Powerpoint Presentations:
 Partners in Implementing Good Start
Grow Smart
Slide 1
Partners in Implementing Good Start Grow Smart
The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning
Jointly Funded by the Child Care Bureau and the Head Start
Bureau
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Social Emotional Development as a Foundation for School & Life
Success
- Some key indicators of school readiness that are linked
to social emotional development:
- Persistence at difficult tasks
- Ability to express emotions appropriately
- Ability to make and sustain relationships with peers and
adults
- Confidence
- Ability negotiate and cooperate in a group setting
- When children don't have these skills, they are less likely
to benefit from even the best instruction and they are more
likely to engage in challenging behavior
- What we know about social development in preschool and
children's later life success
Slide 3
Center Collaborators
University of Illinois
Mary Louise Hemmeter - PI
Rob Corso
Amy Santos
Micki Ostrosky
Tweety Yates
University of Colorado at Denver
Phil Strain - Co-PI
Barbara Smith
University of South Florida
Glen Dunlap
Lise Fox
Education Development Center
Philip Printz
University of Connecticut
Mary Beth Bruder
Nancy Gordon
Tennessee Voices for Children
Matt Timm
Diane Dixon
Project Officers
Ann Linehan - Head Start
Linda Reese-Smith - Child Care
Slide 4
CSEFEL Goal
To Strengthen the Capacity of Head Start and Child Care to
Promote the Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning
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Outcomes
- Increased awareness about the importance of social/emotional
development
- Increased capacity of T/TA systems to support the use of
evidence-based practices at the local level
- Increased support for T/TA providers and direct service
providers through professional organizations, institutions
of higher education and federal offices
- Local demonstration sites
- Materials and products for a range of audiences
- Network of experts on social and emotional foundations
of learning
- Positive outcomes for children and families!!!
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Guiding Principles
- Promotion and Prevention
- Comprehensiveness
- Intensity
- Clear criteria for efficacy
- Cost and time efficiency
- Long term essential outcomes
- Family-centeredness
- Cultural and linguistic sensitivity
- Collaboration with and responsiveness to consumers
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Identify Evidence-Based Practices
Topical Areas
- Positive parenting practices
- Classroom practices
- Social emotional curriculum and intervention practices
- Intensive child and family interventions
- Policy, leadership and systems change
- Culturally and linguistically sensitive practices
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Identify Evidence-Based Practices
"What Works" briefs on the following topics:
- Understanding the impact of language differences on behavior
- Helping children understand routines and classroom rules
- Helping children make transitions between activities
- Using classroom activities and routines to support peer
interaction
- Using environmental strategies to promote positive peer
interactions
Examples of Upcoming Briefs:
- Helping children learn to manage their own behavior
r teaching children about emotions
- Promoting positive peer social interactions
- Promoting emotional literacy
- Using social emotional curricula
Slide 9
Develop T/TA Materials
- Conduct focus groups - needs, preferences, & strategies
- Develop training materials
- Training modules
- Videos
Slide 10
Building a Foundation for Children
[pyramid: top to bottom]
- Individually Designed Interventions
- Curriculum Strategies and Proactive Approaches
- Supportive Learning Environments
Positive Relationships with Families, Children, and Colleagues
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Training Modules
- Classroom Preventive Practices/Building Relationships
- Social Emotional Teaching Practices
- Individualized Interventions for Challenging Behaviors
(2)
- Leadership and Administrative Supports
- Power of Change (Coming Soon!!!!)
- Positive Parenting (Coming Soon!!!!)
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Activities for Capacity Building
- Conduct national level dissemination activities
- Conduct strategic planning with state Head Start and Child
Care Teams
- Establish demonstration sites at the local level through
the use of Partners in Excellence (PIE) Teams
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Disseminate Information and Materials
- Develop linkages with professional organizations
- DEC
- NAEYC
- NACCRRA
- NBCDI
- NABE
- Create an interactive Web site
- Disseminate content and materials to 2- and 4-year colleges
and universities
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Disseminating Evidence Based Practices
- Importance of understanding audience - families, policy
makers, direct service staff, administrators
- Determine level of impact - awareness vs change in practice
- Match format and content of materials to audience
- Provide training and build supports - ongoing support is
necessary for sustaining change over time
- Identify and address barriers
- Ensure that a common message is being provided to all stakeholders
- direct service staff, administrative, policy, family
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Building Community Capacity around Children's Mental Health
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Collaborating with Mental Health Professionals
- Recognize the need for comprehensive, team-based services
that go beyond the early care and education setting
- Acknowledge the expertise of all team members including
the family
- Build on the expertise of each team member in order to
effectively address challenging behavior
- Collect information on relationships, environments, teaching
strategies & the needs of the child & family
- Develop a plan that addresses the long term needs of children
and families as well as the short term needs of the early
care and education staff
Slide 17
For more information, visit our Web site at http://csefel.uiuc.edu or
contact
Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter or Dr. Rob Corso
at 61 Children's Research Center
51 Gerty Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
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