Nathan Maynard manages the Behavior Flip blog (among other duties ... like being the Dean of Culture at an inner-city Indiana school and the co-author of a best-selling book titled Hacking School Discipline). Maynard's specialty is studying the behavior of and working with hard-to-reach school children. He has popularized an approach known as restorative justice. His educational training in Behavioral Neuroscience and his experience with at-risk children qualifies him to offer advice about how to reach the difficult-to-reach student.
In this blog article, Maynard offers advice on how to communicate to children who are in crisis mode. Being able to recognize what a student in crisis mode looks like is discussed and the reason that processing does not work with such students is explained. Ways to help the in-crisis student calm down, feel safe, and reach the state of being able to process with reasoning are given. Maynard distinguishes between three mental states, each of which correlates with a region of the brain - the Neocortex (reasoning), the Limbic System (emotions), and the Reptilian Complex (instincts). Maynard advices that adults should never attempt to process and event until the student in-crisis has reached the Neocortex mental state. Learn more about how to reach the unreachable at ...
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