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Oh Behave October 2023

Oh Behave! October 2023

Setting Up Your Classroom For Success Using The Pyramid Model, Ask The Behavior Specialist!, Social/Emotional Book Nook and more!!

Oh Behave August 2023

Oh, Behave! August 2023  Volume 17, Issue 2

June 23 Oh Behave

June 2023 “Oh Behave” – Healthy Social Behaviors Newsletter

What is the child choice strategy, why is it important and what can you do in your classroom? Learn more in this report.

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Using Choice and Preferences

What is meant by the purpose of behavior and why is important? Find out in this report.

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Uncovering the Purpose of Behavior

Allowing children to express their preferences and make choices throughout the day will help them develop control and a sense of power over their environment. This report contains some strategies to make that fun and effective.

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Strategies for Using Choice and Preferences

Children speak to us through their behaviors and challenging behaviors communicate a need. In other words… children use challenging behavior because they have learned it works for them! By determining the purpose of a behavior, teachers can devise strategies to help the child learn more appropriate ways to meet the same need.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);">

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Strategies for Uncovering the Purpose of Behavior

Learn some quick and easy strategies for planning and creating an environment that encourages positive social interactions in your classroom.

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Strategies for Structuring the Environment to Promote Positive Social Interactions

Children who are engaged in activities with materials, a classmate or an adult are less likely to be engaged in challenging behaviors…so classroom schedules and routines should be designed with child engagement in mind. If your schedule is predictable and the children have been taught the daily routines, your classroom will run more smoothly and fewer behavior problems will occur. Learn some strategies in this report.

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Strategies for Routines and Classroom Schedules

Do you want to create a class family? Do you want your children to connect with only with you but also with their peers? As teachers we try to build relationships with children in our classroom but we also need to encourage relationships between the children.
The simple activities listed in this report will foster connections between the children in your classroom and help create a caring classroom community.

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Strategies for Promoting Positive Interactions Between Children

This report contains ideas for activities that you can use to support smooth transitions for children throughout the day.

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Strategies for Helping Children Make Transitions

By using self managing techniques, children become responsible for their actions and learn to monitor their own behavior. This report provides examples of techniques you can use to facilitate self management in your classroom.

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Strategies for Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior

As a teacher you can help the children in your classroom learn to label emotions and develop this valuable social-emotional skill. This report provides examples of ways to incorporate &#8220;emotion faces&#8221; into your classroom as well as other strategies for fostering emotional literacy in young children.

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Strategies for Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children

Children who feel appreciated and enjoyed by the adults in their lives are more likely to try to please those adults. In your classroom, this means that you have a very easy behavior management tool literally at your fingertips. Find some quick and easy strategies in this report.

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Strategies for Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children

Although most children find it easy to talk, play and work with other children, some need a teacher’s assistance. Through planned social situations children are able to make new friends, which gives them confidence to seek out other social interactions. Discover various strategies in this report.

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Strategies for Creating Opportunities That Support Children’s Interactions

In early childhood settings, each interaction between a teacher and a child holds the potential to develop positive relationships. In this report, you&#8217;ll find quick and easy ideas and strategies to help you form closer relationships with the children in your care.

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Strategies for Building Positive Teacher-Child Relationships

By noticing and acknowledging children’s appropriate behaviors, you motivate children to continue to use those behaviors. It’s a win-win situation: teachers want children to exhibit positive behaviors and young children want their teacher’s approval.
Learn more about strategies for acknowledging positive behaviors in this report.

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Strategies for Acknowledging Positive Behaviors

Find out more about routines and classroom schedules and why they are important in this report.

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Routines and Classroom Schedules

Find out more about positive interactions between children, why they are important and much more in this report.

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Promoting Positive Interactions Between Children

What are transitions, why is it important to address transitions between activities and what can you do in your classroom? Find out in this report.

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Helping Children Make Transitions

Learn more about self-management for children and why it&#8217;s important in this report.

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Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior

Learn more about emotional literacy and why it&#8217;s important in this report.

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Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children

What does it mean to express warmth and affection to children and why is it important? Find out in this report.

