Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline Resource Database

This resource provides State Leadership Teams with guidance on the collection and analysis of behavior incident report data from programs. This guidance includes critical questions about programs’ use of exclusionary disciplinary practices, considerations for using the data appropriately and effectively, and sample table shells demonstrating how state leadership teams could present behavior incident data answering each of the critical questions.

This webinar provides panel discussions related to equity, inappropriate discipline practices, and effective strategies. This session will discuss preschool suspensions.

This article describes the efforts of one state to address unacceptably high rates of child care expulsion. The primary policy initiative involved the funding of a center to develop model sites, a state-level planning team, ongoing practitioner training, and certification of coaches and trainers all built around the Pyramid Model. Results showed showed a dramatic reduction in expulsion rates and a corollary increase in providers’ teaching of prosocial skills to children with challenging behavior.

This webpage is a compilation of resources on expulsion and suspension in early childhood. The resources include federal guidance; resources from national centers and associations; and practice resources.

Our November 15–16, 2022 SPP/APR Summit brought together data quality influencers from across the country for a chance to connect and collaborate with their peers as they continue to improve the quality of their state’s SPP/APR data. For all sessions, see https://ideadata.org/spp-apr-summit. This session focused on several of the important decisions needed to generate data for Indicator 4A and 4B, including comparison group, calculation method, minimum cell size, minimum n-size, and threshold. It also contrasted Indicator 4 with significant disproportionality requirements.

The Children's Equity Project webpage provides critical information to early care and education systems and programs about the disparities within exclusionary discipline practices and strategies to address those disparities. There are a range of resources to support understanding the issues with harsh discipline and disproportionality in early education.

Research tells us that high-quality, supportive early childhood programs have a positive effect on the lives of infants, young children, and families. Recent data show a troubling number of children are expelled or kicked out of early childhood settings, impacting their ability to recieve the benefits that early childhood programs provide. This fact sheet offers data on early childhood expulsion and suspension, resources, and ways early educators and systems can help.

This practice guide is a research-based tool aimed at helping early childhood programs eliminate suspensions and expulsions by addressing the underlying root causes. The guide provides information, recommended policies and practices, resources, and tools targeted at three levels or tiers of support to help program leaders.

Preschool expulsion denies comprehensive services that nurture social and emotional development to children in need of them. This website provides a collection of resources (policies, program guides, webinars) that can help programs eliminate preschool suspension and expulsion.

This resource provides information on the use of exclusionary discipline practices within early childhood programs and how program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model for Promoting the Social and Emotional Competence for Infants and Young Children can eliminate the use of these practices.

This Guide provides early care and education systems and programs with a framework for addressing exclusionary discipline practices. The Guide includes a review of the data on exclusionary discipline practices, provides information on the systemic drivers of disparities, and provides a framework for addressing rates and disparities.