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  • Lost at School

  • Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
  • Written by: Ross W. Greene PhD
  • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
  • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (60 ratings)

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Lost at School

Written by: Ross W. Greene PhD
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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Publisher's Summary

From the renowned authority on education and parenting, "an in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging students" (Publishers Weekly) - now revised and updated.

School discipline is broken. Too often, the kids who need our help the most are viewed as disrespectful, out of control, and beyond help, and are often the recipients of our most ineffective, most punitive interventions. These students - and their parents, teachers, and administrators - are frustrated and desperate for answers.

Dr. Ross W. Greene, author of the acclaimed book The Explosive Child, offers educators and parents a different framework for understanding challenging behavior. Dr. Greene's Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach helps adults focus on the true factors contributing to challenging classroom behaviors, empowering educators to address these factors and create helping relationships with their most at-risk kids.

This revised and updated edition of Lost at School contains the latest refinements to Dr. Greene's CPS model, including enhanced methods for solving problems collaboratively, improving communication, and building relationships with kids.

Dr. Greene's lively, compelling narrative includes:

  • Tools to identify the problems and lagging skills causing challenging behavior
  • Explicit guidance on how to radically improve interactions with challenging kids and reduce challenging episodes - along with many examples showing how it's done
  • Practical guidance for successful planning and collaboration among educators, parents, and kids

Backed by years of experience and research and written with a powerful sense of hope and achievable change, Lost at School gives teachers and parents the realistic strategies and information to impact the classroom experience of every challenging kid (and their classmates).

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2014 Ross W. Greene (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Excerpt from “Across the Great Divide” by Kate Wolf © Another Sundown Publishing Company, used with permission.

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Great narration of an inspiring book

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book on a long road trip. The narration was engaging and clear. I appreciated knowing when the book switched from various subheadings such as "the story continues" or clearly breaking down lists of examples. I would recommend this book to teachers, parents or caregivers that work with "difficult behaviours".

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great book

This book has a very different philosophy on dealing with challenging kids. It's worth a read/listen. Easy to read language and many concrete examples so you know what to do in your classroom/home. I enjoyed the story lines throughout the book that showed practical application and gave the book something extra (more than just theory, data, and examples).

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loved it!

I'm a teacher and this book should be read by everyone working with children and youth. I highly recommend it

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Very helpful

Working with students to solve problems may seem harder at first but saves time in the long run. So true.

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Lost at School / Found in the Classroom

Lost at School is a powerful story of being lost and found in the classroom. Of finding a place where you are safe, respected, and valued. Lost at School should be a must-read book for all teachers. Students will remain lost at school unless we take the time to find them in our classrooms. An absolutely powerful book, thank you for writing it!

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he seems angry

His reading and voice are harsh. It is hard to take him seriously about how to deal with aggressive behaviour when his tone is aggressive.

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  • AGrady
  • 2016-07-11

Interesting insights

I believe Dr. Greene captures the essence of necessary changes school systems need to make in order to truly educate our students. Facilitating academic progress and and sufficiently preparing our youth for the future entails so much more than mere math, science, social studies and reading/LA. Social/emotional development, one's mental health and relational aptitude are intertwined within academic and cognitive development. They cannot be separated, but yet schools' predominant focus is solely on academic content. Overall, this focus basically excludes aspects of what science has proven to foster cognitive and overall development. Science has proven that the primary factors in having a happy and successful life are relational connectedness and aptitude! Relational and social/emotional health require foundational skills. These skills need to be taught, practiced and then re-taunt in a comprehensive, developmentally appropriate way. That's how humans learn- through patterned repetition. Great book! I wish all schools considered this philosophy. Perhaps then societal health would improve, along with the scores of typical assessment measures.

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  • Haner Family
  • 2016-03-18

Good for this teacher!

This was very helpful to me and I will apply this in my classroom. 8 need a new strategy!

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  • Bryan Thornhill
  • 2016-02-27

fantastic book!

the author presents a very viable solution for schools that are relying on a discipline matrix that only issues punishment. It suggest that kids will make good decisions if they have the skills to do so, and if they don't, then it is our job to identify those skills and support the students in helping to develop them

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  • DoniLynn
  • 2016-09-01

Truly Transformational

This is a great book that will create a positive shift in your mindset when dealing with students/children that struggle with behavior issues. The strategies really work and are a great asset to a school community or anyone that works with children.

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  • A. Martin
  • 2016-03-17

Great information!

This book has a lot of great information, even if you're not a teacher or educator. As a parent, I found this book helpful in better understanding how to use the CPS method. The narrator was good, and it was easy to listen to.

There is not really a story.

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  • Jenizma
  • 2016-05-30

Brought scenarios alive

I have the book but listening to the reader made the characters concerns real. Very glad I listened to the audio along with reading the book. Looking forward to implementing this new way of thinking about kids thinking skills.

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  • Drsarah
  • 2016-05-03

Important and useful ideas

Overall useful content for educators and parents but vignettes were too long and drawn out.

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  • DChip
  • 2018-08-30

A must read for anyone working with kids.

A practical, hands on, easy to read book packed with valuable information. It invites one to look at the paradigm one is using to respond to kids’ challenging behavior and offers a more effective approach (a proactive and collaborative approach with proven positive results) to respond to kids’ (and their parents) struggles. Kids don’t have difficult behavior due to lack of motivation but rather because of lagging skills which can be identified and collaboratively addressed. Wish I had read this book 30 years ago when I started working in schools!

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  • Z
  • 2018-08-02

Theory goes against the norm, but done very well.

Ross Greene goes against the norm with his views on why students misbehave, but he is very agreeable to those who have worked with difficult children. Occasionally I feel as if he does not empathize well with teachers, implying that we could be helping these troubled students much more with their unsolved problems if we dropped everything to go through his plans. However, there is strong merit to his suggestions as I have used his sentence frames verbatim and gotten results. Worth the listen for teachers genuinely trying to help troubled kids.

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  • Jesse R
  • 2023-06-25

Way Too Long For Such Little Substance

This could have all been said in 1-2 hrs. It’s really not that amazing, and I found it to be condescending to general education teachers. The idea is good, but it’s not the only solution. I also hate the fact that they pretend motivational strategies are bad. We all work for motivation, such as a paycheck. Guarantee he wouldn’t have written this book if there wouldn’t have been a pay check.

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