Location: Iowa

  • 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.

  • Our Preschool Rules

    Our Preschool Rules

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

  • We Can Be Problem Solvers!

    We Can Be Problem Solvers!

    Scripted story to help children understand the steps to problem solving. Includes problem scenario cards to help children practice finding a solution to common social problems.

  • I Can Be a Super Friend!

    I Can Be a Super Friend!

    Scripted Stories for Social Situations help children understand social interactions, situations, expectations, social cues, the script of unfamiliar activities, and/or social rules.

  • 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…

  • Leadership Team Implementation Manual

    Leadership Team Implementation Manual

    The Leadership Team Implementation Manual provides leadership teams with the resources, forms, and ideas to guide program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model within classroom programs. Each section of the manual aligns to a critical element of the Early Childhood Program-Wide Benchmarks of Quality. The manual is ideally used by leadership teams in their initial training…

  • All About My Child (Spanish)

    All About My Child (Spanish)

    This document is designed to be used to gather information about the children in your classrooms. It will provide teachers with important information to help them build a relationship with each and every child and family.

  • All About My Child

    All About My Child

    This document is designed to be used to gather information about the children in your classrooms. It will provide teachers with important information to help them build a relationship with each and every child and family.

  • Introducing the Solution Kit!

    Introducing the Solution Kit!

    Letter addressed to families announcing the use of the solution kit at the program.

  • Re-Connecting and Building Relationships with Infants

    Re-Connecting and Building Relationships with Infants

    Use this tip sheet to help practitioners of infants and toddlers intentionally plan and think about how to reconnect, help children transition back to the classroom, and support children’s social and emotional development after being away from the program.

  • Program-Wide Implementation

    Program-Wide Implementation

    Overview of program-wide implementation to use in the recruitment of implementation sites. Describes components, considerations, and addresses frequently asked questions.