Educator Toolkit for Behaviour

Educator Toolkit for Behaviour 2025

A practical, self-paced course featuring new videos with Sandi Phoenix. Learn to support children’s behaviour and wellbeing using the Phoenix Cups Framework and guidance-based approaches.

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A Revolutionary Course for Children’s Behaviour

Empower yourself and your team with a complete, contemporary framework grounded in humanistic and positive psychology.

This course invites educators and teams to reframe the way they think about children's behaviour. Through engaging video content with new face-to-camera insights from Sandi Phoenix featuring, you’ll access practical strategies, tools, and templates. You’ll also gain guidance on how to lead solution-focused conversations about behavioural challenges with your team, all within the powerful Phoenix Cups Framework.

Now Packed with Fresh, Practical Content

A new and improved version of The Educator Toolkit for Behaviour

Our most popular course since 2016 has had a complete makeover—and we’re thrilled to share the updated version with you! With over 15,000 new words, fresh resources, and 40 minutes of brand-new video content featuring Sandi Phoenix, this course dives deeper into psychology and practical strategies to support children’s behaviour and wellbeing.

We’ve restructured the content for easier navigation, with short, focused video segments that make it simple to revisit key concepts, spark meaningful team discussions, and reflect on the stories and strategies shared throughout the course.

When you enrol, you’ll receive immediate, self-paced access to all content for a full year.

This 100% online course includes:
✔️ On-screen readings
✔️ Downloadable worksheets
✔️ Printable PDF posters
✔️ Face-to-camera videos with Sandi Phoenix
✔️ Reflection activities and templates

A Complete Professional Development Resource

Support educators to implement a meaningful framework for understanding and planning for children's behavioural and social learning.

This course is an essential toolkit for educators and teachers exploring the Phoenix Cups Framework with a shared language and philosophy that helps teams understand human behaviour and guide children’s social and emotional development. Inside, you’ll find practical templates, downloadable resources, and fresh video content, including new insights from Sandi Phoenix, all designed to spark reflection, inspire critical thinking, and drive meaningful change in all education and care settings. Whether you're working independently or alongside a team, this course provides everything you need to approach behaviour support with confidence, compassion, and clarity.

This Course Covers:

Understanding Children's Behaviour

Move beyond traditional ‘behaviour management’ approaches. This course equips educators with a practical framework to better understand and plan for children’s social and emotional learning. You’ll gain access to thoughtfully designed templates and tools that support reflection, critical thinking, and real change in how we support children’s behaviour.
The Phoenix Cups Framework

Discover the foundations of the Phoenix Cups; a powerful framework for understanding human behaviour and meeting basic needs. This essential introduction is perfect for both early childhood and school aged care educators and teachers looking to build a shared philosophy and consistent approach within their teams.
A common language to share with your team

