Composure is key to entering disciplinary situations. Emotions are contagious and teachers want students to "catch" their calmness.

Emotions are the backbone of cognition and memory. Teachers should cultivate positive emotions and attend to the distress of their students.

Students' misbehavior drops when they actively do learning rather than receiving it. They also need a chance to process new information.

Teachers can plug students into learning by utilizing the five facets of student motivation into their instructional design.

Rather than focusing on everything that went wrong, reflection can be improved by focusing on the bright spots and expanding on those.

Through planned instances or peer observations, reflections are a powerful tool to increase our efficiency in the classroom.

Teachers can pivot in stressful situations by acknowledging student intentions, clarifying missing skills, and taking time to practice.

When teachers ascribe positive intentions to misbehavior and focus on solutions (not problems), they help move students toward a resolution.

Misbehavior can be perceived from different perspectives. A healthy viewpoint would be to see the situations as opportunities for growth.

The intentions teachers have when entering disciplinary situations precede them like a bow wave, setting the tone for everything to follow.

Mindfulness allows us to accept each moment without judgment and quiet the storm that threatens to blow us away in hectic situations.

Students develop executive skills when they are taught through powerful metaphors and given de-structured time to make choices.

Important social skills like peer resolution and learning to be guided by an internal compass are key to reducing classroom disruptions.

Students can learn to self-regulate through the power of breathing, learning about the hand model of the brain, and using a glitter jar.

Teachers gain confidence in their classrooms with they intentionally focus on resonance, which is the interplay between flow and presence.

Teachers gain confidence when they quiet their negative thoughts, know their limits, and increase their instructional competence.

Teachers can use words to quiet emotions, offer two positive choices, and offer perspective taking to help students in an emotional state.

Teachers can help students through the survival state by helping them breathe to calm down and using a firm tone of "no doubt".

Discipline styles range from passive to aggressive. Rather than falling to either extreme, firm teachers use a tone of "no doubt."

The three brain states (survival, emotional, executive) shed light on how students are driven to act in certain situations.