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

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

What is the Brain Stem?

100

What you offer to others you _______. 

What is "strengthen within yourself?"

100

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

What is Composure?

100

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

What is Safe Place?

200

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

What is impulse control?

200

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

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

200

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

What is Assertiveness?

200

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

What is the Kindness Recorder? 

300

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

What are the Pre-frontal Lobes?

300

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

What is Positive Intent? 

300

You may have to make it up, but attributing _______ to a misbehavior child promotes cooperation. 

What is Positive Intent?

300

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

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

400

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

What are Mirror Neurons?

400

Controlling others is impossible. I can only control this. 

What is myself?

400

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

What are Natural Consequences?

400

These four ingredients are necessary to constitute a connection. 

What is eye contact, touch, presence, and a playful situation. 

500

These are the five executive skills. 

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

500
You must focus on this to change any behavior. 

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

500

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

What are Choices and Empathy?

500

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

What is intrinsic motivation?