Tiers
Collaboration with specialists and focused interventions based on a comprehensive assessment are characteristic of this tier.
What is Red Tier (Tertiary Intervention) - Intensive Intervention.
This framework emphasizes preventing challenging behaviors by addressing underlying social and emotional needs.
What is the Pyramid Model.
The Pyramid Model is not a curriculum, but rather this, for organizing effective social-emotional practices.
What is a framework?
The Pyramid Model aims to reduce the use of this in early childhood settings.
What are inappropriate discipline practices, such as suspension or expulsion.
Using the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT) helps assess this aspect of Pyramid Model implementation.
What is fidelity?
This tier focuses on providing additional support to children who are at risk for developing social-emotional challenges.
What is Green tier (Secondary Prevention)- Targeted social emotional supports.
According to the Pyramid Model, positive relationships with caregivers can help children develop this crucial skill for navigating stressful situations.
What is self-regulation?
Providing opportunities for children to make choices can promote their sense of competence and control, supporting this area of development.
What is social-emotional development?
This national center focuses on disseminating research and evidence-based practices related to the Pyramid Model.
What is The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations.
This refers to the systemic effort to implement the Pyramid Model effectively across a program or community.
What is program-wide implementation?
This tier includes practices like establishing routines, providing clear expectations, and promoting children's social-emotional skills through daily interactions.
What is the Blue Tier (Universal Promotion)- High quality supportive environments, nurturing and responsive relationships.
The Pyramid Model focuses on this age range of children.
What is birth to five years old?.
This organization offers training, technical assistance, and resources for implementing the Pyramid Model.
What is the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI)?
What instrument measures the fidelity of teacher implementation of the Pyramid Model practices?
What is Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT).
Explicit instruction and modeling are used to teach children this, across various settings and routines.
What are social-emotional skills?
This tier often involves a multidisciplinary team approach and may include the creation of a child's individualized behavior support plan.
What is Red Tier (Tertiary Intervention)- Intensive Intervention
The model is supported at the foundation by an effective workforce.
The foundation for all of the practices in the Pyramid Model are the systems and policies necessary to ensure a workforce able to adopt and sustain these evidence-based practices.
What is the effective workforce (Yellow Tier) Foundation
This important element of the Pyramid Model involves fostering strong connections between educators and families.
What is family engagement?
The Pyramid Model emphasizes the importance of data collection and using data to make these.
What are decisions.
When addressing challenging behavior, the Pyramid Model emphasizes first reflecting on staff responses and then considering this tier.
What are nurturing and responsive relationships (Tier 1)?(Blue)
Displaying children's artwork and photos of families are examples of building a culturally responsive environment within this Pyramid Model Tier.
What is the Blue Tier (Universal Promotion)- High quality supportive environments, nurturing and responsive relationships.
This model emphasizes the importance of family engagement and collaboration between educators, caregivers, and other professionals.
What is the Pyramid Model.
The Pyramid Model was developed to help early educators build skills in several areas, including nurturing and responsive caregiving, creating learning environments, providing targeted social-emotional skills, and supporting children with this type of behavior.
What is challenging behavior?
Ongoing support and training are crucial for successful implementation of the Pyramid Model in this type of setting.
What are Early Childhood Programs/Classrooms.
A leadership team, data-based decision-making, and family engagement are key elements of this.
What is successful Pyramid Model implementation?