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Materials and assistance for childcare professionals, and those they serve, including info modules, tip sheets, documents, helpful URLs and self study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Preschool Expulsion and Why We Should Care | Children of color, particularly boys, have the greatest risk of losing their ECE placement due to expulsions and suspensions. This webinar explores these disparities in access and how programs can address them. | Website |
| Preventing Expulsion from Preschool and Child Care | Expulsion deprives young children of the benefit of early childhood education and may leave unaddressed the mental health issues that lead to challenging behaviors. Watch the Exploring Implicit Bias videos from Zero to Three to learn more. | Website |
| Preventing Expulsion in Child Care | Strategies to prevent suspension and expulsion of children with challenging behaviors. | Tipsheet |
| Preventing Expulsion in Early Childhood Settings | This self study highlights research findings and promising practices for supporting the early childhood community and intervening in challenging behaviors. 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 |
| Preventing Suspensions and Expulsions in Early Childhood Programs | The purpose of this guide is to provide relevant, specific recommended policies and practices that are actionable and address the underlying root causes and provide effective alternatives. The recommended policies and practices are based on the most important research for eliminating suspensions and expulsions in early childhood settings and were developed with guidance from a panel of national experts. | Website |
| Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood Part 1 | 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 2 | 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 |
| Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood Part 3 | In the final podcast on expulsion, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel will talk about proactive steps to prevent expulsion from occurring | 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 | How do you find the information you need to set your child up for success? As you interview perspective caregivers, it is helpful to be proactive and begin with the questions on this FAQ sheet. Share your child’s strengths, and then based on the caregiver’s answers, you can also have a conversation about some of your child’s unique needs and what tends to create success. | Document |
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