How can I build my conscious discipline skills?
Build your Conscious Discipline skills with flexible e-learning options including newly updated and expanded Conscious Discipline online courses, webinars and our podcast, “ Real Talk for Real Teachers ,” with award-winning author and educator Dr. Becky Bailey.
What is conscious discipline?
Conscious Discipline is a proven, comprehensive approach that empowers you with skills that create a safe, connected, problem-solving environment for families.
What is the Conscious discipline rage program?
The Conscious Discipline rage program includes working with the child to create a “Yucky Feeling Book,” providing opportunities for the child to move, and taking action to keep other children in the classroom safe. Know your own triggers and how to actively calm yourself so you can offer your best in situations that involve rage.
What are the 3 core components of Conscious Discipline?
These sections are Safety, Connection and Problem-solving. Each chapter within these three sections focuses on one skill to discipline children, one power for conscious adults, current brain information and how to build your School Family.
What are the four components of Conscious Discipline?
Dr. Bailey's Conscious Discipline Brain Smart Start consists of four activities designed to get children and adults in the optimal brain state for learning and problem-solving. These components include an activity to Unite, an activity to Disengage Stress, an activity to Connect and an activity to Commit.
What are the seven components of Conscious Discipline?
The Seven Skills of Conscious Discipline are Composure, Encouragement, Assertiveness, Choices, Empathy, Positive Intent and Consequences.
What is the Conscious Discipline method?
Conscious Discipline utilizes everyday events to cultivate emotional intelligence through a self-regulation program that integrates social-emotional learning and discipline.
Who is Dr Becky Bailey?
Dr. Becky Bailey is an award-winning author, renowned educator and internationally recognized expert in childhood education and developmental psychology.
What is a Brain Smart Start?
The Conscious Discipline Brain Smart Start of the day consists of four activities: An activity to unite, an activity to connect, an activity to disengage stress and an activity to commit. Each of these activities is based on scientific research about optimal brain function and mind-body states.
Does Conscious Discipline really work?
Yes. Conscious Discipline utilizes effective consequences by first building a foundation of safety, connection, and teaching missing skills.
How do you explain Conscious Discipline to parents?
Conscious Discipline teaches adults to control their own emotional responses to children so they can stay present at the moment, connect with the child, and then work through the feelings the child is having together.
Is Conscious Discipline trauma informed?
Conscious Discipline is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach.
What age is Conscious Discipline for?
The Conscious Discipline Parent Education Curriculum is designed for centers serving children from birth through five years old. It features sixteen hours of training content and addresses three key points of contact with families: Parent Nights, Home Visits, and targeted Mini Sessions.
What is the pyramid model?
What is the Pyramid Model? The Pyramid Model is a conceptual framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children's healthy social and emotional development.
Who invented Conscious Discipline?
Becky A. BaileyBecky Bailey, Conscious Discipline Founder. Becky A. Bailey, Ph. D., is an award-winning author, renowned teacher and internationally recognized expert in childhood education and developmental psychology.
What is conscious discipline?
Conscious Discipline, a 25-year leader in the field of social-emotional learning (SEL), and Sargent Rehabilitation Center’s Regional Resource Center have entered a partnership that will unite schools, parents, and community SEL services state-wide. The penetration of SEL into Rhode Island schools meets many Biden Administration priorities for education, which include providing increased services during the early childhood years, equity in education, increased mental health services, community school outreach, and investing in “resources for our schools so students grow into physically and emotionally healthy adults.”
What is a CD PEC?
The Conscious Discipline Parent Education Curriculum (CD PEC) has been designated research-based by a team of independent reviewers. With the research-based designation, PEC fulfills the parent curriculum criteria outlined by the Office of Head Start.
Why is conscious discipline important?
Conscious Discipline is rooted in the belief that connection is the key to cooperation and that children need discipline, not punishment. Effective discipline requires us to recognize behavior as communication and to see misbehavior as ...
What is effective discipline?
Effective discipline requires us to recognize behavior as communication and to see misbehavior as a skill deficit rather than a sign of disrespect. In response, we teach the skills and strategies children need to regulate their own behavior for a lifetime—not just when someone is watching. In this podcast, you’ll hear from Christiaan Baarsma, who ...
How does punishment affect children?
Punishment does not teach internal control of one’s own behavior (self-regulation), and our most vulnerable children are punished at disproportionately high rates.
What are the effects of punishment?
Research shows that when children are physically or verbally punished, effects include increased child aggression, increased antisocial behavior, reduced academic achievement, decreased quality of relationships, and mental health problems.
What was Christiaan's transformation?
Christiaan transformed the school’s “punishment room” into a “connection room.”. He replaced the system of punishment and rewards with a Conscious Discipline-inspired system based on connection, safety and empathy. Listen in to learn more about how Christiaan led this shift—and how school culture was transformed.
When Christiaan first implemented Conscious Discipline, most children arrived in the survival state.?
Today, after making connections and learning self-regulatory strategies, most come to the room in the emotional state. The school feels safer, and children are more willing to ask for help.
Does punishment teach self regulation?
Punishment also fails to teach internal control of one’s own behavior (al so known as self-regulation). A child who is punished may learn to control or hide a behavior when they are being watched, but they will not learn to regulate their own behavior when no one is watching (and the threat of punishment is removed).
Podcasts
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What is conscious discipline?
This award-winning 10-session online course will guide you through the core methodology of Conscious Discipline, a leader in brain-based social-emotional learning that’s proven to build resilience in children, families, educators and schools.
What is Becky Bailey's podcast?
In each episode, Dr. Bailey talks with a different expert to offer you tips, guidance and humor, empowering you to increase behavioral and academic results . Education has many challenges ahead and Dr. Bailey is here with some real talk to make your journey easier and more fun.” A veteran teacher and creator of Conscious Discipline, Dr. Bailey’s work has impacted an estimated 15.8M children over 20 years.
Episode Summary
Essential Takeaways
- When children are angry, we can use deep breathing strategies and the Safe Place to coach them in changing their state from upset to calm. Children who are in rage need to move. They also need to b...
- Children who are fully in rage become unusually strong, are unable to communicate with words, and have a blank expression in their eyes. When children are angry, they are still able t…
- When children are angry, we can use deep breathing strategies and the Safe Place to coach them in changing their state from upset to calm. Children who are in rage need to move. They also need to b...
- Children who are fully in rage become unusually strong, are unable to communicate with words, and have a blank expression in their eyes. When children are angry, they are still able to speak, and t...
- Restraining children is sometimes necessary for safety. However, it can make matters worse, since children who are in rage need movement. In addition, as children get older, restraining them will b...
- The Conscious Discipline rage program includes working with the child to create a “Yucky Fe…
Steps For Tomorrow
- Know your own triggers and how to actively calm yourself so you can offer your best in situations that involve rage. Don’t take the child’s rage personally. The behavior is not happening to you; it...
- Talk to the child when they are calm and take pictures, then create the child’s Yucky Feeling Book.
- Know your own triggers and how to actively calm yourself so you can offer your best in situations that involve rage. Don’t take the child’s rage personally. The behavior is not happening to you; it...
- Talk to the child when they are calm and take pictures, then create the child’s Yucky Feeling Book.
- Review the book with the child every day. If possible, make a copy to send home as well. You’re helping the child rewire their brain to handle rage differently, so remember that this process requir...
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Show Outline
- :22 What is Conscious Discipline?
- 1:05 Rage vs. anger
- 3:47 Interventions for rage vs. interventions for anger
- 6:44 Introduction of guest Kim Jackson
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