Latest School discipline Podcast Episodes
A Hodge Podge of CPS Help
Dr. Ross Greene - December 07, 2021 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsLots of helpful topics covered today including adjusting the model for kids with language difficulties, drilling for information, wording unsolved problems, and more!
Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students
Dr. Ross Greene - November 20, 2017 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOn the first Monday of every month at 3:30 pm Eastern time, from September through May, Dr. Ross Greene and four principals from schools in the U.S. and Canada cover a wide range of topics related to behaviorally challenging students and school discipline in general and Dr. Greene's Collaborative...
The ALSUP Writes Your IEP For You
Dr. Ross Greene - October 10, 2017 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsWell, we finally had our first program of the school year, and our primary focal point -- led by our newest co-host, Heidi O'Leary, Special Education Director in Topsham, Maine -- was on how to write a CPS-flavored IEP, driven by the Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems (ALSUP). Thi...
Are CPS and Applied Behavior Analysis Compatible?
Dr. Ross Greene - May 01, 2017 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsApplied behavior analysis (ABA) is very commonly applied for behaviorally challenging kids in schools these days...but is ABA compatible with CPS? Are we just talking different languages?
Rewards are "Working"? For Who?
Dr. Ross Greene - April 03, 2017 19:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsLots of territory covered on today's program, including a discussion about school values...but at the end of the program we discussed whether reward programs work for anyone in the building. We thought not...
Can Traumatized Kids Participate in Plan B?
Dr. Ross Greene - March 06, 2017 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsKids with trauma histories may need Plan B even more than most, as it's where their concerns are heard and addressed and they begin to feel that they can influence outcomes. Of course, all kids need to feel that way.
Best Thing to Do with Crises? Prevent Them!
Dr. Ross Greene - February 06, 2017 20:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsPardon the repetition, but crisis prevention is far superior to crisis management, and there are lots of things about Collaborative & Proactive Solutions that make crisis prevention more feasible.
Help! This Student is Completely Out of Control!
Dr. Ross Greene - January 09, 2017 20:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsIf a student is highly volatile, unstable, reactive, and unsafe, there are a few things to bear in mind: (1) s/he didn't get that way overnight; (2) there must be many expectations the student is having difficulty meeting; (3) reducing those expectations -- Plan C -- is a very good way to get thi...
When Good Teachers Are Asked to Do Too Much
Dr. Ross Greene - December 05, 2016 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhat happens when class size, systemic issues, and the overwhelming needs of students outstrip a teacher's capacity to respond adaptively? It can't be good...
CPS and the Three Tiers
Dr. Ross Greene - November 07, 2016 20:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsIf your school is implementing PBIS, you may be wondering which "tier" is the best fit for Collaborative & Proactive Solutions. The truth is, CPS is relevant to all three tiers. If that's the case, how important are the tiers?
Waterville Junior High: Let's Roll
Dr. Ross Greene - September 12, 2016 19:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOur first program of the new school year was recorded live at Waterville (Maine) Junior High School, which had massive numbers of disipline referrals, detentions, and suspensions during the 2015-2016 school year. This year, led by principal Carole Gilley and assistant principal Doug Frame, they'l...
Furious About Dysfunctional Discipline
Dr. Ross Greene - May 09, 2016 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOn the last program of the school year, we were able to respond to some callers and some emailers...including one teacher who's very frustrated by her school system's approach to students' challenging behaviors and is having difficulty changing the system on her own.
Does "This is Boring" Mean "I'm Not Motivated"?
Dr. Ross Greene - April 04, 2016 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings"I'm bored" could mean many different things, all of which await discovery in the Empathy step of Plan B. What are the odds that "I'm not motivated" is the student's concern? Slim and none.
School Values
Dr. Ross Greene - March 07, 2016 20:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsMany schools have mission statements, but not an explicit description of values. Many schools have delineated values but don't pay attention to them. But values are what should guide every decision and intervention, so it's a good idea to know what they are.
Something's the Matter with this Picture
Dr. Ross Greene - February 01, 2016 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOn today's program, our panel responded to an email from an anguished teacher who was looking for some guidance on what went wrong with one of her students and his parents.
Fight or Flight Students
Dr. Ross Greene - January 04, 2016 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsAs always, we covered lots of territory on today's program...including how CPS can help students who are in fight or flight mode and how to help kids who have very tough lives outside of school.
That's Not CPS!
Dr. Ross Greene - November 09, 2015 20:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsGoodness, there sure are a lot of ways to stray from the CPS model...and we heard about a lot of them on this program!
Life Without Carrots and Sticks
Dr. Ross Greene - October 05, 2015 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsThose adult-imposed consequences that are so popular in schools these days...do we really need 'em? You can probably guess the answer...
A Classic Case of Dueling Solutions
Dr. Ross Greene - September 21, 2015 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhat happens when parents and teachers skip concerns and jump straight to solutions? Probably nothing good.
What Next for This Challenging Student?
Dr. Ross Greene - May 04, 2015 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOn this final program of the school year, one of our principals told us about a student whose behavioral challenges have been making life very difficult...for himself and her. How best to get things on track?
Why Isn't the CPS Model Being Implemented in Every School?
Dr. Ross Greene - April 06, 2015 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOur principals weighed in on this question...and lots of others.
The Least Toxic Response
Dr. Ross Greene - March 02, 2015 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsSchools abide by a least restrictive environment standard in placing kids in classroom settings...shouldn't schools also adhere to a least toxic response standard in helping students with behavioral challenges?
It's Never "Just" Poor Motivation
Dr. Ross Greene - January 05, 2015 20:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsAre there students who are simply unmotivated to do well, or is it always more complicated than that? Is motivation the engine or the caboose? Alas, this was a very interesting discussion...
Lots to Learn About a Tough New Student
Dr. Ross Greene - December 01, 2014 20:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsSusan described a new student with some interesting and unexpected points of view...and the discussion started rolling from there...
Seismic Shift: Focusing on Problems Rather Than Behaviors
Dr. Ross Greene - October 20, 2014 19:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsDr. Greene and the principals focused on a variety of topics, but probably the biggest: the importance of shifting away from focusing on behaviors (and modifying them) and toward the problems giving rise to those behaviors (and solving them).
Assumption Check
Dr. Ross Greene - September 08, 2014 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsIt's that time of year again...the students are back, and the problems that were unsolved at the end of last school year are probably still unsolved now (except in British Columbia, where school hasn't started yet due to mitigating circumstances). Today's program focused on assumptions about why ...
"Learners" versus "Doers"
Dr. Ross Greene - May 05, 2014 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOur guest on today's program was Tim Graves, Superintendent of Schools and Programs in the Near North District School Board in Ontario, Canada. He has some interesting ideas about the characteristics of schools that successfully implement the CPS model (and those that struggle), and those ideas ...
Four Ways to Improve School Discipline
Dr. Ross Greene - April 07, 2014 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe Educators Panel shared their thoughts on an article that recently appeared in the Christian Science Monitor (click here) in which recommendations for improving school discipline from the Discipline Disparities Collaborative were described. And they had some thoughts on a bunch of other things...
After the Principal's Gone
Dr. Ross Greene - March 03, 2014 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsOn this month's program, the Educators Panel tackled the question of how to ensure that CPS outlives a principal's tenure in the building...and then got an update from (and had some guidance for) Mallett School in Farmington, Maine, one of the schools implementing CPS building-wide.
Plan B Feeds Us Too
Dr. Ross Greene - February 03, 2014 20:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhat's crystal clear is that the CPS model is really helpful for behaviorally challenging (and other) students. But, among the various resounding messages from today's program, it's also clear that educators get a lot out of it too.
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