Connections Over Compliance

Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline

Lori L. Desautels, PhD

• Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781948018890
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Counseling

The developing brains of our children need to "feel" safe. Children who carry chronic behavioral challenges are often met with reactive and punitive practices that can potentially reactivate the developing stress response systems. This book deeply addresses the need for co-regulatory and relational touch point practices, shifting student-focused behavior management protocols to adult regulated brain and body states which are brain aligned, preventive, and relational discipline protocols. This new lens for discipline benefits all students by reaching for sustainable behavioral changes through brain state awareness rather than compliance and obedience.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Advance Praise
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Foreword
• #1 A Pandemic Crisis Calls for a Re-Envisioning and an Opportunity in Our Educational Systems
• #2 Our Brain’s Development and the Impact of Implicit Bias and Racial Disparities and Discipline Gaps in Our Schools
• Chapter 1: A Journey Through Discipline
• Chapter 2: Student Behaviors Start with You!
• Chapter 3: The Masks of Pain and the Power of Regulation
• Chapter 4: Touch Points Are Maps to Connections
• Chapter 5: Brain-Aligned Preventive Discipline: Putting it All Together!
• Chapter 6: Early Childhood Brain-Aligned Preventive Discipline
• Resource Section
• Gratitudes
• Endnotes
• About the Editor
• About the Author