TACSEI Consultants
Washington DC
Kimberly Diamond-Berry
Washington, DC
diamondberry@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Social emotional curricula
- Collaboration and teaming
Neal Horen
Washington, DC
horen@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
- Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
- Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective practices
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
- IDEA requirements related to social emotional and behavioral development/intervention
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Collaboration and teaming
- Policies and procedures on restraint and seclusion
- Policies and procedures related to expulsion
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Assessment instruments and procedures related to social emotional development
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Social emotional curricula
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
Amy Hunter
Washington, DC
hunter@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: b-2
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
- Approaches to monitoring growth or outcomes related to social-emotional and behavior development
- Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective practices
- Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- The development of IFSPs that include goals relating to social emotional and behavioral development
- Policies and procedures related to expulsion
- Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
Marilou Hyson
Washington, DC
hyson@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5
This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:
- Social emotional curricula
- Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
- Policies and procedures for effective in-service and pre-service professional development
- Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective practices







