Brain Research
Powers of Self-Control
Discipline Skills
School Family
200

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

What is the Brain Stem?

200

What you offer to others, you ___________.

What is "strengthen within yourself?"

200

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

What is Composure?

200

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

What is the Safe Place?

400

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

What is Impulse Control?

400

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

What is "placed in charge of you" or "given your power away to?"

400

Teaching children to use their BIG Voice involves teaching this skill.

What is Assertiveness?

400

This School Family job is designed to facilitate and shift our attention by noticing kind acts. 

What is the Kindness Recorder?

600

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

What are the Pre-frontal Lobes?

600

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

What is Positive Intent?

600
You may have to make it up, but attributing (blank) to a misbehaving child promotes cooperation.

What is Positive Intent?

600

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

What is "keep it safe" or "the Safekeeper?"

800

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

What are Mirror Neurons?

800

Controlling others is impossible. I can only control this.

What is myself?

800

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

What are Natural Consequences?

800

These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection.

What is eye contact, touch, presence, and a playful situtation?

1000
These are five executive skills.

What are Empathy, Impulse Control, Working Memory, Prioritization, Organization and Time Management?

1000

You must focus on this to change any behavior.

What is "what you want?" (Instead of what you don't want.)

1000

These two skills are most helpful when you discern a child's emotional state.

What are Choices and Empathy?

1000

The School Family structure provides this type of motivation in your classroom.

What is intrinsic motivation?