From ThinkKids: "kids with challenging behavior don’t lack the will to behave well. They lack the skills to behave well." CPS is a trauma-informed practice that makes social-emotional learning actionable, helps students meet expectations, reduces concerning behavior, builds students’ skills, and strengthens their relationships with educators. CPS is an equitable and effective form of relational discipline. As with Social Emotional Learning, it is essential to consider and challenge how biases and stereotypes connected with identity (ie. race, class, gender, etc) influence our perceptions of student behavior.
"In the CPS model, the problem solving is of the collaborative and proactive variety. This is in contrast to many of the interventions that are commonly applied to kids, which are of the unilateral and emergent variety. The goal is to foster a problem-solving, collaborative partnership between adults and kids and to engage kids in solving the problems that affect their lives. As such, the CPS model is non-punitive and non-adversarial, decreases the likelihood of conflict, enhances relationships, improves communication, and helps kids and adults learn and display the skills on the more positive side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one’s behavior is affecting others, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another’s perspective, and honesty."