Why Should You Use CPS in Your Classroom?
Collaborative Problem Solving model with developed at Massachusetts General Hospital under the direction Dr. Stuart Eblon and Dr. Ross Greene and is the basis of the 1998 book the The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children. An entire generation of parents and mental health therapists have used the CPS Method for children with developmental and mental health challenges including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Oppositional Defiance Disorder and other disorders in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. The method relies on behavioral modification and increased communication to solve problems instead of relying solely on pharmaceuticals which can cause adverse side effects, withdrawal symptoms, stunt growth, and inhibit neuropathways from being formed. CPS creates neuropathways that help a person to react in an appropriate manner when in crisis. The CPS Model looks at lagging skills and finds innovative ways to help the students to develop those skills Collaboratively
In 2008, Dr. Ross Greene wrote the book Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them. A program for educators to use the CPS Model. Greene also renamed his side of the model Collaborative and Proactive Solutions and started the Non-Profit Lives in the Balance with the website livesinthebalance.org due to copywrite laws. In 2016, Dr. Ross Greene wrote the follow up book; Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students. Both programs can be used together and I refer to both as CPS for simplicity.
This presentation is about the implementation of the CPS Model with Ashland School District. I have compared the statistics with our local Springfield School District. I’ve analyzed the both the academic and behavioral responses to the inclusion of the CPS Model in their middle schools.
EDUC 321, Classroom Relations & Management
Brian Kaelin
Banquet Room, Poster #10
10 AM – Noon