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Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children

What are environmental strategies that promote positive social interactions and why is it important to use these environmental strategies? Find out in this report.

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Environmental Strategies That Promote Positive Social Interactions

What does it mean to support children&#8217;s interactions? Find out in this report.

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Creating Opportunities That Support Children’s Interactions

What are positive teacher-child relationships and why are they important? Find the answers to these questions and more in this report.

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Building Positive Teacher-Child Relationships

What does it mean to acknowledge positive behaviors? Learn why it&#8217;s important, strategies and much more in this report.

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Acknowledging Positive Behaviors

When children are removed from their families due to abuse and/or neglect, there are five emotions that most children who are in foster care typically experience: confusion, anger, ambivalence/mixed feelings, fantasizing/wishful thinking and identification with their birth family.
In this guide, you&#8217;ll find suggestions suggestions for helping a child navigate these emotions.

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When Children Are Placed in Foster Care

In the aftermath of the death of a sibling, a child needs answers but often does not know how to ask the questions.
This guide contains helpful tips for child care providers and parents.

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When a Sibling Dies

For many children, pet death is the first time they will experience grief and loss. Children’s reactions to the death of a pet will depend upon their age and developmental level.
Guiding children through the loss of a beloved pet in a positive way will help them to handle grief in the future.

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When a Pet Dies

It can be very scary when a parent loses the ability to interact as they use to with a child due to loss of a limb. It can frighten children and is often hard for them to understand. Being prepared to help children adjust can alleviate stress and anxiety from the already sensitive situation.

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When a Parent Loses a Limb or Loss of Ability

Children whose parent is incarcerated are impacted in a number of ways.
This guide provides information on how adults can support a child in this situation.

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When a Parent is Incarcerated

Losing a parent is the most profound loss a child can experience.
These tips will help the adults in their life support them during this time.

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When a Parent Dies

When a parent loses their job, it causes a great deal of stress within the family. Not only are the adults worried and concerned, but the children are affected as well. Job loss creates anxiety and economic hardship for families. These tips may help you navigate the situation with children.

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When a Parent Becomes Unemployed

Most kids lose a grandparent at some point in their lives. A grandparent&#8217;s illness and death can disrupt daily routines and send family emotions into high gear. Children who are too young to understand the complexities of what&#8217;s going on use their behavior to tell the adults in their life that they&#8217;re having difficulty dealing with the change.
To help you navigate this difficult period and provide your children with important coping skills, consider these guidelines.

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When a Grandparent Dies

At some point in their childhood, most children will experience the death of a friend. It can be challenging to break the news to a child that his or her friend is gone. The death of a friend is difficult for children to understand. How kids respond depends greatly on their age, experiences, and personality. And when a peer dies, a child may be afraid that something similar could happen to them.
These tips will help you prepare how to best support a child.

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When a Friend Dies

Learn what grief and loss looks like to a preschool-age child, and what you can do to help.

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Understanding What Grief and Loss Looks Like to a Preschooler

There are two types of losses that occur in everyone’s life. “Maturational losses” predictably occur during the life cycle. “Situational losses” are caused by unexpected or unusual circumstances.
Children will likely experience both types during the preschool years, and will need adult support and recognition of these losses.

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Understanding Maturational and Situational Losses

A guide to understanding how children process death at different ages and how to help.

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Navigating the Grief of Children After a Death

Tips for talking to children about death.

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How to Talk to Kids About Death

During times of stress, such as that which accompanies grief and loss, be aware of the way your culture (and that of parents), affects your ability to communicate effectively and with sensitivity. The expression of grief and loss will look very different within every family.
Culturally diverse rituals and traditions may create mixed signals and inappropriate assumptions.

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How to Communicate Cross-Culturally with Parents

Children need lots of love and support from the caring adults in their life to cope with the loss and reach constructive grief resolution. When talking with children about death, adults should speak on the child’s developmental level, be respectful of cultural backgrounds, and show sensitivity towards the situation. Listen to what the child is really asking and saying.

