Positive Discipline in the Classroom with Chip DeLorenzo (Jan 2024)

Chip DeLorenzo has been a Montessori educator since 1995. He is the co-author, with Dr. Jane Nelsen (author and co-founder of Positive Discipline), of Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom.  As a teacher trainer and school consultant, Chip has worked with thousands of Montessori teachers and parents in teaching the principles and practices of Positive Discipline through various workshops and lectures. He is the former Head of School of the Damariscotta Montessori School, where he spent 20 years as a school leader and teacher.  Chip holds Early Childhood, Lower and Upper Elementary AMS certifications, and has worked extensively with Montessori Adolescent students. Connect with Chip at ChipDeLorenzo.com for more information.

Positive Discipline is used as a foundational approach to classroom and school discipline in many Montessori schools throughout the United States because of its continuity with the Montessori principles of respect and independence.

Positive Discipline is based on the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolph Dreikurs, contemporaries of Maria Montessori. The primary goal of the approach is to help create a social/emotional environment where children are given the tools to to succeed in becoming responsible, respectful and capable members of their communities and families.

In today's episode, Chip covers

-What is Positive Discipline?

-The importance of building relationships of mutual respect with children

-The Mistaken Goals chart

-The 4 Steps to Follow-Through

-Using PD as a tool to align practices across classrooms within a school