What is Conscious Discipline?

Conscious Discipline empowers adults to create safe, connected, and self-regulated systems from classrooms to districts so children develop the emotional, behavioral, and executive skills they need to thrive. Our work transforms schools, early childhood programs, and families through adult-first, brain-based practices aligned to real-world implementation. Learn more about Conscious Discipline.

How is Conscious Discipline different from traditional behavior management?

Traditional systems like sticker charts and timeouts focus on managing a child's behavior directly. Conscious Discipline starts with the adult: building the self-regulation skills, classroom structures, and relationships that make lasting systemic cultural change possible. See the supporting research.

Does Conscious Discipline align with Head Start programs?

Yes. Conscious Discipline is designed to align with Head Start's existing goals and standards, including the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and CLASS, so programs can adopt it without layering on a separate initiative. Explore Conscious Discipline for Head Start.

What does Conscious Discipline offer Head Start staff and leaders specifically?

Support includes English- and Spanish-language resources, leadership training for high-stress environments, and tools focused on staff retention, family engagement, and program outcomes. Take the S.A.F.E. Diagnostic to see where your center's needs are.

Wiring the Brain for Success – Dr. Becky Bailey at TEDx

With Conscious Discipline

July 24, 2017
17:47

Webinar: Wiring the Brain for Success with Dr. Becky Bailey

TEDx

Early Childhood and Developmental Psychology Expert, Dr. Becky Bailey shares her riveting insights on how neuroscience reveals important things we can do to provide optimal situations that will wire our children for success.

This talk comes from a TEDx event at The Pine School in Hobe Sound, FL. The theme of the day was, “Can Creativity and Innovation be Developed Through Education?”

Conscious Discipline

This web-based computer application allows for ratings to be entered online, completes all scoring, generates reports and stores the data in a secure database. It provides immediate access to reports, including individual ratings, rater comparisons, pre and post-comparisons, strategy reports and group profiles. Users can also generate a report that provides aggregate information across an entire program, and can download or export the data.