Instead of focusing on getting our more challenging students to comply with adult directives, we can work towards improving flexibility and frustration tolerance so these same students can start learning lifelong skills! By exploring The Explosive Child by Dr. Ross Greene (via the book, a specific podcast episode and through exploration of www.livesinthebalance.org), we will attempt to switch our age old thinking that children choose poor behavior.  Instead we will look at Greene’s idea that children do well when they can. While the original concept is geared toward parents, this paradigm shift is applicable and crucial for all educators and school personnel. Explore a learning environment that is truly led with empathy.

Required Text:

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding & Parenting Easily Frustrated Chronically Inflexible Children (6th edition) by Ross Greene

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Explore the concepts presented in The Explosive Child and apply those concepts to classroom relationships and management.
• Use a variety of methods to recognize and then manage a students’ inflexibility and frustration intolerance. 
• Distinguish between Dr. Greene’s Plan A, Plan B and Plan C and be able to properly choose a method for individual circumstances and students. 
• Analyze, synthesize, reflect, and respond to case studies and questions directly related to Dr. Ross Greene’s Collaborate and Proactive Sollutions
• Summarize and analyze the course topics in a final course reflection