The Teaching Pyramid:
Free Online Training Formats
(Available at no cost but may require creating an account.)
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
(CSEFEL) http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/training_modules.html
Promoting Social and Emotional Competence: Preschool Training Modules (English and
Spanish) include Facilitator’s Guide, PowerPoint presentations with scripts, handouts,
activities and video clips)
 Module 1 Promoting Children’s Success: Building Relationships and Creating
Supportive Environments
 Module 2 Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies
 Module 3a Individualizing Intensive Interventions: Determining the Meaning of
Challenging Behavior
 Module 3b Individualized Intensive Interventions: Developing a Behavior Support Plan
 Module 4 Leadership Strategies for Supporting Children’s Social and Emotional
Development Addressing Challenging Behavior
Preschool Parent Modules (includes facilitator guide, PowerPoint presentations with
scripts, and Family Workbook* in English/Spanish)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/training_parent.html
 Making Connection!
 Making it Happen!
 Why do Children do What They do?
 Teach Me What to do!
 Facing the Challenge (part 1)
 Facing the Challenge (part 2)
*Positive Solutions Workbook for Families (English/Spanish)
http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/trainings/positive_solutions_workbook.pdf
Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention
(TACSEI) http://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/resources/tools.htm
Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior (support for CSEFEL
Modules 3a and 3b) includes a user manual and zip file of teaching materials to support
effective strategies for intervening with young children with challenging behavior:
Folder 1 Getting Started: Tips and Forms
Folder 2: Buddy System Tips
Folder 3: Teacher Tools
Folder 4: Turtle Technique
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Visual Strategies
Scripted Stories
Circle Time Tips
Feeling Vocabulary
Home Kit
TACSEI Make and Take Workshops
http://www.challengingbehavior.org/communities/make_n_take/make_n_take_home.html
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Thoughtful Transitions Reduce Traffic Jams and Challenges
Reducing Challenging Behavior by Clarifying Expectations, Rules and Routines
Problem Solving Workshop
Iowa EC-PBIS
Train-Coach-Train 2013 https://app.box.com/s/9rg5sxh5mfh43da7e05k
Iowa partnered with SEFEL to create a model for delivering and supporting
implementation of the CSEFEL modules training content and the TACSEI Teaching Tools
in 2-hour sessions. Create a BOX account (personal account is free) at the link above in
order to view or download the 12 sessions created by the Iowa EC-PBIS team in
partnership with Iowa State University. Iowa has added a number of additional
YouTube videos and activities to the original CSEFEL/TACSEI training content.
Session 1: Effective Work Force: Teaching Strategies
Session 2: Behavior Expectations
Session 3: Relationships
Session 4: Classroom Design
Session 5: Schedules and Routines
Session 6: Directions and Feedback
Session 7: Emotional Literacy and Feedback
Session 8: Anger Management
Session 9: Problem Solving
Session 10: Teaching Friendship
Session 11: Identifying Form & Function of Behavior
Session 12: Teaching Tools for Young Children
For information contact Krista Van Hooser-Perin, ecpbis@iastate.edu.
Coming Soon: ePyramid modules
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Massachusetts Connected Beginnings
Foundations of the CSEFEL Pyramid Model Course 2010
http://connectedbeginnings.org/professionaldevelopment/training/csefel/foundations
Wheelock College in Massachusetts has posted online course materials
(English/Spanish) for a course combining elements from the CSEFEL infant toddler and
preschool training modules. The 15-hour course is divided into 6 sessions, 2 hours in
length. Three structured field assignments are recommended, each one-hour in length.
Funding for the course was provided by the Massachusetts Early Childhood
Comprehensive Systems Project, Department of Public Health, through the Maternal
Child Health Bureau, Health Resources Services Administration, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
TACSEI-CELL Integration
Implementing Effective Practices to Support Young Children’s Social Emotional, Language,
and Early Literacy Development | A Collaboration between TACSEI and CELL
http://earlyliteracylearning.org/TACSEI_CELL/START_HERE.html
The Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention (TACSEI) and the
Center for Early Literacy and Learning (CELL) developed a collaborative web-based
training to provide teachers with illustrations and tools for implementing practices for
promoting children’s social emotional competence and early literacy skills.
