State and Local Program Leaders
Welcome to the TACSEI State and Local Program Leaders Community. Here you will find information and select resources that have been compiled specifically with the needs of state and local program leaders in mind. Just as a community changes and grows over time, so will this page as new interactive elements and resources are created and added.
Resources
Measuring and reporting outcomes
Discipline, IEP's, IFSP's
De-escalation and restraint
State Policies
Briefs
Policy Brief: Promoting Social, Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes of Young Children Served Under IDEA
A growing body of evidence confirms that serious and persistent challenging behaviors in early childhood directly relate to later problems in school success, social relationships, educational and vocational success, and social adjustment. This brief addresses several important questions policy makers may have about challenging behavior and how these issues relate to young children served under IDEA.
Videos
The videos described below are available on DVD and can be ordered through CSEFEL by completing and submitting this order form.
Promoting Social Emotional Competence was designed to provide a foundation for understanding the Teaching Pyramid as a framework for promoting young children’s social and emotional development and preventing and addressing challenging behavior. This 22-minute video is a perfect way to be introduced to and become familiar with the pyramid framework and is available with both English and Spanish open captioning.
Practical Strategies for Teaching Social Emotional Skills. This 28-minute video highlights strategies and approaches that early childhood personnel and families can use to systematically target social emotional supports that build young children’s skills in a variety of areas including making friends, problem solving, asking an adult for help, talking about feelings, and managing their emotions. The strategies rely on a 3-stage approach to supporting young children’s social emotional development by (1) introducing and practicing a skill, (2) building fluency and competency with a skill, and (3) ensuring there is maintenance of a skill. The video provides multiple examples of early childhood personnel demonstrating how to introduce a skill using a variety of tools, practice a skill through planned and unscripted activities, and maintain the skill by recognizing children for using the skill on their own.
Web Presentations
- Implementing Positive Behavior Supports within Local Systems
The adoption of a program-wide, tiered model of social emotional and behavior intervention is being promoted as an effective practice, but what does it take administratively to ensure fidelity of implementation? Lise Fox of TACSEI provides a brief description of a program-wide model and introduces Linda Broyles of the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program (SEK-CAP) who describes the administrative actions necessary for program-wide model adoption, implementation fidelity, and sustaining the effort over time. Linda Broyles is the Deputy Director of SEK-CAP, Inc. and the Director of Early Childhood Services and has championed the program-wide adoption of Positive Behavior Support within her regional Head Start program that is currently in its 7th year of implementation. (January, 2008) - Promoting the Social, Emotional and Behavioral Development and Outcomes of Young Children: Recommended Practices and Resources
A discussion about promoting the social and emotional development of young children. Faculty members Rob Corso, Lise Fox, and Barbara Smith describe a comprehensive prevention, promotion, and intervention framework which integrates evidence-based practices to address the social-emotional and behavioral needs of young children ages birth – five and their families, and identify valuable resources that may be used for personnel preparation, policy and program guidance. (February, 2007)
Websites
- IDEA Infant and Toddler Coordinators Association (ITCA)
- National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)
TACSEI Pages
- Learn About the Pyramid Model
- Policies and Systems
- Children's Health Links
- Children's Mental Health Links
- National Resources Links
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