CSEFEL Pyramid Model Higher Education Institute
June 4, 2015 – 9:00-3:30
UMASS Donahue Institute, 333 South Street, Shrewsbury, MA
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Agenda
8:30-9:00 a.m. Sign in
9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Observations
Mary Watson Avery, M.S., Aspire Institute, Wheelock College
Avery, M. W., & Callejas, E. (2015). Learning Classroom Management: Moving teachers from theory to practice in order to promote student success.
9:30 a.m. Roundtable Discussion I: Introductions
Please share your level of experience with the model as well as your learning goals for today’s Institute.
10:15 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Angel Fettig, PhD., Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
Keynote PowerPoint slides
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Roundtable & Large Group Discussion II:
Teacher Education Road Blocks and Successes: Identifying and using evidence-based approaches that include tools as well as clear methods for implementation.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Afternoon Information Sessions
| 1:00-1:45 p.m. | Content at Each Level of the Pyramid (Watson Avery) | A Tactile-Kinesthetic Activity (Ugalde) |
| 1:50-2:35 p.m. | Pyramid Model Research & Assessment Tools (Fettig) | Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior (Urbano) |
2:40 p.m. Reconvene
Discussion of on-line resources including:
- Crosswalks
- Pyramid Model in higher education in other states
- Articles & research
Afternoon Information Sessions
Content at Each Level of the Pyramid
Presenter: Mary Watson Avery
A primer to the Pyramid Model Approach, this information session examine the levels of the Pyramid Model, including the model’s approach to developing an early childhood positive behavior support plan.
Content at Each Level of the Pyramid PowerPoint slides
A Tactile-Kinesthetic Activity: Designing a Developmentally Appropriate Preschool Environment Embedding the CSEFEL Pyramid Concepts
Presenter: Julienne Uglade
This information session features exemplary college student work using the CSEFEL pyramid concepts in conjunction with designing poster boards that show developmentally appropriate preschool environments. The rubric used in evaluating the assignment will also be discussed.
Pyramid Model Research & Assessment Tools
Presenter: Angel Fettig
This session shares some research projects around the Pyramid Model practices that are conducted within Massachusetts. Measures to assess implementation of the model as well as children’s outcomes (e.g., Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool and child behavior measures) will be described.
Pyramid Model Research & Assessment Tools Handout
Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior
Presenter: Andrea Urbano
The focus of this information session is the creation, exploration and use of Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behaviors developed by the Pyramid Model creators. The visual tools provide teachers with practical strategies, activities and experiences to support young children, while helping them to understand why these approaches are beneficial for the individual child as well as the group.
Presenter Bios
Angel Fettig, PhD., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has extensive training and research experience in collaborating with parents, teachers, and early intervention providers in using the Pyramid Model to support young children’s social emotional development and reducing challenging behaviors. Her research interest focuses specifically on effective support strategies to increase the implementation of the evidence-based strategies. She teaches courses on the topics of supporting children’s social emotional development and classroom behavior management.
Julienne A. Ugalde, M.S., is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education and Human Services at Anna Maria College. Julienne has been an early childhood educator for over 30 years with wide-ranging experience teaching and mentoring children and families in the fields of education and human services; advocating for children and their loved ones through a variety of ways including infant and toddler teacher, public school teacher, preschool director, family support facilitator, and after-school instructor. Julienne has presented on a variety of child development topics at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) for six consecutive years. Currently, she is pursuing her second graduate degree in Art Therapy and obtaining her license as a mental health clinician.
Andrea Urbano, M.A., is the Senior Director of Training and Professional Development at Horizons for Homeless Children, Andrea works with both staff and parents to provide quality early childhood education to young children experiencing homelessness that is based on the most current research and practices. Andrea is involved in several innovative projects including Pyramid Model training for workers in the Massachusetts Homeless Shelter System and a faculty member in the Boston Public Health Commission Breakthrough Collaborative Series on Trauma Informed Early Education and Care systems Early Childhood Programs. Andrea has been active in the field of Early Childhood education for over 30 years as a teacher, administrator, trainer, advocate, state licensor and education consultant. She is a life-long learner and believes in the power of knowledge as a motivator for change.
Mary Watson Avery, M.S, is the Senior Program Director of the Aspire Institute at Wheelock College, in addition to leading Aspire’s Connected Beginnings Training Institute. Mary’s career has focused on work with children birth to 6 years, parent support, and early childhood practitioner professional development. Her special interests include infant mental health practices; the play of typical and traumatized children; therapeutic parent education; coaching practices in early childhood settings; and the mentoring of early childhood trainers. She has been a teacher, administrator and consultant in several urban early childhood programs in New York City and the greater Boston area. She is currently a member of the Massachusetts Master Cadre of Pyramid Model Trainers & Coaches. Mary has also served on the faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Risk & Prevention Program; was the Director of Family Connections, a community mental health outreach program targeting parental depression, based at Boston Children’s Hospital; and has taught in the Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate program at Wheelock College.
The CSEFEL Pyramid Model Higher Education Institute is being offered at no cost to participants through support from the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care’s Race to the Top Early Challenge Learning Grant, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Project, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.