Classroom practices are organized in four levels. The first level describes practices
related to establishing responsive relationships with children and their families (level
one) and the second level includes practices related to providing supportive classroom
environments including activities and routines (level two). The third level includes
practices related to the provision of planned learning opportunities and targeted
interventions for children with special needs (level three) and the fourth level includes
practices related to the provision of individualized interventions to children with more
intensive support needs (level four).
The Head Start National Center for Quality Teaching and Learning
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ncqtl-teacher-time
The NCQTL has posted a variety of professional development resources supporting the
Pyramid model approach including a new web-based resource called Teacher
Time. Each month the hosts of Teacher Time broadcast a live webinar (45-60 min.) on
topics related to assisting preschool teachers to prevent and/or respond appropriately
to challenging behaviors. Anyone can view the webinars live by either joining
the Teacher Time community (sign in to create a free account) or simply showing up
online at the time/date of the broadcast. The webinars are also archived for later
viewing on demand. Each webinar includes video clips and practical strategies
consistent with evidence-based practices for young children. Many supporting materials
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are available from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning (CSEFEL). Dr. Gail Joseph is the guest expert for the current series of webinars,
which to date includes:
 December 2013 – Classroom Transitions: Change Doesn't Have to Be Hard (supporting
children and structuring transitions to reduce challenging behaviors)
 January 2014 – Teaching Children to Handle Strong Emotions (emotional literacy,
emotional regulation, self-calming strategies, e.g., turtle technique)
 February 2014 – It's a Problem! Teaching Problem Solving Skills (recognizing the
problem, identifying potential solutions, conflict resolution)
 March 2014 – Teacher's Choice: Digging Deeper into Challenging Behaviors —
Function of Behavior, Part I (escalation cycle, form and function of challenging
behaviors)
 April 25, 2014 --Teacher's Choice: Digging Deeper into Challenging Behavior—
Preventative Strategies, Part II.
Center on Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
www.ecmhc.org
Best Practice Tutorial Series
http://www.ecmhc.org/tutorials/index.html
 Defining Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation and the Consultant Role
 Partnering with Families in Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
 Recognizing and Supporting the Social and Emotional Health of Young Children Birth
to Age Five
 Recognizing and Addressing Trauma in Infants, Young Children, and their Families
 Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Taking Care of Ourselves: Stress and Relaxation Workshop
http://www.ecmhc.org/relaxation.html
Maryland Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (SEFEL)
University of Maryland Institute for Innovation & Implementation
http://theinstitute.umaryland.edu/sefel/
This free online training is funded through Maryland’s Race to the Top Early Learning
Challenge Grant based on training and research of the Center on the Social and
Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL). Each module includes a pre and a
post assessment, Adobe presentation and downloadable handouts. The Adobe
presentations can be downloaded to your computer. Training modules include:
 Preschool Training Modules
 Infant/Toddler Training Modules
 Preschool Parenting Training
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Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional
Competence and Inclusion http://pyramidplus.org/
 The Pyramid Plus Center works to improve the social and emotional competence and
inclusion of young children through the Pyramid Plus Approach: embedded inclusion
practices along the entire developmental continuum (Birth – 5 years) within the
Pyramid Model framework. This approach builds on the work of the Center on the
Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL), the Technical
Assistance Center on Social Emotional Interventions (TACSEI), and the SpecialQuest
Approach and materials.
 The goal of the Pyramid Plus Center is to increase of these evidence-based, early
childhood social emotional and inclusive practices in early care and education
settings, including family child care and in-home providers.
Pyramid Model Implementation Resources for Administrators
http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/do/resources/documents/roadmap_7.pdf
 Fox, L., Veguilla, M., and Perez Binder, D. (2014). Data decision-making and program-
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wide implementation of the Pyramid Model. Roadmap to effective intervention
practices #7. Tampa, Florida: University of South Florida, Technical Assistance
Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children.
Mincic, M., Smith, B., & Strain, P. (2009). Administrator strategies that support high
fidelity implementation of the Pyramid Model for promoting social-emotional
competence and addressing challenging behavior. Issue Brief. Tampa, FL: University
of South Florida. Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for
Young Children.
http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/do/resources/documents/brief_administra
tor.pdf
Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion
(2014). Administrative Leadership 5-Part Webinar Series: How to Build Supportive
Organizational Environments for Pyramid Plus Implementation.
http://www.pyramidplus.org/content/administrative-leadership-webinar-serieshow-build-supportive-organizational-environments-py
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