the Big Bs
These are principles of the Pyramid Model that are reinforced in Head Start classrooms.
What are the Big B's?
Brain systems that get activated repeatedly will change and the systems that don’t get activated won’t change is described with this rhyming concept.
What fires together wires together!
Every child needs [at least] one person who is this about him.
What is crazy?
Providing a direction or acknowledgment to an appropriate behavior while ignoring an inappropriate behavior is called this.
What is a positive opposite?
Keeping feet on the floor, maintaining personal space, walking feet in hallways, etc. are examples of this Big B.
What is Be Safe?
This is a traumatic experience that occurs between 0-6 years of age
What is early childhood trauma?
When emotions are strong, the first affect to regulate is this one.
What is your own?
Following the child's lead, joining in, describing the child's play, encouraging creativity and imagination, and having fun are aspects of this.
What is powerful playing?
Calmer and increased positive behaviors are created and allowed when these are given from adults.
What are praises and acknowledging the positive behaviors?
This Big B introduces and reinforces social/emotional principles.
What is Be Kind?
Temper tantrums, bedwetting (regression), trouble switching between tasks, and avoidance of certain situations are in this category.
What are responses to traumatic stress?
This curriculum utilizes four colors to support emotional literacy and use of positive coping skills.
What is the Zones of Regulation?
Research is showing 5-10 minutes of this can improve a child's self-esteem, mental wellbeing, and positive, prosocial behaviors.
What is Quality time?
Avoiding something, gaining something, or escaping from a task are the three aspects of this.
What is behavioral communication / functions of behavior?
Similar to Being Safe, this Big B lends skills to impulse control and safety of the classroom.
What is Be careful with our things?
Complex trauma that leads to our "alarm system" going off two frequently can ultimately result in this phenomenon.
What is "flipping our lid?"
Lowering your body, voice volume, complexity of language is the beginning of what intervention to manage big behaviors?
What is low and slow?
Connecting learning and wellness with this allows functional life skill building and interrupts fight or flight.
What is Mindfulness?
Bad attitude, lazy, ADHD, controlling, stubborn, or non-compliant are examples of this.
What is a judgment?
In order to appropriately behave (and make it Better), children need to be this.
What is directly taught?
What are protective factors to support mental wellness?
Changing the setting event or antecedent leads to regulation, and are aspects of ensuring you are doing this in this zone color.
What is intervening in the green?
After the 'low' aspects of Low and Slow, the 'slow' aspects reinforce this phenomenon between adult and child.
What is co-regulation?
Rather than responding through discipline, responding through this is a best practice for a broad lens of approaching behaviors.
What is compassion?