Three new resources from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) and the Technical Assistance Center on Social-Emotional Intervention (TACSEI):

1.  Roadmap to Effective Intervention Practices Series Introduced

"Screening for Social Emotional Concerns: Considerations in the Selection of Instruments" now available.  The first publication in TACSEI's new series provides a brief overview of the use of screening and helps administrators and teachers choose appropriate instruments to implement a screening program. http://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/resources/roadmap.html?utm_source=TACSEI+%26+CSEFEL+Updates&utm_campaign=b885e40cad-TACSEI+and+CSEFEL+Updates_3.2009&utm_medium=email

2.  New Book Nooks Available from CSEFEL

CSEFEL Book Nooks are full of ideas and activities designed around a variety of popular children’s books. Created especially for teachers, these easy-to-use guides provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines such as art, singing and circle time. Examples of suggested activities include using rhymes to talk about being friends, making masks to help children talk about and identify different feelings, and playing a game of what to with hands instead of hitting. A few of the new titles in the collection include: No Matter What by Debi Gliori, Too Loud Lilly by Sophia Laguna, and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/practicalstrategies.html?utm_source=TACSEI+%26+CSEFEL+Updates&utm_campaign=b885e40cad-TACSEI+and+CSEFEL+Updates_3.2009&utm_medium=email#booknook

3.  Recording of February TACSEI Webinar Now Online
Using a Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework to Promote Young Children's Social Development: The Teaching Pyramid Model

This webinar discussion includes an overview of the RtI framework, the use of screening and ongoing assessment with the model, implementation of the Pyramid Model as RtI to address social development and behavior, and a discussion of the benefits and challenges associated with the implementation of RtI in early childhood programs. You can access a recording of this event and all of the accompanying resources by visiting the Presentations and Workshops page on the TACSEI site.
http://www.challengingbehavior.org/explore/presentations_workshops.htm?utm_source=TACSEI+%26+CSEFEL+Updates&utm_campaign=b885e40cad-TACSEI+and+CSEFEL+Updates_3.2009&utm_medium=email

Deb Marciniak
Systems Reform Program
Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI)
2364 Woodlake Dr., Ste. 180
Okemos, MI 48864
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dmarcini@mphi.org