Category: Infant-Toddler

  • Pat Them Gently by Melanie O’Brien

    Pat Them Gently by Melanie O’Brien

    These easy-to-use guides were created especially for teachers/caregivers and parents to provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines. Each book nook is comprised of ideas and activities designed around popular children’s books.

  • No Biting by Karen Katz; Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher

    No Biting by Karen Katz; Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher

    These easy-to-use guides were created especially for teachers/caregivers and parents to provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines. Each book nook is comprised of ideas and activities designed around popular children’s books.

  • Hands Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi

    Hands Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi

    These easy-to-use guides were created especially for teachers/caregivers and parents to provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines. Each book nook is comprised of ideas and activities designed around popular children’s books.

  • Introduction to the Pyramid Model

    Introduction to the Pyramid Model

    This module introduces the Pyramid Model framework to participants and should be used before the other modules. Topics include: the relationship of the Pyramid Model to prevention science, equity, inclusion, trauma-informed care, anti-bias practice and the use of data for decision-making, understanding child behavior, and the research that provides an evidence-base for the use of…

  • Responding to Your Child’s Bite

    Responding to Your Child’s Bite

    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. This handout provides information on why children bite,…

  • Leading with Compassion: Building Trauma-Informed Pyramid Model Programs

    Leading with Compassion: Building Trauma-Informed Pyramid Model Programs

    Leadership practices for creating systems and relationships that support staff, families, and children.

  • Things That Will Help Me Stay Calm – Toddlers (PDF)

    Things That Will Help Me Stay Calm – Toddlers (PDF)

    Toddlers experience big emotions as they learn to make meaning of their world and communicate their needs. Toddlers look to their primary caregivers to let them what they are experiencing is okay. Caregivers can use the strategies included in this infographic to provide toddlers with predictability in their day, safety in relationships, meaning to their…

  • Look-Think-Act: TPOT/TPITOS

    Look-Think-Act: TPOT/TPITOS

    The Leadership Team can use this document to guide the three steps of data review and decision-making (Look-Think-Act). The guide provides the information on the data to review, the questions to consider, and potential actions. This guide is used with the data summaries of TPOT or TPITOS.