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Conscious Discipline’s Ultimate Resource Guide for Teachers for 2025

  We love teachers! Whether you are new to Conscious Discipline or a seasoned practitioner, we’ve cultivated a list of useful resources and implementation tools to help educators of...

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Elevate with Becky

Elevate Spotlight: Embracing Possibilities with Dr. Becky Bailey

Dr. Becky Bailey is a force for change in education. More than 25 years ago, Becky’s mission to improve the lives of educators, children and families coalesced into Conscious...

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From Shame on You to I Love You: How Eliminating Punishments and Rewards Increases Student Engagement

Byline: Jenny Shannon If you Google “How to motivate students” it generates a staggering 633,000,000 pieces of content. Though student motivation is at the forefront of every educator’s mind,...

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Potty Mastery Achieves Award Winning Status

Byline: Jenny Shannon Just announced! Conscious Discipline’s Potty Mastery: A Child Centered Approach to Toileting book by Joan Morgenstern took home top honors from two publications this month. Creative...

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Funding After ESSER: Resources to Fund Conscious Discipline Implementation

Byline: Jenny Shannon Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds were established under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. These funds were meant to provide...

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A multi-ethnic group of elementary age children are laughing while their teacher reads them a book during story time.

Bridging The Worlds of Reading and Literacy

 Byline: Jenny Shannon Teacher, Conscious Discipline Action Team (CDAT) leader, and longtime Conscious Discipline Instructor Jennie Gries and children’s author Andrew Newman of Conscious Stories are some of the...

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Open Book

An Author-in-Residence with Conscious Discipline

Byline: Jenny Shannon Teacher, Conscious Discipline Action Team (CDAT) leader, and longtime Conscious Discipline Instructor Jennie Gries seemed destined to intertwine paths with Andrew Newman, a children’s book author,...

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child and teacher

Stories from the Field: A Lifetime of Learning with the Feeling Buddies

Byline: Jenny Spencer  Conscious Discipline’s reach has spanned world-wide for close to 30 years. With evidence-based, trauma-responsive practices, our clients have reported as much as a 45% decrease in...

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