In this DVD, Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis, "two teachers from Minnesota," discuss their successful 5-point scale to help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events that might otherwise set in emotion escalating reactions.  From obsessions and yelling, to hitting or making hurtful statements to classmates, the authors share how to work with students to break down a given behavior. In the process, students identify the problem and come up with alternative, positive behaviors at each level of the scale.  The use of the scale helps break down a given behavior and, with the student's active participation, develop a unique scale that identifies the problem and, just as important, suggests alternative, positive behaviors at each level of the scale.