A great discipline technique teachers need to practice with each other

Many teachers and school leaders that I work with have more discipline issues with their peers and team members than they do with children. This is largely because in International Schools the student population is not very inclusive, which is a topic I wrote about not too long ago.

One of the most requested topics in recent years, and one which I now facilitate in all leadership workshops, is related to Conflict Management. The process discussed in this New York Times Article is almost exactly the approach I use with educators. The combined effect of how our brain processes information and how we communicate our perception, both verbally and non-verbally, is summed up in the image I included in this post, the Inference Ladder.

If student discipline is high on your radar, this article, based on my experience, is amazing. If improving collaborative communication in your schools is high on your to do list, then this article also has several key takeaways. You can also read more about the technique I learned from a great facilitator, Azul Terronez, by reading Gervase Bushe’s paper, Learning from Collective Experience: A Different View of Organizational Learning.