Introduction
- What’s in This Book?
- How We Came to Write a Book for Leaders
- Dedication
Chapter 1: Defining Yourself as a Leader
- Understanding Your Journey
- Learning to Lead
- How Do You Define Your Role?
- What Is Your Vision?
- What Leadership Style Works Best
- When Challenging Behavior Occurs?
- Getting to Know You
- Enhance the Climate
- Think About It
- For Further Learning
Chapter 2: What Is Challenging Behavior?
- Why Children Behave Inappropriately
- Risk Factors for Challenging Behavior
- For Further Learning
Chapter 3: How a Child with Challenging Behavior Impacts Your Leadership Skills
- Finding Ways to Welcome a Child with Challenging Behavior
- Being in the Classroom
- When Differences Arise
- Building a Team
- Developing a Common Approach Challenging Behavior
- For Further Learning
Chapter 4: Developing a Behavior Guidance Policy
- Start with Your Vision and Mission
- Focus on Prevention
- Intervention Strategies
- The Role of Families
- Supporting Staff
- Mental Health Consultation
- Collecting Data
- Exclusion
- For Further Learning
Chapter 5: Enabling Your Staff to Act
- Helping Staff to Understand Themselves
- The Amygdala Hijack
- Dealing with Stress
- Culture and Teachers’ Expectations
- Implicit Bias
- Using Data
- For Further Learning
Chapter 6: The Power of Prevention
- The Influence of Social Climate
- Physical Space
- Making Things Run Smoothly
- Teaching Strategies
- For Further Learning
Chapter 7: Why Change Is So Difficult
- Recognizing the Need for Change
- Why Do Educators Resist Change?
- Collaborate, Collaborate, Collaborate
- What Can You Do About Resistance?
- Implementing Change
- Take Care of Yourself
- For Further Learning
Chapter 8: The Role of Professional Development
- Begin with Your Staff
- A Learning Climate
- Create a Professional Development Policy
- Leaders Should Take Part, Too
- Looking for Professional Development Options
- How Can Staff Share Their Learning with Their Colleagues?
- For Further Learning
Chapter 9: Facing the Reality of Challenging Behavior
- How Does Your Staff Feel About Having a Child with Challenging Behavior in the Program?
- Getting Your Staff on Board
- Should the Child Remain in the Program?
- What About Moving the Child or the Teacher to Another Classroom?
- Supporting Teachers When There’s a Child with Challenging Behavior
- How Can Staff Meetings Help?
- When Is It Time to Call in Reinforcements?
- For Further Learning
Chapter 10: Working with the Family
- Open Communication Is Important
- Meeting with the Family
- The Role of Implicit Bias and Culture in Teacher–Family Interactions
- How Should You Handle Disagreements with the Family?
- What About Suggesting
- Families Seek Outside Help?
- How Do You Work with the Families of the Other Children?
- Is There a Better Alternative to Your Program?
- For Further Learning
Chapter 11: Helping Teachers Respond Effectively to Challenging Behavior
- Why Punishment Isn’t Effective
- Helping Your Staff Find Effective Alternatives
- The Importance of Responding to Early Signs of Challenging Behavior
- Several Effective Strategies
- When a Child Loses Control
- For Further Learning
Chapter 12: Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support
- How Does Functional Assessment Work?
- Observing Children with Your Teachers
- Creating a Behavior Support Plan
- Using Functional Assessment and a Positive Behavior Support Plan: Ryan
- For Further Learning
Chapter 13: Trauma‑Informed Practice
- What Is Trauma?
- What Can Trauma Do to the Brain?
- What Can Administrators and Teachers Do?
- Create a Safe, Predictable Environment
- Help Teachers to Develop Their Resilience
- Choosing Trauma‑Sensitive Care
- For Further Learning
Appendices
- Appendix 1: Sample Guidance Policy
- Appendix 2: Behavior Incident Report
- Appendix 3: Blank A‑B‑C Observation Chart
- Appendix 4: Ryan’s A‑B‑C Observation Chart
- Appendix 5: Ryan’s Behavior Support Planning Chart
References
Index
About the Authors
Acknowledgments