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Let's now think a little more about your role as a helper. Here are the two most important roles a helper can play in the life of a kid who's struggling:

1 Figure out what skills the student is lacking and the expectations they're having difficulty meeting.

2 Start solving those problems, but do it in a way—collaboratively and proactively—that engages kids in solving the problems that affect their lives and creates a problem‐solving partnership.

These are the roles you'll be reading about for the remainder of this book.

“I came to CPS because I hit that wall of futility and realized that no matter how many consequences I kept giving to these kids, nothing was going to change. I needed to change, and I needed to change how I was viewing them and dealing with them. It seems like we're often in a mind‐set of, ‘This kid is broken. This kid needs fixing. He needs a doctor.’ I had to turn the mirror around and ask, ‘Let's look at what we're doing, too.’”

—NINA, PRINCIPAL