Going back to school after a long break—or attending a program for the first time—comes with lots of changes to the rhythms of daily life for young children. Yet it’s much easier for them to make the transition if their parents and teachers build a child-friendly lifestyle aimed at their development, temperament, and skills.

Join Lynne Reeves Griffin for a workshop filled with practical strategies for guiding age-appropriate learning, keeping children calm and focused, while also strengthening the parent-teacher connection.

The PEA-R Model, borrowed from Occupational Therapy, helps staff with varied behavior management experience more efficiently assess and address challenges with student performance (behavior). PEA-R stands for Person-Environment-Activity-Relationship. This model is jargon-free and accessible to anyone. It facilitates a more systematized internal decision tree to help staff better organize their thinking around student behavior. Additionally, PEA-R can help create community-wide consistency in staff behavior management practices. Through this model, staff analyze and breakdown contexts where students are struggling and contexts where they are successful into more concrete variables. Then, with that information, staff are more readily able to identify specific barriers and supports to performance that are naturally occurring within the environment, rather than turning to more contrived behavior management strategies. The PEA-R model can help to create a more informed and effective staff approach to supporting student performance and build a truly inclusive, strengths-based program, starting with staff perspectives around behavior.