At Lancaster Early Education Center, we use Conscious Discipline to support the social/emotional development of the children in our care. Our goal is to create supportive, loving environments that nurture and enrich young learners, creating a home away from home by embedding children in a school family.
What is Conscious Discipline?
Conscious Discipline is a framework trauma-informed, social/emotional learning that can be implemented with all ages. At LEEC we use this framework and supporting materials in all of our classrooms. The framework uses an adult-first model, meaning that adults first must focus on and embody the skills in themselves that they are teaching to children.
The Four Key Components of Conscious Discipline
Conscious Discipline is based on four key components:
- The conscious discipline brain state model
- The seven powers for conscious adults
- Creating the school family
- The seven skills of discipline.
The Brain State Model- Provides a model for brain/body connections. The model recognizes three basic brain/body states that are likely to produce certain behaviors. Intentional state-specific responses enable access to advanced skills.
The seven powers for Conscious Adults is about shifting perception and views of conflict. Self-regulation is considered a precursor for teaching or working with any child. Creating the school family creates a supportive, caring environment for children and adults.
Creating a supportive community that reinforces shared values create an environment of care and love that allows for everyone to thrive. A school family environment is created through routines, structures and rituals.
The seven skills of discipline focus on transforming everyday discipline issues into teachable moments. Focusing in an intentional way on these moments equips children with the social emotional skills and needed to support development of healthy social skills and self-regulation.
Conscious Discipline at Lancaster Early Education Center
The team at LEEC has received extensive training in the Conscious Discipline methodology and implementation in the classroom. This approach resonates as a way to support children in an authentic manner as they develop skills they will use throughout life and avoids the “tips and tricks” method of eliminating unwanted behaviors in favor of a long-term approach focused on supporting healthy development. We encourage parents to learn more about this framework and methodology and how they can use it at home to support their child’s social/emotional development and reinforce concepts used at school. To learn more about Conscious Discipline please visit- https://consciousdiscipline.com/methodology/
