A 6-year-old in Leila Lubin鈥檚 classroom wouldn鈥檛 budge from his seat. The rest of his peers had filed off to their enrichment classes but he refused to move. He wasn鈥檛 done with his work and he didn鈥檛 want to go.
Lubin, a champion of behavior management and crisis prevention training for teachers, knew what to do. She turned to a script that has become such a routine part of her classroom that it seems to elicit an almost Pavlovian response 鈥 steering misbehaving students back on track at the sound of the words: 鈥淎w man, you鈥檙e having a really rough time right now. We鈥檙e going to do some learning later.鈥
