Beyond Discipline

Teachers can set self-fulfilling prophecies in motion....Assume the best of students, get best from students!

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• Set Reasonable Expectations
• Revise cirricular often
• understand that a *bad choice* may be lack of skill set rather than deliberate defiance

once an adult is seen only as an enforcer, the caring alliance between adult and child is significantly compromised

Sending a child away does not fix whatever the problem was; it drives a wedge, pushing people in opposite directions (some relieved, some opressed)

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