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)







