Barry's delivery is highly engaging and informative. He motivates educators and parents to build upon their existing strengths and capabilities and become more confident in disciplining and guiding students. Most importantly, he helps teachers acquire new discipline skills so that they have more time to teach. For the past ten years teacher evaluations of Barry's Cooperative Discipline workshops, institutes and keynote addresses consistently express appreciation for his highly positive and pragmatic discipline framework along with practical strategies and techniques which they can immediately use the following day with their students. Barry knows that controlling anyone simply by virtue of being an authority figure doesn't work today.
Every action taken by educators is up for public scrutiny and debate.
These are indeed tough times for teachers. Barry has extensive experience working with the demanding situations which face both elementary and secondary teachers and is a noted expert on building positive relations between home and school. Whether in the boardroom, on the stage, or in a classroom with a group of teachers, administrators or parents Barry makes sense of complicated issues and helps teachers to set clear limits and enforce them in a consistent and caring manner. He is noted for tailoring all his inservice training to address specific issues and will go that extra mile to ensure that your needs are met. He consults in both Canada and the U.S. and looks forward to his 9th year of teaching at an annual 5 day summer institute for educators and parents in Europe.