Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students (and, While You're At It, All the Others) (J-B Ed: Reach and Teach) - Hardcover

Greene, Ross W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118898575 ISBN 13: 9781118898574

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Author

"I wrote Lost & Found as a followup to Lost at School...it provides a lot of the technical information that I couldn't include in Lost at School, along with commentary from educators who've been implementing the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model in their schools. I really wanted to make sure their voices were heard. They make it clear that transforming the ways in which we treat our most vulnerable students is not only doable but also absolutely crucial." -- Ross Greene

From the Back Cover

Praise for LOST & FOUND:
"Dealing with challenging behaviors? The first goal is to alter your lenses, to understand that challenging behavior is the result of lagging skills. The second is to start solving problems together and teaching those skills. Lost & Found is a must read."
-- MICHELLE GARCIA WINNER, MA-CCC, speech language pathologist; founder, Social Thinking  
"Lost & Found gives readers lots of examples for how Dr. Ross Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) process works--and how to avoid pitfalls--at every step of the way. The process he describes is the best way to engage kids and adults in mutual problem solving that, at its core, removes blame and replaces it with respect."
-- PEG DAWSON, EdD, NCSP, co-author, Smart but Scattered and Smart but Scattered Teens
"For those perplexed by how to positively support students with challenging behavior, Lost & Found is a game changer. Greene brings a fresh perspective on the subject and clearly articulates the essentials to get everyone on the upswing."-- LEAH KUYPERS, MA, occupational therapist; author, The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control  
"Ross Greene's CPS model encourages school staff to look at behaviorally challenging students from a new frame of reference: kids are very capable of providing information about why they're having difficulty meeting certain expectations; they're eager to partner with adults in solving the problems that are affecting their lives; and they're capable of developing new skills. Lost & Found provides the tools to help schools abandon old, toxic ways of responding to challenging behavior."
-- DEBRA THIBODEAU, MEd, CAS, school counselor, Georgetown, ME  
"Throughout Lost & Found, the voices of educators are a testament to how this simple, research-based process, done with rigor, results in changing beliefs, practices, and school cultures. Ross Greene should be considered a living, international treasure."
-- PEGGY BLAIR, superintendent of education, Avon Maitland District School Board, Ontario, Canada 

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1118898575
• ISBN 13: 9781118898574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224