Defiance
Resistance, refusal, or direct opposition.
Regulated Adults. Resilient Kids.
Dr. David A. PalmerRewire the Response™Staff Response Review ↗For educators, leaders, and teams supporting neurodivergent students
Build a More Consistent Adult Response
When a student escalates, staff need more than a consequence chart. Rewire the Response helps schools read behavior more accurately, reduce unnecessary escalation, and respond with greater consistency across classrooms and teams.
THE SCHOOL-SIDE OUTCOMEA shared response logic.Greater consistency across classrooms, teams, and hard moments.
The response problem
The Problem Is Not Just Student Behavior
Inconsistent adult responses can increase confusion, escalation, and staff frustration. One student may experience pressure in one classroom, avoidance in another, and punishment somewhere else.
The goal is not identical adult behavior. The goal is a shared response logic.A shared description
The Six D's: What Staff Are Seeing
The Six D's help staff name the visible presentation of big emotional behavior so teams can begin from a shared description instead of labels like “defiant,” “lazy,” or “attention-seeking.”
Disruption
Behavior that interrupts learning or the group.
Dodging
Avoidance, delay, escape, or task withdrawal.
Detonation
Rapid escalation, aggression, or an explosive response.
Disconnection
Shutdown, withdrawal, or loss of access to connection.
Distress
Visible overwhelm, fear, grief, or dysregulation.
The Six D's help teams describe the behavior. INSPECT helps them examine the conditions around it.
Use the Six D's Decoder ↗
Six D's = what staff are seeing.
INSPECT = what the school examines around it.
The school systems lens
INSPECT the Conditions Around the Behavior
Student behavior does not happen in a vacuum. INSPECT helps educators and leaders examine the adult, instructional, environmental, and systems conditions that may be shaping what happens next.
Instruction
Is the task clear, accessible, and matched to current capacity?
Nervous system
What signs of activation, shutdown, or overload are present?
Sensory environment
What noise, movement, proximity, or stimulation may matter?
People
How are relationships, tone, pace, and adult presence shaping the moment?
Expectations
Are demands predictable, realistic, and understood?
Context
What happened before this moment, and what pattern surrounds it?
Time
How might transition, fatigue, pacing, or time pressure be contributing?
From insight to practice
How School Support Works
Identify the recurring response challenge
Clarify where staff responses, routines, expectations, or environments may be contributing to escalation.
Build a more consistent adult response
Give staff a shared language and practical response logic they can use across settings.
Support implementation over time
Help leaders move the work from a one-time training into repeatable practice.
The goal is not another training. It is greater response consistency.
Professional learning that lasts
Your staff does not need another training that fades by lunch.
They need a shared way to understand what is happening, decide how to respond, and carry that response logic across classrooms and teams.
School services
Choose the level of support your system needs.
Each format is designed around the same goal: a more consistent adult response across classrooms, teams, and hard moments.
SHARED LENS
Regulation Before Education Keynote
For schools and organizations that need a shared lens for understanding big emotional behavior and adult response.
What changesStaff leave with a clearer way to recognize escalation and reduce avoidable pressure.
Starting at $5,000Explore the Keynote ↗PRACTICAL APPLICATION
INSPECT Workshop
For teams that need practical tools for examining the conditions around behavior and improving adult-response consistency.
What changesTeams apply Six D’s and INSPECT to real school situations and build usable response logic.
Starting at $7,500Explore the Workshop ↗SUSTAINED PRACTICE
Implementation Partnership
For leaders who want the work embedded into team routines, staff practice, and school systems over time.
What changesLeadership support, team learning, follow-up, and implementation planning help the work last.
Custom scopeDiscuss Implementation Support ↗A focused first conversation
Schedule a Staff Response Review
Use the conversation to identify the recurring adult-response challenge, where consistency is breaking down, and which level of support makes the most sense.
This is not a generic discovery call. It is a focused review of the response problem your team is trying to solve.
Schedule a Staff Response Review ↗