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Challenging Behavior

NACCRRA joins efforts with other national associations to provide information on challenging behavior and social/emotional development.

NACCRRA is participating in a project coordinated by The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior (CEBP) funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, ED.

The Centers' partnership with NACCRRA and the other Primary Partner Associations has several key objectives.

• Advance a unified message of the importance of evidence-based practices in the field
• Extend the social validity of the Centers' finding through the associations

What's available?

A series of 8 What Works Briefs describe practical strategies, provide references to more information about the practice, and include a one-page handout that highlights the major points of the Brief. The Briefs are available free of charge at: http://www.csefel.uiuc.edu/whatworks.html

• Brief 1: Introduction to the What Works Briefs
• Brief 2: Understanding the Impact of Language Difference on Classroom Behavior
• Brief 3: Helping Children Understand Routines and Classroom Schedules
• Brief 4: Helping Children Make Transitions between Activities
• Brief 5: Using Classroom Activities and Routines as Opportunities to Support Peer Interaction
• Brief 6: Using Environmental Strategies to Promote Positive Social Interactions
• Brief 7: Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior
• Brief 8: Promoting Positive Peer Social Interactions
• Brief 9: What are Children Trying to Tell Us?: Assessing the Function of Their Behavior

Training modules and Facilitator's Guide to Promoting Social and Emotional Competence. These modules were designed based on input gathered during focus groups with program administrators, T/TA providers, early educators, and family members about the types and content of training that would be most useful in addressing the social-emotional needs of young children. The content of the modules is consistent with evidence-based practices identified through a thorough review of the literature.

The modules can be found at http://www.csefel.uiuc.edu/modules.html and include the following topics:

• Classroom Preventative Practices: Promoting Children's Success Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies
• Individualized Intensive Interventions: Determining the Meaning of Challenging Behavior
• Individualized Intensive Interventions: Developing a Behavior Support Plan
• Leadership Strategies for Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Development and Addressing Challenging Behavior

Three comprehensive syntheses of knowledge base that define the state of current knowledge about challenging behavior and the gaps that need to be filled by a focused agenda of applied research. The three areas addressed by the synthesis are: Systems of Service Delivery, Effective Practices for Young Children with Challenging Behavior, and Service Utilization. These can be found at www.challengingbehavior.org.

Position statement on Challenging Behaviors endorsed by NAEYC, DEC, NHSA, NBCDI and NABE

Presentations and resources available at NACCRRA's Regional Institutes for Professional Development, www.naccrra.org/conferences.

NACCRRA is proud to join these other national organizations as primary partners of this project:

• CSEFEL, The Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
• NAEYC, National Association for the Education of Young Children
• DEC, Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children
• NABE, National Association for Bi-Lingual Education
• NBCDI, National Black Child Development Institute
• NHSA, National Head Start Association