Overview
Over the years, Pyramid Model evidence-based practices have been implemented in many early childhood settings.
Train your team in age or sector specific practices for promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development.
Explore the content we offer for each age range or sector!
Preschool Modules
Preschool Modules
The Pyramid Model Preschool Module Series is a 6-part series dedicated to understanding, teaching, and providing practices to support the social and emotional developmental needs of preschoolers.
This series is designed to be presented in many ways, over a varying number of days and hours.
Target Audience:
All Early Childhood staff and team members supporting children ages 2 through 5 years.
Prerequisites:
✓
None
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 the Pyramid Model.
Preschool Module 1: Nurturing and Responsive Relationships
Establishing nurturing and responsive relationships within a caring community is the foundation of the Pyramid Model. This training focuses on practices for building relationships with children, promoting relationships between children, relationships with families that affirm family culture and identity, and relationships with team members.
Preschool Module 2: High-Quality, Supportive Environments
This module focuses on the practices for establishing high-quality supportive classroom environments that promote social-emotional skill development and prevent challenging behavior. Practices related to schedules, routines, transitions, promoting engagement, expectations, and rules are addressed in this module.
Preschool Module 3: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills
Promoting social-emotional development is core to the Pyramid Model. This module provides training on the practices for teaching friendship skills, emotional literacy, self-regulation, and problem-solving.
Preschool Module 4: Individualized Teaching of Social-Emotional Skills
This module guides practitioners in how to individualize instruction on social-emotional skills for children who need more targeted support. Practices that are taught include: teaching systematically, peer-mediated intervention, planning for embedded instruction, and progress monitoring.
Preschool Module 5: Addressing Challenging Behavior
This module provides the practices for understanding child challenging behavior, how to respond to challenging behavior, becoming aware of bias in responding, de-escalating behavior, and the components of developing a behavior support plan for children with persistent challenging behavior.
Preschool Module 6: Overview of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children
In this module, practitioners learn about the steps of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children (PTR-YC) and how PTR-YC is used as a manualized process for conducting a functional behavioral assessment and developing a behavior support plan.
Infant-Toddler Modules
Infant Toddler Modules
The Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, is an 8-part series dedicated to understanding, teaching, and providing practices to support the social and
emotional developmental needs of infants and toddlers.
This series is designed to be presented in many ways, over a varying number of days and hours.
Target Audience:
All Early Childhood staff and team members supporting children ages 0 to 3 years.
Prerequisites:
✓
None
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 the Pyramid Model.
Infant-Toddler Module 1: Introduction and Understanding Social-Emotional Development
As the first training module in the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, Understanding Social-Emotional Development will acquaint participants with the Pyramid Model, introduce important terms that will be used throughout the Pyramid Model training modules, and lay a foundation to better understand the role caregivers play in young children’s social-emotional development.
Infant-Toddler Module 2: Focusing on Relationships
In Focusing on Relationships, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, participants will explore the importance and complexities of developing relationships between caregivers, families, and children. Participants should leave understanding that social-emotional development takes place within the context of relationships, so strategies to support development must prioritize building relationships. This training covers topics such as reflecting on participants’ past and current relationships, as well as addressing issues related to culture, diversity, race, equity, risk, and protective factors.
Infant-Toddler Module 3: Responsive Routines, Schedules, and Environments
In Responsive Routines, Schedules, & Environments, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module series, participants will learn how being intentional about establishing daily routines and setting up the environment can: help young children feel confident and secure, paving the way for social-emotional growth; promote children’s active and safe exploration and learning; and facilitate positive child-peer and adult-child interactions.
Infant-Toddler Module 4: Understanding Behavior
Working with infants and toddlers is rewarding, but it can also sometimes be challenging. In Understanding Behavior, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, participants will learn how to use observation to better understand child behavior. We will look at the many influences affecting behavior and use this knowledge to examine our own beliefs. We will practice reframing our thoughts to better respond to challenging situations.
Infant-Toddler Module 5: Teaching About Feelings
In Teaching About Feelings, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, participants will explore what the development of emotional literacy looks like (i.e., labeling feelings in self and others, recognizing facial and physiological signs, modulating responses, developing coping strategies) and share a variety of strategies teachers can use to support and teach the young early learners in our care about feelings.
Infant-Toddler Module 6: Promoting Positive Peer Interactions
In Positive Peer Interactions, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, participants will gain knowledge on how to facilitate positive peer interactions and support the development of social and friendship skills, learn about the developmental stages of social and play skills, and apply that knowledge to classroom practices.
Infant-Toddler Module 7: Individualized Teaching
In Individualized Teaching, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, participants will learn how to identify and address delays in social-emotional development. The module provides an overview of the screening and assessment process and guidance on how to develop a systematic plan to provide individualized teaching to children who have delays.
Infant-Toddler Module 8: Challenging Behavior
In Challenging Behavior, a module of the Pyramid Model Infant-Toddler Module Series, participants will: identify and define challenging behavior, and work to understand why challenging behavior happens; discuss how to gather data and implement strategies that will prevent challenging behavior; and discuss strategies to address or respond effectively to challenging behavior when it is present.
Family Child Care Home Modules
Family Child Care Home Modules
This series is designed to be presented in many ways, over a varying number of days and hours.
Target Audience:
Family Child Care Providers
Prerequisites:
✓
None
This training introduces the Pyramid Model as a framework for promoting social-emotional development and addressing challenging behaviors in family child care (FCC) settings. It guides FCC providers through understanding and implementing the Pyramid Model practices within the unique context of FCC. The training will help you identify and apply Pyramid Model strategies intentionally across mixed-age groups, including infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, while addressing the distinctive features of FCC homes, such as flexible schedules, nurturing environments, and close family relationships. Designed for anyone working in or supporting FCC, the content emphasizes building strong, responsive relationships, creating high-quality environments, and teaching social-emotional skills to children of all ages. It also delves into trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices, addresses provider well-being, and leverages family-centered approaches. Practical tools and resources, including several video examples, align with best practices and support the use of high-quality Pyramid Model strategies.
Module 1: Overview of the Pyramid Model in Family Child Care
Module 2: Social and Emotional Development for Family Child Care Providers
Module 3: Family Engagement and Family-Centered Practices
Module 4: Cultural Responsiveness and Family Child Care
Module 5: Nurturing and Responsive Relationships
Module 6: Creating a High-Quality, Supportive Environment for All Ages
Module 7: Social-Emotional Teaching
Module 8: Social-Emotional Teaching – Friendship Skills and Emotional Literacy
Module 9: Social-Emotional Teaching – Self-Regulation and Problem-Solving Skills
Module 10: Addressing Challenging Behaviors
Module 11: Collecting and Using Data in Family Child Care Homes
Module 12: Time Management, Organization, Wellness, and Teaming
Early Intervention Modules
Early Intervention Modules
This series is designed to be presented in many ways, over a varying number of days and hours.
Target Audience:
Early Interventionists and supporting team members
Prerequisites:
✓
None
These modules will guide participants through the Early Intervention Pyramid Model Practices Training. They will help individuals identify and understand the Pyramid Model practices within the context of early intervention/Part C. The knowledge acquired from these modules will help build an awareness of what the Pyramid Model practices in early intervention are, and how to use them with more intention throughout your work with families. The modules are for anyone who is working with and coaching families with infants and toddlers. The practices identified in this training are aligned with the Early Interventionist Pyramid Practices Fidelity Instrument, also known as the EIPPFI, which is a tool that can be used by early interventionists and coaches when building staff capacity in implementing high-quality Pyramid Model practices.
