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TACSEI Consultants

New Jersey

Kathleen Dunn Priestley

Westfield, NJ
dunnpriestley@challengingbehavior.org
Age Expertise: 3-5

This consultant has reported to TACSEI that he or she has expertise in the following topic areas:

  • Pyramid model for children with disabilities
  • Effective evaluation procedures for programs and systems
  • Collaboration and teaming
  • Effective leadership strategies for state and local program administrators, directors, principals, family leaders, etc.
  • Policies and procedures related to expulsion
  • 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
  • Effective training and technical assistance and coaching strategies and systems
  • Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for infants/toddlers (b-2)
  • Evidence-based practices and modules that promote the social emotional development of infants/toddlers (b-2)
  • Preventing the expulsion of children due to behavior problems
  • Implementing positive behavior support (PBS) for social skills/behavior for young children
  • Implementing response to intervention (RTI) for social skills/behavior for young children
  • Implementing evidence-based practices responsive to cultural and language diversity
  • Parent training or family support related to social emotional or behavior promotion and intervention
  • Implementing the pyramid model for promoting the social emotional development of preschoolers (3-5)
  • Program-wide implementation of the pyramid model
  • Policies and procedures that promote the adoption, implementation, sustainability and scaling up of effective practices
  • Evidence-based practices for behavior intervention for preschoolers (3-5)