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A Hodge Podge of CPS Help

Dr. Ross Greene - December 07, 2021 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Lots of helpful topics covered today including adjusting the model for kids with language difficulties, drilling for information, wording unsolved problems, and more!

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RJN! discusses Racism in Kentucky, Brianna Taylor, and Education Justice with Jecorey Arthur

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - October 15, 2020 14:22 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Jecorey Arthur is the youngest elected official in the history of the Louisville Kentucky city council. Racial Justice NOW! sits down with Jecorey to discuss racism, politics, and his work as an educator and musician.

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Montgomery County Maryland Considers removal of SRO Program

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - October 07, 2020 23:22 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Racial Justice NOW! DMV Project Director, Carolyn Lowery, interviews Montgomery County, MD Councilman Will Jawando who supports removal of SROs from the school district. Jawando is a leader of police reform and outspoken on the need for policing changes.

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Question and Answer with new RJN! DMV Project Director Carolyn Lowery

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - August 22, 2020 17:11 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Carolyn Lowery gives insights during a question and answer session about her 20 years of experience in organizing, advocacy and policy change. She shares insights from her past work and her plans for the work she currently leads in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

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Is there a new COINTEL Program for U.S. Public Schools Part 3 of 4

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - January 30, 2020 15:53 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
H.A. Jabar continues the series on the big data era, predictive analytics, algorithms and Behavioral Threat Assements in public schools and in Maryland. He interviews CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Adam Jackson from Baltimore, Maryland.

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Is there a new COINTEL Program for U.S. Public Schools Part 2 of 4

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - January 24, 2020 17:51 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
H.A. Jabar continues the series on the big data era, predictive analytics, algorithms and Behavioral Threat Assements in public schools and in Maryland. He interviews CEO of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, Dayvon Love.

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Data Collection and the "Big Data Era" enter into the public school system

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - November 13, 2019 14:54 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
H.A. Jabar interviews Marika Pfeferkorn from Twin Cities Innovation Alliance & the Coalition to Stop the Cradle to Prison Algorithm. She successfully organized to dissolve a “joint powers” agreement around big data, predictive analytics & algorithms in MN

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Is there a new COINTEL Program for U.S. Public Schools, Interview with Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - September 08, 2019 21:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director H.A. Jabar interviews Lawrence Grandpre of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). They discuss a new phenomenon sweeping through schools across the country: Behavioral Threat Assessments and Predictive Data Analytics.

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The O.G. Organizer Breaks Down the Parts of the School to Plantation Pipeline

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - September 04, 2019 16:09 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Racial Justice NOW! Director H.A. Jabar talks with Jitu Brown of the Journey for Justice Alliance. They peel back the layers of a corrupt system and give listeners a real peek into how the machinery of oppression works through the institutions of society.

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What is Education Justice? What is the Education Justice Movement?

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE - March 20, 2019 16:37 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Racial Justice NOW! Director H.A. Jabar explains the education justice movement in detail. He digs deep into why grassroots organizers have increased and aligned their work to end the school to prison pipeline and to fight for equity in education.

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Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students

Dr. Ross Greene - November 20, 2017 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
On 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...

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The ALSUP Writes Your IEP For You

Dr. Ross Greene - October 10, 2017 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Well, 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...

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Are CPS and Applied Behavior Analysis Compatible?

Dr. Ross Greene - May 01, 2017 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Applied 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?

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Rewards are "Working"? For Who?

Dr. Ross Greene - April 03, 2017 19:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Lots 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...

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Can Traumatized Kids Participate in Plan B?

Dr. Ross Greene - March 06, 2017 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Kids 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.

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Best Thing to Do with Crises? Prevent Them!

Dr. Ross Greene - February 06, 2017 20:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Pardon 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.

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Help! This Student is Completely Out of Control!

Dr. Ross Greene - January 09, 2017 20:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
If 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...

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When Good Teachers Are Asked to Do Too Much

Dr. Ross Greene - December 05, 2016 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
What 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...

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CPS and the Three Tiers

Dr. Ross Greene - November 07, 2016 20:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
If 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?

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Waterville Junior High: Let's Roll

Dr. Ross Greene - September 12, 2016 19:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Our 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...

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Furious About Dysfunctional Discipline

Dr. Ross Greene - May 09, 2016 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
On 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.  

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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.

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School Values

Dr. Ross Greene - March 07, 2016 20:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Many 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.

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Something's the Matter with this Picture

Dr. Ross Greene - February 01, 2016 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
On 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.

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Fight or Flight Students

Dr. Ross Greene - January 04, 2016 20:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
As 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.

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That's Not CPS!

Dr. Ross Greene - November 09, 2015 20:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Goodness, there sure are a lot of ways to stray from the CPS model...and we heard about a lot of them on this program!

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Life Without Carrots and Sticks

Dr. Ross Greene - October 05, 2015 19:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Those adult-imposed consequences that are so popular in schools these days...do we really need 'em? You can probably guess the answer...

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A Classic Case of Dueling Solutions

Dr. Ross Greene - September 21, 2015 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
What happens when parents and teachers skip concerns and jump straight to solutions? Probably nothing good.  

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What Next for This Challenging Student?

Dr. Ross Greene - May 04, 2015 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
On 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?

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Why Isn't the CPS Model Being Implemented in Every School?

Dr. Ross Greene - April 06, 2015 19:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 28 ratings
Our principals weighed in on this question...and lots of others.

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