5/3/2016 1 PRESCHOOL INCLUSION: BUILDING COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE TO INCLUDE EVERYONE AND EXCLUDE NO ONE Tracie Dickson, OSEP, US ED Barbara J. Smith, University of Colorado Denver (ECTA) Mary Louise Hemmeter, Vanderbilt University Rosemarie Allen, Metro State Inclusion Institute, May 2016 Federal Policy Statements Expulsion and Suspension in Early Childhood Settings Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs Presentation Overview •Overview of Federal Policy Statements •Resources and Future Federal Activities Federal Policy Statements •Issued joint policy statements on matters of pressing concern to all early childhood programs regardless of setting or funding stream •Creates a common language and vision for States and local programs to work from across settings and funding streams Federal Policy Statements: An Dynamic Approach to High Quality Inclusion •HHS/ED are taking a dynamic approach to ensuring that young children have access to high quality early learning programs. •That approach integrates high quality inclusion, family engagement and decreasing disparities. •Announcing new Family Engagement Policy Statement •Together these Policy Statements will help to ensure that comprehensive services along with family engagement leads to better outcomes for infants, toddlers, young children and their families. Federal Policy Statement Purposes •Raise awareness; •Provide recommendations to early childhood programs and States; •Highlight early childhood workforce competencies and evidence- based interventions and approaches; •Identify free resources to support States, programs, teachers, and providers; and •Identify free resources to support families in fostering young children’s development in inclusive settings, social-emotional and behavioral health, and relationships.
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PRESCHOOL INCLUSION: BUILDING COMPETENCE AND CONFIDENCE TO INCLUDE
EVERYONE AND EXCLUDE NO ONE
Tracie Dickson, OSEP, US ED Barbara J. Smith, University of Colorado Denver (ECTA)
Mary Louise Hemmeter, Vanderbilt University Rosemarie Allen, Metro State
Inclusion Institute, May 2016
Federal Policy Statements
Expulsion and Suspension in Early
Childhood Settings
Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early
Childhood Programs
Presentation Overview
•Overview of Federal Policy Statements
•Resources and Future Federal Activities
Federal Policy Statements
•Issued joint policy statements on matters of
pressing concern to all early childhood
programs regardless of setting or funding
stream
•Creates a common language and vision for
States and local programs to work from across
settings and funding streams
Federal Policy Statements: An Dynamic
Approach to High Quality Inclusion
•HHS/ED are taking a dynamic approach to ensuring
that young children have access to high quality early
learning programs.
•That approach integrates high quality inclusion, family
engagement and decreasing disparities.
•Announcing new Family Engagement Policy Statement
•Together these Policy Statements will help to ensure
that comprehensive services along with family
engagement leads to better outcomes for infants,
toddlers, young children and their families.
Federal Policy Statement
Purposes
•Raise awareness;
•Provide recommendations to early childhood programs and States;
•Highlight early childhood workforce competencies and evidence-based interventions and approaches;
•Identify free resources to support States, programs, teachers, and providers; and
•Identify free resources to support families in fostering young children’s development in inclusive settings, social-emotional and behavioral health, and relationships.
“I’ve never seen a case where a child was expelled from a preschool or child care program when the teachers and parents knew and liked
each other. I’ve never seen it once.”
The Pyramid Model: Promoting Social-Emotional Competence and
Addressing Challenging Behavior
Universal promotion: All children
CLASSROOM SCHEDULES
TRANSITIONS
PEER SUPPORT
LARGE GROUP
The Pyramid Model: Promoting Social-Emotional Competence and
Addressing Challenging Behavior
Secondary prevention: Some children
Teaching Social Skills and
Emotional Competencies
The Pyramid Model: Promoting Social-Emotional Competence and
Addressing Challenging Behavior
Tertiary intervention: Few children
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Individualized Intensive Interventions
• Comprehensive interventions across all settings
• Assessment-based
• Collaborative team
• Skill-building
INDIVIDUALIZING FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES…
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Status of Pyramid Practices in EC Classrooms
TPOT study n=50
Efficacy study n=40
Distance coaching n=33
Mean Range Mean Range Mean Range
Environ-mental items
6.0 3-7 5.05 3-6 6.34 4-7
Red flags 3.0 0-11 3.75 1-10 2.13 0-7
Percent of indicators
39.1% 14% to
73% 38.24%
16% to 74%
39.87% 14% to
66%
Practice-Based Coaching
Teacher Implementation of Pyramid Model Practices
Effect Sizes X Wave
Wave 2 d = .59
Wave 3 d = 1.14
Wave 4 d = 1.52
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Observations of Target Children’s Social Skills
Figure 2. Mean frequency of positive social interactions during 60 min observation session across waves for Cohort 1 target children whose teachers were in the intervention or control condition. An average of the frequency of positive social interactions for the 2 to 3 target children in each classroom was used to derive the means reported for each group at each wave.
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Access to Behavioral Supports Associated with Lower Expulsion
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The Promise, The Challenge
The Promise, The Challenge
Program Wide Implementation
So, what do we need to do…
• Develop program policies that reduce the likelihood of suspension/expulsion
• Make a program wide commitment to all children
• Support teachers: – Coaching and support in the classroom
– Reduce stress
• Engage with families around promotion, prevention and intervention
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So, what do we need to do…
• Develop process around behavior support for children with the most persistent problem behavior
• Provide access to mental health consultants
• Use data to track program incidences, behavior support planning, implementation etc.
Leadership Team
Family Engagement
Program-Wide Expectations
Supports for Pyramid Model Practice Implementation
Systems to Identify and Respond to Individual
Child Needs
Continuous Professional
Development
Data Decision-Making Examining Implementation and Outcomes
Outcomes Associated with Program Wide Implementation
• Improvements in classroom quality
• More intentional instruction around social skills and emotional competencies
• Better relationships with families
• Decrease in problem behavior, increase in social skills
• Decrease MH dollars spent on intervention
• Decrease turnover
Fox Friends’ Teacher Notes
Dear Cameron,
We have loved having you in our classroom this year. It has been so much fun watching
you grow this year. You are such a special and amazing person. You have taught us many
things this year. Some of the lessons we will keep in our heart are:
1. Names are merely suggestions and really changing your name or adding an animal
to it makes things much more interesting.
2. Sometimes you just need a hand on your back to make scary things less scary.
3. Four minutes is just the right amount of time one needs to get ready to do a new task.
4. Anything can become a drum.
5. There’s no obstacle that a little love and patience cannot overcome.
We will miss you, Cameron, but we will have you in our hearts.