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How Caring Adults Can Support a Grieving Young Child

Young children can have a hard time understanding illness and disease. Because they can really only understand what they can observe with their senses, it is very difficult for them to understand the biology of the body and how illness effects the person. The child may feel responsible for the family member’s illness and may question whether they, too, will become ill.
When someone in the child’s family is seriously ill, whether it is physical or mental, the whole family is thrown off balance and the child’s life changes. It is a challenge to meet the needs of the sick member and keep the healthy child’s life as stable and normal as possible. This is where the child care provider can step in and take a supportive role.

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Helping a Child Cope With the Serious Illness of a Family Member

Children spend a great deal of their time in preschool with teachers and other children. Even at the earliest of ages, young children develop meaningful relationships with their classmates. Teachers have important roles in the lives of children and when they are suddenly absent for a long period from school a child suffers a loss. It is helpful to explain to a child if a teacher is leaving due to changing schools, classrooms, or even leaving the job altogether. Classmates and friends often move away for various reasons. Preparing a child for this change will pave the way to a smooth transition.

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Helping a Child Cope With the Loss of a Teacher or Classmate

A variety of helpful tips for helping children cope with stress, especially after a loss.

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Helping a Child Cope with Stress

Other than the death of a parent, the breakup of a family can have the most devastating effect on children. Their lives change permanently as divorce is not a temporary state; it is an on-going process often involving parental conflicts, custody battles, and families fighting. The child witnesses and experiences everything.

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Helping a Child Cope With Separation and Divorce

When a natural disaster occurs, children need to know that they are safe and will be kept safe. Will I be okay? Will you be okay? Will everyone I know be okay?

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Helping a Child Cope With Natural Disasters

Tips to help children cope with military deployment.

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Helping a Child Cope With Military Deployment

If a child suffers from an illness requiring a hospital stay, it is a stressful time for the entire family. Not only is it a challenging and unfamiliar experience, the child may also come face to face with some real fears and, therefore, be quite anxious. Parents are worried about the well-being of their child and possible financial strains.

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Helping a Child Cope With Illness and Hospitalization

In a study released May 2005, of nearly 4,000 state-funded pre-kindergarten classes randomly selected across the nation, 10.4 percent of pre-kindergarten (pre-k) teachers reported at least one expulsion in their classes during the past 12 months. A rate of 6.7 expulsions per 1,000 preschoolers enrolled in state-funded programs nationally was reported.
Learn more about preschool expulsion and why this is a serious problem.

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Expulsion Prevention Resources for Early Care and Education Programs

As you review the practices in your classroom, don’t forget about a very important area of child development: learning social and emotional skills (or how to get along with others and how to understand and express feelings in an appropriate way). Social and emotional skills are the foundation of all learning in the early years and teachers who focus on helping children develop these skills are truly getting them ready for school!
This checklist will help you review your classroom through a social-emotional lens.

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For Teachers: Social-Emotional Checklist of Early Care and Education Practices

As you observe the practices in the classrooms you serve, don’t forget about a very important area of child development: learning social and emotional skills (or how to get along with others and how to understand and express feelings in an appropriate way). Social and emotional skills are the foundation of all learning in the early years and teachers who focus on helping children develop these skills are truly getting them ready for school!
This checklist will help you observe classrooms in your caseload through a social-emotional lens.

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For TA Providers: Social-Emotional Checklist of Early Care and Education Practices

This checklist will help you observe classrooms in your program through a social-emotional lens. Spend some time in each classroom and ask yourself if you would enjoy spending your days there. How does it feel to you? Look around the physical space, notice how  the day flows and observe the teachers interacting with children.

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For Program Administrators: Social-Emotional Checklist of Early Care and Education Practices

The Healthy Social Behaviors Project supports teachers to develop pro-social early childhood learning environments that help to prevent suspension and expulsion, as related to challenging behaviors. Learn more in this statewide flyer.

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About the Healthy Social Behaviors Project

Esta Guía de Rutinas Familiares se desarrolló con el fin de ayudar a los padres de familia y cuidadores a desarrollar planes para apoyar a niños pequeños que experimentan comportamientos difíciles.
La Guía de Rutinas Familiares abarca estrategias para las rutinas y actividades que ocurren comúnmente todas las semanas en la vida familiar. Incluye hoja de planificación para las familias.

