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Oct 2021
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23 - Beyond Discipline - From Compliance...

Andy Jacks
About this episode

Every once in a while, it takes a radical approach to take down the most misguided educational traditions that we face in our work. Join Dr. Andy Jacks and education guru Alfie Kohn in an engaging discussion that breaks down some of ways to do just that in education as a whole and in school discipline. Topics include: 

(1) The failure myth 

(2) Analyzing task vs behavior 

(3) Rethinking our goals in education and fighting the status quo

(3) Using community of the whole to improve the individual

Alfie Kohn is a highly regarded and award-winning author and speaker on human behavior, education, and parenting. Two of his 14 books are essential to school discipline:  

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes 

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

You can connect with Alfie on social media @alfiekohn and learn more on his website www.alfiekohn.org. Make sure to follow him on Twitter where he regularly posts his ideas and challenges to the status quo. 

Learn more at andyjacks.com and check out Andy's Free Resource Library. Share what you think about this episode on social media with Andy @_AndyJacks. Buy Andy's book Discipline Win: Strategies to improve behavior, increase ownership, and give every student a chance now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. #DisciplineWin

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