Lost and Found : Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students (And, While You're at It, All the Others)

A practical, compassionate, effective approach to helping students with behavioral challenges. Lost & Found is a follow-up to Dr. Ross Greene's landmark works, The Explosive Child and Lost at School, providing educators with highly practical, explicit guidance on implementing his evidence-based Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model with behaviorally-challenging students. While the first two books described Dr. Greene's non-punitive, non-adversarial approach and described implementation on a macro level, Lost & Found provides more explicit details on key facets of the CPS model, including using the Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems and solving problems collaboratively (and coaching others to do so). Readers will learn how to incorporate students' input in understanding the factors making it difficult for them to meet expectations and in generating mutually satisfactory solutions. Specific strategies, sample dialogues, and time-tested advice help educators implement these techniques immediately. The groundbreaking CPS approach has been a revelation for parents and educators of behaviorally-challenging children. This book gives educators the concrete guidance they need to immediately begin working more effectively with these students. Implement CPS one-on-one or with an entire class Work collaboratively with students to solve problems Study sample dialogues of CPS in action Change the way difficult students are treated The discipline systems used in most K-12 schools are obsolete, and aren't working for the kids to whom they're most often applied: those with behavioral challenges. Lost & Found provides a roadmap to a different paradigm, helping educators radically transform the way they go about helping their most challenging students.