Guía de Rutinas Familiares

Guía de Rutinas Familiares

This Family Routine Guide was developed to assist parents and caregivers in developing a plan to support young children who are using challenging behavior.
The Family Routine Guide includes strategies for the common routines and activities that occur during the family&#8217;s week, and contains family planning sheets.

The Family Routine Guide (English)

The Family Routine Guide (English)

The information in this brochure is simply a guide to what is typical development, and what behaviors might be worth asking about. If a behavior seems unusual, happens over and over or goes on for a long time, this may mean your child needs extra help. Catching problems at an early age usually makes them a lot easier to solve. Help is available!

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Plays Well with Others: A Guide to a Young Child’s Social and Emotional Development

One of the greatest benefits for children experiencing quality early care and education with other children is that he or she has the opportunity to develop his or her social skills. It is well known that children who can make and keep friends with adults and with other children are more likely to be successful in school and in life (Ladd, 2005). Quality early learning environments offer ongoing opportunities and supports for ALL children to develop appropriate &#8220;prosocial&#8221; skills.
This guide will help you understand what to look for in a learning environment.

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What To Look For in a High-Quality, Inclusive Preschool Prosocial Learning Environment

As you look for child care don’t forget about a very important area of child development: learning social and emotional skills (or how to get along with others and how to understand and express feelings in an appropriate way). Social and emotional skills are the foundation of all learning in the early years and teachers who focus on helping children develop these skills are truly getting them ready for school!
This checklist will help you view a classroom through a social-emotional lens.
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Classroom Social Emotional Checklist for Parents

The &#8220;Making Life Easier&#8221; series is designed specifically for parents and caregivers.
This series of tipsheets contains valuable information on how to make often challenging events easier to navigate, and even enjoyable, for both caregivers and children.
Tipsheets are available in English, Spanish and Chinese.
(View accordion near the bottom of the page)
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Making Life Easier Resources – National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

Access a range of valuable Family Article tip sheets on the following topics:
<ul>
<li>Make the Most of Playtime</li>
<li>Responding to Your Child&#8217;s Bite</li>
<li>Teaching Your Child About Feelings &#8211; from Birth to Age 2</li>
<li>Teaching Your Child to Become Independent with Daily Routines</li>
<li>Teaching Your Child to Cooperate with Requests</li>
<li>Teaching Your Child to Identify and Express Emotions</li>
<li>Understanding your Child&#8217;s Behavior: Reading Your Child&#8217;s Cues from Birth to Age 2</li>
</ul>
Most tip sheets are available in English and Spanish. Access them in the accordion near the bottom of the page.

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Family Articles Resources – National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

NCPMI extends and deepens the work of numerous faculty members and research scholars from multiple institutions who have contributed to the development of the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social and Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children.
Find out more about the NCPMI&#8217;s history.

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History of the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI)

The Backpack Connection Series was created by TACSEI to provide a way for teachers and parents/caregivers to work together to help young children develop social emotional skills and reduce challenging behavior.
Each Backpack Connection handout provides information that helps parents stay informed about what their child is learning at school and specific ideas on how to use the strategy or skill at home. This series was developed in collaboration with Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion and Bal Swan Children&#8217;s Center in Broomfield, Colorado.
The Backpack Connection Series includes handouts in four categories &#8211; Addressing Behavior, Emotions, Routines and Schedules and Social Skills &#8211; available in English, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese.
(View accordion near bottom of the page)

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Backpack Connection Series Resources – National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

Various resources to help children of incarcerated &amp; returning parents.

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Resources for Children of Incarcerated & Returning Parents

NC CCR&amp;R Regional System FY20 Healthy Social Behavior Specialists with contact information.

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2020 Statewide HSB Map/Specialists/Resource Lists

Well-planned and well-stocked learning centers increase the likelihood that children will engage in play and learning with each other. They decrease the likelihood of challenging behaviors. Consider these suggestions when designing and maintaining learning centers.
Reprinted from Young Children

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Helping Children Play and Learn Together

This guide contains eight practical tips for parents of young children with challenging behavior.

Healthy Social Behaviors Project (HSB)