Connections Over Compliance with Lori Desautels

Dr. Lori Desautels, has been an Assistant Professor at Butler University since 2016 where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. Her passion is engaging her students through the application of neuroscience as it applies to attachment, regulation, educator brain state, and teaching students and staff about their neuro-anatomy thus integrating Mind Brain Teaching, learning principles and strategies into her coursework at Butler. Today I speak with her about her her book Connections Over Compliance Rewiring our perceptions of discipline. If you haven’t read the book, I highly recommend you do it’s.a fabulous read. Enjoy the chat I had with Lori today, If you love it, don’t forget to rate and review!

Lori and I speak about:

Why Lori wrote Connections Over Compliance- Rewiring our Perceptions of Discpline

Why does ‘behaviour management’ start with us?

Why we need to unpack our own generational discipline patterns

Tips for Teachers: How can we support challenging behaviours in the beginning of the school year when we don’t have strong relationships yet?

Morning Meetings

Why we need to teach children about the brain

We can unintentionally escalate children- fight and flight

Why we need to unpack our our trauma, triggers and limiting beliefs

Trauma alters the brain

Moving away from traditional ways of looking at discipline- Power Over

Control is not the end goal when teaching children

Proactive solutions for supporting children- The Takeout Menu

How do we change our approach to children’s behaviour in schools?

Find Lori https://revelationsineducation.com/?v=4096ee8eef7d

Instagram @lori.desautels

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