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    Positive Behavior Support: An Individualized Approach for Addressing Challenging Behavior

    1/1/04 - L. Fox, M. Duda

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. In high-quality early childhood programs, most...

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    Positive solutions for families: Eight practical tips for parents of young children with challenging behaviors

    1/1/06 - University of South Florida,, Department of Child and Family Studies,

    This four-page brochure provides parents with eight practical tips they can use when their young children exhibit challenging behavior. Each tip includes a brief explanation and an example to show parents how they might use the specific approach with their own family in everyday life. This product is also available in Spanish

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    Preventing challenging behavior in young children: Effective practices

    Alter, P., Conroy, M.

    The single best way to address challenging behaviors in young children today is to take steps to make sure that they never occur. While there is no universal panacea for preventing challenging behaviors, there are several broad-based early intervention strategies that researchers suggest to prevent challenging behaviors.

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    Proactive Culturally Responsive Discipline

    1/1/06 - Kathleen A. King, Nancy J. Harris-Murri, Alfredo J. Artiles

    The ways that schools intervene with students' challenging behavior have been historically "reactive, exclusionary, and ineffective." Traditional reactive discipline interventions include detention, suspension, and expulsion, all of which punish students by excluding them from school and limiting opportunity to receive positive support for behavior change. In this exemplar, the authors presented how one urban middle school in Phoenix, Arizona incorporates proactive discipline into the...

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    Program practices for promoting the social development of young children and addressing challenging behaviors.

    Fox, L.

    Evidence-based program practices are provided in this fact sheet. A comprehensive model of universal, secondary, and indicated prevention and intervention practices are described.

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    Reducing behavior problems in the elementary school classroom: A practice guide (NCEE #2008-012)

    1/1/08 - Epstein, M., Atkins, M. , Cullinan, D. , Kutash, K., Weaver, R.

    This Practice Guide, released by IES in September 2008, aims to help educators develop and implement prevention and intervention strategies that promote positive student behavior. The focus is building a plan so that education can be improved for individual students who might have behavior issues and the classroom as a whole. The guide presents recommendations and indicates the quality of the research base that supports them. It includes common questions and potential concerns that might...

  • Resource Catalog

    Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports,

    The ‘Resource Catalog’ provides an easy and quick way to browse PBIS resources.

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    Responding to your Child's Bite

    Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning,

    Many toddlers and young children bite. Developmentally, most toddlers don’t have enough words to express how they are feeling. They primarily rely on sounds and actions to communicate what they are thinking and feeling. Biting is one of the ways toddlers express their needs, desires, or feelings. While biting might be very frustrating, your child is not biting purposefully annoy you or hurt anyone. Your child might be biting to say, “I’m scared,” “People are crowding me,” or...

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    Response to Intervention and the Pyramid Model

    1/1/09 - Lise Fox , Judith Carta, Phil Strain , Glen Dunlap, Mary Louise Hemmeter

    Response to Intervention (RtI) offers a comprehensive model for the prevention of delays in learning and behavior. While this problem-solving framework was initially designed for application within Kindergarten to 12th grade programs, there is substantial research that supports the value of the model for application within early childhood programs. This paper provides an overview of RtI and discusses the Pyramid Model (Fox, Dunlap, Hemmeter, Joseph, & Strain, 2003) and its application for...

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    School-wide Positive Behavior Support

    1/1/08 - Rob Horner, George Sugai

    This presentation gives an overview of PBS including the logic, core features, implementation approach, and classroom managment.

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    Screening for delays and problem behavior (roadmap to effective intervention practices)

    1/1/09 - Henderson, J., Strain, P.

    The purpose of this document is to provide a brief overview of the use of screening and to help administrators and teachers choose appropriate instruments for implementing a screening program.

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    Strategies for Increasing Peer Social Interactions: Prompting and Acknowledgment

    1/1/05 - T. Bovey , P. Strain

    This What Works Brief is part of a continuing series of short, easy-to-read, “how to” information packets on a variety of evidence-based practices, strategies, and intervention procedures. The Briefs are designed to help teachers support young children’s social and emotional development. They include examples and vignettes that illustrate how practical strategies might be used in a variety of early childhood settings and home environments. Throughout the day, children engage in all...

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    Supporting infants and toddlers with challenging behavior

    Fox, L.

    This fact sheet provides guidance on program practices that may be used to support very young children with challenging behavior and their families.

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    Teaching Your Child to: Cooperate With Requests

    Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning,

    Young children can learn to follow adult expectations, including performing simple chores, if the expectations are developmentally appropriate (meaning they match what can be expected for children at that age) and are taught to the child. Below is information on what you might expect from your preschooler and some tips for helping your child learn and follow your requests.

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    Teaching Your Child to: Identify and Express Emotions

    Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning,

    Young children deal with many of the same emotions adults do. Children get angry, sad, frustrated, nervous, happy, or embarrassed, but they often do not have the words to talk about how they are feeling. Instead, they sometimes act out these emotions in very physical and inappropriate ways.

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    Test, Punish, and Push Out: How zero tolerance and high stakes testing funnel youth into the school to prison pipeline

    1/1/10 - The Advancement Project,

    "'Test, Punish, and Push Out' provides an overview of zero-tolerance school discipline and high-stakes testing, how they relate to each other, how laws and policies such as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) have made school discipline even more punitive, and the risk faced if these devastating policies are not reformed. The report explores: The common origins and ideological roots of zero tolerance and high-stakes testing; The current state of zero-tolerance school discipline across the...

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