Reframing Classroom Discipline

Insights for Educators: Supporting Mental Wellness with Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD - Episode 4, Reframing Classroom Discipline Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD - Principal of the Neurosequential Network - discusses why punitive, exclusionary and contingency-based disciplinary models in schools may be having the exact opposite effect they are intended to on students. He reframes discipline in the context of the neurobiology of distress and reward, proposing alternative tactics for educators and administrators.