What happens to behavior in your classroom when you forget the reinforcers? If the answer is 'everything falls apart' - that tells you something important about your system. In this episode, we're talking about the difference between reinforcement and bribery, how well-intentioned reward systems create dependency, and what it looks like to build toward natural reinforcers so students aren't permanently tethered to a token board or prize box.

Deci, Koestner & Ryan (1999). A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards. Psychological Bulletin.

Cooper, Heron & Heward (2020). Applied behavior analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson.

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