The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

I’ve just started reading and have already found this book useful! I can’t wait to finish and put it to practice!

Bought this book to help with my Autistic son. This book is great for even typical kids with behavior issues. Many great ideas to implement for any child with any issues

I spent a day of professional development listening to Jennifer Minahan give an amazing presentation which inspired me to want to read the book she co-authored afterwards. She's a great speaker and the book was a wonderful wrap-up of her key concepts.

An incredible resource for those working with children struggling with a variety of mental health impairments that impact their behavior

Bought this book to help me with understanding my students behaviors and it didn't disappoint.I find her to be a great speaker as well.

This book is and exceeds everything I was hoping to learn about how difficult behaviors interfere with learning, and how to modify my teaching approach. As I embark on my new career as a teacher, I will be well-equipped to help students, with challenging behaviors, learn in a way that makes sense to them. During my student teaching assignment, I had a second grade student with a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). My cooperating teacher (CT) told me that most of the typical positive behavioral reward strategies did not work and the child spent a lot of time in the in school suspension (ISS) room as a result of her outbursts. I had shared The Behavior Code with my CT but I think she was a little skeptical because I was "new." At any rate, once I began teaching full time, I put the FAIR plan into use as much as I could and I saw incredible results. We did have to work extra hard on social skills, too, because she had actually skipped first grade (IQ 140) so her maturity played a role in many of her negative behaviors at school. Once I began using the FAIR plan, this child became happy and free! She did not have to go to ISS for the rest of my student teaching assignment, nor did she lose any conduct points. The knowledge and expertise included in this book is immeasurable. I don't know what I would have done without it. Moreover, I am going to be one step ahead for when I get hired as a full-time teacher and have my fair share of challenging students.

Excellent resource for all teachers. Thank you!

I am a parent, and I figured I'd purchase to see what strategies teachers use to use with my own child. I found my child's inconsistent behavior frustrating and aggravating. This book is very enlightening as it discusses behavior as a series of skills that we learn, and how children may not have the neural connections to act or respond logically. We impose so many adult concepts and understandings to our children, and we fail to remember that they don't have the same sequential or logic skills that we do. It teaches how to take a step back and get to the core cause of a behavior--which may not be consistent from event to event, and to work collaboratively with your child to modify troublesome behavior so that they learn new skills.

Excellent book has really helped me with my Senco amd mental health lead role. Really helps to understand causes of behaviour and howvto support.

Great book. Loads of ideas to implement in school

Arrived on time. Great book and I have even leant it out to a couple teachers. Wonderful book for referencing kids with anxieties.

Prompt delivery great book