final speeches…