In exploring calmer classrooms, positive learning framework and restorative practices I came across this video. It supports the notion of the need to “feed” positive behaviours and to teach students how to respond emotionally. Timothy O’Leary explains that we are not all hard-wired at birth with all the emotions we need and many need to be explicitly taught. Instead of telling students about their poor responses we should be teaching them and modelling to them the positive emotions and providing them with feedback when they exhibit these.