A review by bookishaddictions
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross W. Greene

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

If you are a parent or teacher that works with “problem” children, this is a must read. Greene uses his educational experience and research to introduce the Collaborative and Proactive Strategies (CPS) model. He will give you ways to work with challenging children (and these tips can be used with adults too) rather than constantly having to tell them what they should be doing or disciplining them. Greene’s goal is to solve the problems before they begin- children’s misbehavior is a symptom of lacking skills, but the behaviors are not the problem themselves. Greene is essentially coming up with a way to cure the child issues rather than educators continuing to just putting a band aid on them. I’m not normally into professional development books, but Greene had my interest. I especially like that we get to follow the story of one teacher’s struggle with “challenging” kids to help reinforce the concepts learned in each chapter. Greene will really challenge you to reconsider the way you see the classroom if you give this book a go. I can’t wait to try this in my own classroom. There is so much more I could say about this book, but I’ll leave it at this: get to reading 🤪