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Implementing the Pyramid Model Community-Wide: Benchmarks of Quality 2.0 (PDF)
The Community-Wide Benchmarks of Quality (CW-BoQ) was developed to provide Community Leadership Teams (CLT) with a tool to identify the critical elements for implementing the Pyramid Model for Promoting the Social and Emotional Competence of Infants and Young Children within early childhood education and care programs across the community. This tool might be used by…
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Implementing the Pyramid Model Community-Wide: Benchmarks of Quality 2.0 (Excel)
The Community-Wide Benchmarks of Quality (CW-BoQ) Excel workbook is used to enter and summarize CW-BoQ data.
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Effective Teaming Strategies
Conducting effective, productive and relational meetings is foundational to Pyramid Model implementation. This set of guidelines for facilitating meetings is evidence and practice based and, when implemented, will result in meetings where people feel their voices were heard and that produced outcomes.
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Preventing the Use of Restraint and Seclusion with Young Children: The Role of Effective, Positive Practices
In recent years, there have been major concerns expressed regarding the use of restraint and seclusion to control the behavior of children with disabilities and/or challenging behavior. In May of 2009, for example, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings regarding a number of cases in which seclusion and restraint were abused to the…
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State Leadership Team (SLT) Checklist of Sustainability Features
This checklist can help assess the SLT’s ability to work well as a team, make progress, and to ensure members are engaged and committed to the statewide implementation and scale-up work over time. The quality of teaming and decision-making is predictive of the productivity, commitment, and sustainability of the SLT itself as well as making…
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Statewide Implementation Guide
The Statewide Implementation Guide is an important resource for the use of this approach. The guide is based on results and evidence from the multi-year Pyramid Model implementation initiative in 25 states. It includes tools, materials, and examples derived from the Pyramid Model and ECTA’s DEC Recommended Practices implementation technical assistance (Smith et al., 2017).
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Roadmap #6 – Road Map to Statewide Implementation of the Pyramid Model
This document is a guide – a “Road Map” – for implementing widespread use of the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social and Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children and part of a series of guides from NCPMI. This particular Road Map was produced in collaboration with the Pyramid Model Consortium (PMC).
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Pyramid Model STATE Leadership Team Guidance for Preventing the Use of Suspension and Expulsion and Promoting Equitable, Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Practice
This document provides state leadership teams with guidance on how to prevent suspension and expulsion by integrating with existing efforts including Pyramid Model, Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS), inclusion and State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) efforts. This resource is organized around the Guiding Principles and Recommendations from the federal Joint…
