If you are an educator, school administrator, parent, camp counsellor, or employer, chances are you've had experience with challenging behaviours.

So often, we focus on crisis-management and behaviour-modification to attempt to make challenging behaviours "go away," but as we know, sticker charts and reward systems do little to encourage intrinsic motivation and, furthermore, do not address the underlying problems that cause the problematic behaviours. 

I sat down with Dr. Ross Greene this summer to discuss his Collaborative and Proactive Solutions model in order to learn how we can solve some of the most challenging school behaviours. 

Here are some things we discuss: 

The Four Main Philosophies that guide Collaborative Proactive Solutions:

The Three Main "Umbrella" Lagging Skills

Inclusion through the lens of teaching lagging skills and taking an empathic approach to adapting to problems integrating 100% of the time within the classroom for 100% of tasks

**The Most Important Skill for an educator to lead with **

**A Step-by-Step Framework to Implement CPS  **

A Real World Example of CPS in Action: Dr. Greene takes us through a step-by-step example of the process

**Dr. Ross Greene answers 2 audience questions related to: **

Teen peer pressure

Dr. Ross Greene's book recommendation: Sara Laurence Lightfoot's The Essential Conversation

Dr. Ross W. Greene is the author of Raising Human Beings, Lost and Found, Lost at School, and The Explosive Child. Dr. Greene was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over twenty years, and is now founding director of the nonprofit organization Lives in the Balance (LivesintheBalance.org), through which he disseminates the model of care—now called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions—described in his books. Dr. Greene’s research has been funded by the US Department of Education, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the Maine Juvenile Justice Advisory Group. He speaks widely throughout the world.