Proprietary New Content for Preschool and School-Age Programs!

We don’t just correct behavior—we build the brain behind it.

Supported by Research: The Brains and Boxes Approach will help you transform everyday interactions into meaningful learning moments that build lifelong learners, emotionally aware individuals, and socially competent children.

In today’s classrooms and homes, preschool and school-age children are often expected to regulate behavior, manage emotions, and solve problems without being explicitly taught how their brains develop or how their experiences shape their responses. As a result, many children struggle with:

• Emotional regulation and self-control
• Problem-solving and critical thinking
• Social understanding and communication
• Confidence in navigating their environment

Brains and Boxes fills this gap by giving children a structured, brain-based approach to learning how to think, feel, and respond appropriately.

Through intentional cognitive development (Build a Brain) and emotional awareness (Open the Box), children learn to:

• Understand their own behavior
• Develop reasoning and vocabulary skills
• Build emotional intelligence and self-reflection
• Strengthen relationships and long-term learning capacity

This is not just behavior management—it is brain development in action.

The What: Brains and Boxes: A Transformative Approach to Guide Behaviors is a simple, research-based, neurorelational approach that helps educators understand behavior and respond in ways that build positive relationships and support child development.

The Why: Using the Brains and Boxes framework, professionals look beyond the behavior to understand what may be causing it. Participants learn practical strategies to support emotional regulation, social-emotional growth, brain processing, positive relationships, family partnerships, and the success of all children, including those with disabilities.

The How: There is an interactive 3-part training series that combines research, reflection, and real-life application. Participants gain practical tools and strategies they can use immediately to improve behavior, strengthen relationships, partner with families, and create supportive learning environments. There is a Guidebook full of implementation and execution strategies, as well as teacher tools and action planning pages to use to support the approach. We also offer customized coaching and mentor sessions with the Founder behind the approach, called Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), to support educational programs. This is a live, virtual training, coaching, and guided course option to help administrators and teachers implement the approach. The PLCs offer a relational support opportunity for programs to meet with the Founder and learn how to sustain the approach for behavior management within their classrooms, supporting children and families.

All three of these options are aligned to support educators in diverse ways, to accommodate your professional development needs, earn state-required training hours, have hands-on support by the approach’s founder, and be provided with a direct guidebook tool to use immediately in the classroom. Purchase any or all today, to help you tomorrow!

To learn more about Brains and Boxes click here.

Preschool & School-Age Edition Training Series:

• Classroom Management Overview, Application, and Delivery (2 clock hours)
• Children with Disabilities (2 clock hours)
• Parents as Partners (2 clock hours)

= Total of 6 clock hours

Guidebook: Table of Contents

• Research / Foundation Overview
• Info/Steps for Application and Delivery
• Examples / Classroom Scenarios
• Teacher Reflection Pages (Action Plan)
• Children with Disabilities
• Parents as Partners
• Teacher Resources to Support the Approach

Products:

• Printed Guidebook (116 pages)
• Instructor-Led Interactive Online Course (6 clock hours)
• Live Course: Professional Learning Community (PLC) on Zoom with the Creator (6 clock hours)