The Brain Model

Conscious Discipline empowers us to be conscious of brain-body states in ourselves and children. It then provides us with the practical skills we need to manage our thoughts, feeling and actions. With this ability to self-regulate, we are then able to teach children to do the same.

Classroom Jobs

 This is the School Family Job Board from the Conscious Discipline kit.

Here are some examples of how you can create a school family by allowing them choose the responsibility that they want. 

Creating a School Family

The School Family is built on a healthy family model – the goal of which is the optimal development of all members.

Greetings- Morning Arrival

How To Use Greetings in Your School Entrance

Select a location where you will stand every morning to greet the children. Send the verbal and nonverbal message, “Hello, I’m glad you’re here today!” Props like the greeting apron give children a choice about how they would like to be greeted. For example, you might put images of a butterfly, a hand, a bear and fireworks on an apron. Ask children how they would like to be greeted and then share a playful greeting together. (Make up greetings to go with the images.) A downloadable digital template for a greeting apron is included in the Make-N-Takes section of the Premium Resource Toolkit.

Power of Love - "Becoming the Best You Can Be" Webinar Series - Dr. Becky Bailey

Power of Intention - "Becoming the Best You Can Be" Webinar Series - Dr. Becky Bailey

Classroom Layout

Classroom Arrangement 

Choice Boards

Red or Green Choices

Classroom Management 

In our classroom we use choice boards and they work great! We introduce each red/green choice over a period of time. We discuss the desired behavior and how we can work together as a family to keep everyone safe. The students love the visual idea of seeing the "Choices" not rules. 

Letting the students make their own choices makes the feel apart of the classroom.

Here is an example of the choice board we use. 

Green Choices are the desired behaviors. 

Here are the Red Choices that make the classroom unsafe. 

Choices?

Choices

• Power: Free Will: The only person you can make change is yourself.

• Becoming Brain Smart: Choices motivate from within, improve goal-achievement and facilitate self-regulation.

• Skill: Two positive choices, reframing blame, Parroting technique, Who is the boss of you?

• School Family: Visual Rules

Classroom Management

What is Classroom Management? 

Classroom Management to me is a series of tools and strategies that teachers use to successfully run their classroom. It is where teachers have clear rules and expectations that promote learning as well as consequences.

Here are some examples: 

Here is a rule chart that I use. It is posted by the large group area.  

Here is a rule Chart that the students may come up with. You ask them what classroom rules do they think they need to be safe and write them down. It allows them to be apart of the classroom management system.