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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood: Part One | In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel begin a three-part series on what expulsion means in early childhood and how it affects children and families. | Podcast |
| Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood: Part Three | In the final podcast on expulsion, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel will talk about proactive steps to prevent expulsion from occurring | Podcast |
| Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood: Part Two | As we continue a conversation about expulsion in early childhood, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel will describe the unique Minnesota program called Inclusion Coaching offered through the Center for Inclusive Child Care. This program is a support that can help prevent expulsion and suspension. | Podcast |
| Put On Your Oxygen Mask First | Children who are exhibiting challenging behavior need interactions with calm, clear-headed adults. In order to effectively support children, teachers and other adults in their lives must learn how to monitor their own reactions and responses to project calm. That means adults must practice self-care as well as have “in the moment” strategies for getting calm themselves. Here are some tools and ideas. | Website |
| Questions to Ask When Seeking Child Care: Setting Your Child Up for Success | When seeking child care, how do you find the information you need to set your child up for success and avoid expulsion As you interview potential caregivers, it helps to be proactive. Start the conversation with the questions on this tip sheet. | Tipsheet |
| Resources to Share with Families on Expulsion | This website contains articles, links, and tools that can either be directly shared with family members or used to help staff think about how to communicate with families about challenging behavior. | Website |
| Suspensions Are Not Support: The Disciplining of Preschoolers with Disabilities | Children in preschool and early childhood programs are suspended or expelled at a rate three times higher than school-aged children. However, exclusionary discipline practices might not always carry these labels – suspended and expelled. | Document |
| Tools for Your Toolbox: Strategies to Meet Challenging Behaviors | Explore tools for working with children who have challenging behaviors, including environmental and programmatic adaptations. Explore specific guidance strategies that support sensory, developmental, and temperament needs of all children. Knowledge and Competency Framework Area - II.C: Promoting Social and Emotional Development CDA Content Area - III: Positive ways to support children’ social and emotional development This course is accessible from a mobile device. For optimal performance, viewing from a computer or tablet is highly recommended. For ten clock hours on your Learning Record, please register and pay online at Develop. Then, complete a 500-word reflection paper and submit this document with your reflection. Please note: You have access to this document as view only. To enable editing, download the document. Click "file" then "download as" in the upper left-hand corner of this screen. This will give you the option to open the document as a Word doc on your own computer. Then, you can complete the information and email it to: credit@inclusivechildcare.org. *Disregard any directions regarding a final quiz. The only learning assessment needed is the reflection paper. | Course |
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