“Charlie Appelstein’s respectful, knowledgeable, and humorous approach to helping teachers and counselors to understand and more positively interact with their most difficult students has done more to renew a sense of hope for troubled schoolchildren than any other project I have been associated with. His empathic view of early childhood development assists teachers to positively reframe the challenging behavior of their students, and his no-nonsense approach to classroom discipline provides them with an array of effective strategies for dealing with difficulties as they arrive. Charlie Appelstein should be cloned. America’s schools need him!”