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My sister works in admin SPED in Ventura County and provides me great resources. This has been really helpful the last 8 years working in SPED. Anybody who might not understand the ABCs of behaviors, this is a helpful tool for better understanding the function of a behavior and some possible replacement behaviors. Great resource to pass on to teachers or read if you want to better understand behavior! If you have questions or want more info/ examples of how to use this information. Reach out! - Morgan

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Social Justice

Equity in Education

Youth Voices and Youth Leadership

Educational Leadership

Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Justice

Community Transformation

Immigration

School Reform

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Boarderless Performance: Offers a live performance to any event connected to the following themes

Social Justice

Equity in Education

Youth Voices and Youth Leadership

Educational Leadership

Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Justice

Community Transformation

Immigration

School Reform

Creative Keynote Support: Offers performance elements to keynote speakers to lend a heartfelt opening to their talk. Supports speakers prior to an engagement to connect the musical pieces to the themes and topics of the talk.

Youth Leadership Conference: This workshop can design and deliver a youth component to any conference or institute connect to any of the themes mentioned above.

Youth Leadership Series (YES): This is a fully designed leadership program, program curriculum, and video series to work in house, in school districts, with middle and high school youth. The end result being a leadership team highly motivated, and equipped with knowledge, skills, and relationships to take action in the district as leaders for positive change. In the past these students have worked with teams of educators, have worked with peers, and worked with kids in elementary schools facilitating conversations and activities.

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Boarderless Performance: Offers a live performance to any event connected to the following themes Social Justice Equity in Education Youth Voices and Youth Leadership Educational Leadership Environmental Sustainability Environmental Justice Community Transformation Immigration School Reform Creative Keynote Support: Offers performance elements to keynote speakers to lend a heartfelt opening to their talk.

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My sister works in admin SPED in Ventura County and provides me great resources. This has been really helpful the last 8 years working in SPED. Anybody who might not understand the ABCs of behaviors, this is a helpful tool for better understanding the function of a behavior and some possible replacement behaviors. Great resource to pass on to teachers or read if you want to better understand behavior! If you have questions or want more info/ examples of how to use this information. Reach out! - Morgan

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Handbook that can help support new teachers/Paraprofessionals

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Handbook that can help support new teachers/Paraprofessionals

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If your SELPA/SPED doesn't have data forms, these from Ventura SELPA are fantastic

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What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do

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What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do

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Considering all the struggles in schools that teachers have with trying to teach disengaged and emotionally dysregulated students, educating parents about screen use and providing recommendations for what is appropriate use should be a taught often, utilizing various methods of communication. This education should start in preschool.

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Consequences for kids' of endless screen time

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Nearly 6 in 10 public primary school principals lead at least one prekindergarten grade, but new research suggests training and support for integrating early-childhood and elementary education tends to be thin for administrators.

In forthcoming research, Michael Little, an assistant professor of education and public policy at North Carolina State University, surveyed a representative pool of 520 head and assistant principals in that state who administered at least one age level of pre-kindergarten in their schools. Nearly 80 percent of the principals said they considered it a "very good idea" to house preschool programs in the elementary school, and about 75 percent believed the programs should be integrated academically with other grades in the school.

However, fewer than half of the principals said they were familiar with standards for early learning in the state, and a little more than a third said they regularly included pre-K teachers in professional learning communities in their schools. About 45 percent of the principals said they only visited their schools' pre-K programs once or twice a week.

Little found that children whose principals had taken early-childhood leadership courses as part of their preservice training had higher kindergarten math and literacy performance levels than those for students of principals who hadn't had such training. The average student whose principal had actually taught in early-childhood education before becoming administrators had academic performance that was about 17 percentile points higher than the average for a student whose school leader didn't have early-childhood experience.

However, Little found in prior research that only 5 percent of principal-preparation programs require a course on early-childhood education, and only 20 percent even covered the subject in other courses.

"That's a big problem," he said.

"When that [pre-K] program is located in an elementary school building, the principal can shape the conditions, what that program looks like, how it falls on the academic versus developmental debate," Little said. "They can also set conditions for vertical alignment. And so principals do have a role to play in shaping pre-K effectiveness."

Principal leadership has become particularly urgent since the pandemic, according to Gracie Branch, the associate executive director for professional learning at the National Association of Elementary School Principals. Pandemic disruptions have led to both lower school readiness for incoming preschool and kindergarten students and slower academic progress for students in older grades, which has put more pressure on principals to increase academic interventions.

"Content is critically important and we know that, but we really want to make sure we incorporate the art and play, because that's such a big part of early childhood," Branch said. "When you think of early childhood, you want it to be fun and joyful and uplifting."

Principals who have had experience as early-childhood educators, Little noted, are more likely to support play-based learning and other developmentally appropriate practices in early grades, as opposed to using worksheets or other didactic teaching approaches.

And more child-friendly practices in early grades can boost academic gains. For example, in a separate forthcoming study previewed at a recent meeting last month of the Society for Research in Education Effectiveness, University of Virginia researchers observed more than 1,500 mostly low-income students across 117 pre-K classrooms and 289 kindergarten classrooms. They found 63 percent of the children experienced significantly more direct instruction in literacy and 76 percent more math instruction in kindergarten compared to pre-K. But 60 percent of students also had significantly fewer individual interactions with their teachers than they did the year before, and the drop in one-on-one teacher-student interactions was associated with lower performance in letter-word identification, applied math problems, and math concept understanding in kindergarten.

Boston public schools, in contrast, developed a vertically aligned curriculum for its elementary schools by starting with skills needed at the preschool grades and building upon that foundation at each of the next highergrades. "They didn't say, 'I'm gonna use my math and reading 3rd grade test scores as the base and work my way backwards,'" Little said. "And they're showing some compelling results. Principals are key in determining whether joining [pre-K to elementary grades] is a positive thing."

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Principals Matter for Preschools, But Studies Show They Lack Training

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New research suggests principals need to learn more about the preschool classes in their buildings.

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A Principal’s Guide to Early Learning and the Early Grades  (Pre-K–3rd Grade)

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A Principal’s Guide to Early Learning and the Early Grades  (Pre-K–3rd Grade)

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@principal_lamb asks, "What if we treated our bank accounts like we treat our teachers?" 🤯🤯

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How can we help our students eat healthier? 

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How can we help our students eat healthier? 

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I think for success to happen in schools, we need to get back to some basics with education. We are expecting our students to learn when their diets and sleep hygiene are generally poor and screen use is out of control, all affecting brain function.

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How the food you eat affects your brain - Mia Nacamulli