article_snippet: Dame Sally Coates, pictured at Dame Sally Coates home in Twickenham, London, said parents need to strike a balance between being too strict and too soft with parents children .
article_snippet: Dame Sally Coates has been widely praised for Dame Sally Coates no-nonsense approach to discipline and for turning around Burlington Danes Academy in White City, London (pictured) Dame Sally Coates,  who turned around Burlington Danes Academy in White City, London, and has been widely praised for Dame Sally Coates no-nonsense approach to discipline, says parents are often too quick to get into a battle with the child's school when a child misbehaves. '
article_snippet: Dame Sally Coates Dame Sally Coates has spent 40 years working in challenging schools and is currently director of the education charity United Learning's southern academies.
article_snippet: During Dame Sally Coates time as head of some of London's toughest schools, Dame Sally Coates says Dame Sally Coates was always adamant on seeing parents alone if there was a problem: 'Parents should work with the child's school.
article_snippet: Dame Sally, who has just published a new book, Headstrong, on school leadership says the importance of good parenting in early childhood shouldn't be underestimated.
article_snippet: Dame Sally, who has just published a new book, Headstrong, on school leadership says the importance of good parenting in early childhood shouldn't be underestimated . '
article_snippet: Headstrong: 11 Lessons of School Leadership, by Dame Sally Coates
highlights_snippet: Dame Sally Coates turned around Burlington Danes School in West London, leading it from failing to an 'outstanding' Ofsted rating .
  