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But Did We Actually Help the Kid?
The behavior went down. The chart looks better. Fewer office referrals. Less refusal. The kid is staying in class.
Great.
But did we actually help the kid?
Because getting a kid to stop doing something and figuring out why they were doing it in the first place are not the same thing. And sometimes they look exactly the same in the data.
This is me talking through behavior, the stories adults start telling about kids, what happens when “refused task” turns into “defiant” or “unmotivated,” and why I keep coming back to one question:
What actually changed for the kid?
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