Category: Practical Strategies

  • Self-Regulation Skills: Breathing Strategies

    Self-Regulation Skills: Breathing Strategies

    Use these strategies and visual to teach children self-regulation through controlled breathing and belly breathing.

  • Problem-Solving Steps

    Problem-Solving Steps

    Problem solving steps strategies and poster. Includes boy and girl versions.

  • Feeling Wheel (English-Spanish)

    Feeling Wheel (English-Spanish)

    The Feeling Faces assist children with understanding their feelings and the feelings of others. It is important to teach children words to use to express feelings in replace of the use of challenging behavior. The feeling faces that follow can be used in a variety of ways to help children learn social emotional skills around…

  • Solution Kit: Classroom Edition

    Solution Kit: Classroom Edition

    Use the solution kit cards as prompts to assist in problem-solving.

  • Greeting Board (English-Spanish)

    Greeting Board (English-Spanish)

    Use this visual choice board to help young children select and use a classroom greeting. Options include contact and contactless greetings.

  • Starters for Giving Positive Feedback and Encouragement
  • Self-Care for Teachers

    Self-Care for Teachers

    When children engage in behavior that pushes your buttons, it is important to be intentional in how you respond. This resource provides strategies that you might use when a child’s behavior pushes your buttons to help you respond in a way that is supportive of the child.

  • Positive Feedback and Encouragement

    Positive Feedback and Encouragement

    Providing positive encouragement is a powerful practice for helping children meet behavior expectations. This fact sheet provides ideas for how caregivers can deliver positive encouragement.

  • Communication is Key

    Communication is Key

    Providing directions in a positive way is a powerful practice for helping children meet behavior expectations. This resource provides ideas for how caregivers can state directions in positive terms.

  • 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.

  • Our Preschool Rules

    Our Preschool Rules

    Use this scripted story to teach a child about the expectations and rules associated with going to school.