KISSED

Kentucky Initiative for Social Skills and Emotional Development

Description:

The Kentucky Initiative for Social Skills and Emotional Development (KISSED) utilizes a team based Professional Learning format to train early childhood educators and support staff to facilitate social-emotional development in young children.

Participants will learn a systematic approach that uses three levels of intervention practices (Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 RTI) to teach specific social and emotional skills, to prevent challenging behaviors, and to provide intensive intervention for children that need additional, individualized support.

Goals:

Using a team approach to promote social-emotional development of all children, teachers will:

Design environments to promote social-emotional development of all children.
Create daily routines which promote social-emotional development of all children.
Establish strong, nurturing relationships with all children, families and colleagues.
Use specific social-emotional teaching strategies to promote social competence.
Using data, teachers, will develop and implement a functional assessment behavior plan for children needing additional supports.
Teachers will access additional resources to support children and their families who display severe social-emotional behavioral problems.

Suggested Team Composition

Preschool, Head Start, Child Care teachers and/or Instructional Assistants
Kindergarten teacher and/or Instructional Assistant
Guidance Counselors
Related Service Providers (OT, PT, SLP, etc.)
Other Stakeholders in Early Childhood Education

Dates

Module 1 – August 30, 2019 - TBA
Module 2 - September 20, 2019 - TBA
Module 3 - October 25, 2019 - TBA
Module 4 - March 12-13, 2020 - Lexington KY

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