Creativity Session Presenter’s Name

Agenda Framing the issues What’s on hand? Available resources What then must we do? What guidance is needed? How can it be used to support full and equitable participation? What else is needed?

Expectations of You Provide input to the development of statewide guidance, tools, and strategies related to early childhood suspension and expulsion Share your expertise and ideas

Setting the Context Find someone in the room you do not know or with whom you do not currently work. Share your name and role. Briefly share a story or experience that will inform your thinking today about early childhood suspension and expulsion.

The Federal Context

States must devote a portion of their funds to at least one of the recommended quality improvement activities such as “including effective behavior management strategies and training, including positive behavior interventions and support models, that promote positive social and emotional development and reduce challenging behaviors, including reducing expulsions of preschool-aged children for such behaviors”

Requirement under Vermont Act 166

Rosemarie Allen TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8nkcRMZKV4

Vermont Data Collection & Analysis

Vermont Resources

Examples from Other States

1. What needs to be explicit in the Vermont early childhood suspension-expulsion policy? Definitions? To whom does this apply to? (programs and people) What should be made clear with regard to “positive behavior interventions and support models, that promote positive social and emotional development and reduce challenging behaviors”? What other policies, frameworks, or structures are already in place that this should build on? What other early childhood work does this need to acknowledge? Align with?

2. How can the guidance be used to support full and equitable participation? Who needs to know about and use the policy? What needs to be put in place for the policy to be fully effective? How could the policy be used to promote the use of effective behavior management strategies? What professional development would be needed for that to happen?

Tools and resources that are specific to the early childhood policy 3. What else is needed to reduce the suspension and expulsion of young children? Tools and resources that are specific to the early childhood policy Other tools, strategies, or ideas?

What will happen next? Transcript of input posted at http://fpg.unc.edu/presentations/suspension-expulsion Working group identified to draft Vermont guidance Guidance distributed for input Final document completed and disseminated by fall 2018