Excite and inspire your teaching team to try something new - that works! This course will provide a common language to easily communicate ideas and strategies with a focus on meeting needs rather than managing behaviours, leading teams to new ways of thinking about children's behaviour.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction
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2. Student walk through video
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3. Acknowledgement to Country
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4. Pre-Questionnaire - Please complete these questions before continuing
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5. Agreement
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6. Preface: How the Phoenix Cups came to be
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7. About the author - Sandi Phoenix
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8. Activity Booklet
9. Critical reflection book download
1. Activity 1 - What is challenging you?
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2. Jacob - the advocate for childhood
3. Activity 2 - How do children learn?
4. What does being storm ready and inclusion readiness have in common?
5. Activity 3 - Watch your language
6. Perspective Poster
7. Activity 4 - Starting the inclusion conversation with your team
1. Behaviour management – What is it?
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2. Behaviourism – where has it come from and how do we use it now?
3. Fun break 1 - Behaviourism timeline
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4. Case study – Behaviourism; the only tool in Emily’s toolkit
5. Activity 5 - Emily’s toolkit
6. Activity 6 - Separate the child from the behaviour
7. Beliefs about children’s behaviour
8. Activity 7 - The influence of the behaviourist movement
9. An alternative to 'Behaviour Management'
10. A timeline of psychology that focuses on human potential and strenghts
11. Activity 8 - Maslow and Glasser’s theories about basic human life needs
12. Activity 9 - Understanding your understanding of human behaviour
13. The need for a framework
1. Introduction to The Phoenix Cups with Sandi Phoenix
2. Introducing The Phoenix Cups® Framework
3. Cup filling behavioural choices
4. The Phoenix Cups overview
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5. The Phoenix Cups - Dominant Cups staffroom poster
6. Your Cups Profile (Big Cups and Small Cups)
7. Activity 10 - Draw your profile
8. Fulfilment (Full and Empty Cups), Will, and Skill
9. Fulfilment posters
10. Nature Vs Nurture
11. Activity 11 - Your Wellbeing Plan
12. Activity 12 - The Phoenix Cups pop quiz
13. The Phoenix Cups posters
14. Phoenix Cups Crossword Puzzle
1. Children are efficient Cup fillers
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2. Noticing Children's Cups with Sandi Phoenix (Hope's Story)
3. Behaviours meet needs Poster
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4. Recognising Empty Cups and Responding with Cup Filling Plans (Seths Story)
5. Meet Jayden
6. Meet Sally
7. Jaydens Story
8. Sally's Story
9. "It's not Fair"
10. Activity 13 - Develop Cup filling plans for children
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11. Four step conversation framework
12. Activity 14 - A solution-focused conversation framework for discussing children’s behaviour
13. Activity 15 - Reflecting on your team meeting
1. Case Study - Sam and Josie
2. Activity 16 - Cup filling strategies in practice
3. Activity 17 - Why is Josie using these behaviours?
4. Connection seeking
5. Case Study - Josie's Connection Plan
6. Activity 18 - Connection Plan
7. A magic ratio
8. Activity 19 - Your interaction ratio
9. Get curious instead of corrective
10. Activity 20 - Say what you see, ask a question
11. So what are they seeking?
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1. Play: A multi-Cup filler poster
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2. The day we met Jet Pack Man - Video
3. The day we met Jet Pack Man
4. Activity 21 - Uninterrupted play
5. What is Flow?
6. Flow Poster
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7. Activity 22 - Your state of flow
8. Activity 23 - Conditions for flow in your childhood play
1. It always seems impossible until it's done poster
2. Critical reflection
3. Activity 24 - That's a good question
4. Reflecting on common Cup-emptying triggers
5. Activity 25 - Reflect
6. Jacob - The advocate for childhood
7. Final Questionnaire
8. Keep in touch with the Phoenix team
9. Bibliography
10. Thank you and Acknowledgements
11. Other Professional and Personal Development Opportunities
12. Need More Cups In Your Life

About this course

$198.00
87 lessons
1 hour of video content

What You’ll Be Doing:

Identifying behavioural challenges and barriers to learning
Reframing language to support positive behaviour guidance
Exploring strategies to intentionally facilitate social and emotional learning
Starting inclusive, strengths-based conversations with your team
Understanding the five basic human life needs through the Phoenix Cups Framework
Completing your own Phoenix Cups Profile to deepen self-awareness
Creating a personalised wellbeing plan for sustainable practice
Developing practical plans to support children’s behavioural and social learning
Identifying moments of flow to enhance engagement and regulation
Using tools and templates to guide critical reflection and continuous improvement

Let's Get Started!

We’re so excited to have you here.

With fresh insights, practical tools, and inspiring content, we know this course will make a real impact on your practice. Jump in and start your learning journey today!

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FAQ

How long will the course take to complete?

We estimate that this course will take you between 5-8 hours to complete. This includes the time taken to go through all of the content and to complete the activity booklet.
How long do I have to access the course?

You will have access to this course for 90 days. This will allow for quality work to be completed each week.
How do I get my certificate?

To receive your certificate, you must click on 'Complete & Continue' on every page of the course. Once you've done this your certificate download button should come up in the top left corner of your course, where the progress bar is.

See why other educators love this course!

Phoenix Cups

cindy scott

excellent ideas easy to follow and understand. keep language positive

Understanding Children's Behaviour

The Phoenix Cups Framework

A common language to share with your team

Getting started...(Includes new video with Sandi Phoenix)

Jacob’s origin story

Pick a side

The Phoenix Cups framework (Includes new video with Sandi Phoenix)

The Phoenix Cups as an approach for educators (with New Videos)

Children are not attention seeking…

Play - a multi-Cup filler

It always seems impossible until it’s done

About this course