Brain Research
Powers for Self-Control
Discipline Skills
School Family
100

This system of the brain is associated with survival and safety. 

The Brain Stem

100

What you offer to others, you____

Strengthen within yourself.

100

Developing this skill will help you managage your own upset when your buttons are pushed. 

Composure. 

100

This Conscious Discipline structure is designed to assist children in changing their inner state from upset to calm. 

The Safe Space/Place

200

Connection between adults and children literally wires the brain for this.

Impulse control.

200

Whomever you have placed in charge of your feelings, you have 

Placed in charge of you or given your power away to. 

200

Teaching children to use their BIG voice involves teaching them this skill. 

Assertiveness


200

Everyone in the class should have one of these

A Job

300

This part of the brain acts as the CEO and allows us to access our executive skills.

Pre-Frontal Lobes. 

300

We attribute this when we choose to "see the best" in others. 

Positive Intent

300

What kind of choices can help children up-shift from the emotional state to the executive state?

2 Positive

300

This is the teacher's primary job in Conscious Discipline.

Keep it safe/ be the safe keeper

400

These neurons allow us to download our internal states into one another. 

Mirror Neurons. 

400

Controlling others is impossible. I can only control this. 

Myself

400

This is the most effective discipline skill for learning cause and effect. 

Natural Consequence 

400

These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection. 

Eye contact, touch, a playful situation, presence.
500

What you focus on____

You get more of.

500

You must focus on this to change any behavior

What you want.
500

When a child is in the safety state, what is the first thing you do to?

Compose yourself

500

The school family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom

Intrinsic motivation