The Empathy Solution
The presentation draws from recent insights in neuroscience, attachment, and neuroplasticity to offer educators a roadmap for transforming school discipline by letting go of a puritanical paradigm, in which children are good or bad and thus should be rewarded or punished, and instead adopting the empathy paradigm, which sees children’s behavior as a way of communicating unmet needs or missing skills—an approach that improves learning and leads to equity and justice.