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Beyond Suspensions and Expulsions: Reducing Disproportionality in Exclusion Through Everyday Practices
2024 Summer Learning Toolkit
Leap into Summer Learning with the 2024 Summer Learning Toolkit! The easy-to-use toolkit will help you plan for a inspiring summer learning activities and effectively communicate the importance of summer learning with families.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: A Powerful Tool to Reduce Exclusionary Discipline by Addressing Underlying Problems
Action 4.11: Integrate Mental Health Providers with Pediatric and Other Primary Care Practices
Action 4.10: Address Barriers in Health Insurance Coverage of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Services to Ensure Adequate Benefits
Action 4.6: Increase Professional Development in Mental Health Treatment for Pediatricians and Family Physicians
Action 4.3: Expand the NC Child Treatment Program
Actions 4.1 & 4.4: Create A Mental Health Professional Development System to Recruit and Retain Infant and Toddler Mental Health Clinicians
Strengthen the Capacity of Early Care and Learning Educators to Eliminate Exclusion
This policy brief focuses on how a child’s response to previous trauma and nonverbal behavior is often the underlying cause of their punishment and expulsion - and how to support early educators to better respond to challenging behaviors.
Building Effective Reporting Systems to Prevent and Reduce Early Exclusion
Policy-makers can provide clarity and guidance to reduce exclusion in early care and learning environments. As of 2022, only eight states required early childhood care providers to report expulsions. This policy brief examines how to remedy the lack of data within and across states.