A Hidden Epidemic
Our Hierarchical Social Brain
Conscious Discipline as the Answer
Brain State Model
School Family
100
This is modeled when we are calm and things are going our way
What is respect?
100
These two things have profoundly reinvented how we communicate and socialize.
What are computers and telecommunications (texting, social media, etc)
100
Traditional classroom management systems are based on this.
What is control (by the teacher)?
100
What state represents our animal, genetic past and is activated under threat?
What is the Survival State?
100
The person's ability to adapt to the moment, especially stressful moments.
What is resilience?
200
Each classroom and school is this?
What is a culture?
200
Conscious Discipline calls this a community-based learning environment.
What is a school Family?
200
Contrary to traditional classroom management systems, Conscious Discipline is based on what?
What is connection?
200
What is the developmental question for managing the Survival State?
What is "Am I safe"?
200
How do we teach expected behavior in classrooms and schools?
What are routines?
300
To successfully teach this, we must model and demonstrate it in daily life.
What is a life skill?
300
These knee-jerk reactions guide our choices when our minds are preoccupied.
What are impulses?
300
Research studies have shown that the most important in-school factor for learning is...
What is the quality of the student/teacher relationship?
300
What Brain State solves problems?
What is Executive?
300
What is an expression of unity?
What is ritual?
400
About 60 percent of adults report Adverse Childhood Experiences, also known as this.
What is trauma?
400
In past eras, the relationships between people were governed by these.
What are (prescribed) roles between the people.
400
Much of what we believe as teachers comes from this.
What are our experiences as students?
400
What Brain State is a child operating from in when they do not get their way?
What is the Emotional State?
400
What is the key to building successful schools?
What is building a School Family?
500
Nearly this percentage of children in the US lived in poverty in 2013.
What is 25 percent?
500
This skill-based program is all about helping educators resolve conflicts, enhance brain development by creating optimal learning environments, support self-regulation, and help children build respectful relationships with themselves, peers, parents and each other.
What is Conscious Discipline?
500
Due to this, children will use the same skills they see parents and teachers apply.
What is a mirror neuron system?
500
As teachers, what Brain State must we remain in?
What is the Executive State?
500
The ultimate goal of the School Family is to provide an environment where all members spend more time in what brain state?
What is "Executive"?
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