Got a new ts since Ioxe got but hurt and destroyed the other one <| sep |> Yes . The basic idea is that most kids come to school with poor decision making because they ' re in a survival or emotional brain state . When you ' re scared or unloved you aren ' t using your frontal lobes and you can ' t learn because you have no executive function . The whole concept is built around giving kids skills to recognize which state they ' re in survival , emotional , executive and move up to more successful states . It ' s supposedly based on brain research . I think the skills they teach kids are valuable . breathing to get oxygen to their frontal lobes , assertiveness , etc . All skills that kids like ours lack . I ' ve seen kids try them and benefit from them . It ' s a 3 year process to implement it in a district and we ' re part way through year 1 . Supposedly we ' re combining it with restorative practices , but so far we lack the staff to make restorative successful . Kids are back in class without an apology or discussion because there ' s nobody to staff the restorative center while someone facilitates restorations .