Relational practice, rooted in lived experience and real classrooms.

I didn’t grow up as the “ideal student.”

I was smart and curious, but I was also dealing with a lot at home. I talked back, pushed boundaries and played the clown. Not because I didn’t care about learning - but because I didn’t feel seen, challenged or understood.

Some adults wrote me off.

A few didn’t.

My form tutor, my PE teacher, my English teacher and one patient maths teacher chose to see past the behaviour. They held boundaries, but they did it with care, consistency and belief.

Those relationships genuinely changed my life.

I went from being the student who nearly got permanently excluded, to becoming:

• • • a Teacher of Creative Arts

    • someone young people seek out when they feel overwhelmed

    • and now, an education consultant helping staff build the same kind of relationships that once held me.

The Doozie Educator exists because I know - first-hand - that when relationships change, behaviour does too.

After years working across mainstream, PRU, SEMH and alternative settings, I kept seeing the same pattern:

• • • staff were doing their best, but burning out

    • behaviour systems were heavy on sanctions, light on relationships

    • pupils with the greatest needs were often the least understood

    • schools wanted change, but didn’t have practical, relational tools

No one was giving staff the mindset, language and strategies they needed to feel genuinely confident with behaviour.

I started The Doozie Educator to change that - with training and support that is:

• • • honest and grounded

    • practical and realistic

    • relational and trauma-informed

    • rooted in lived experience, not just theory

Everything I deliver - from CPD to coaching to consultancy - is built around five core pillars: