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Preventing Expulsion
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KEY ELEMENTS TO PREVENTING EXPULSION ARE:
- building strong family/educator relationships
- reducing educator stress
- engaging in ongoing coaching and professional development
CICC is committed to preventing expulsion in early childhood settings
What is Expulsion?
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- SRI Education: What Do Exclusionary Practices Look Like in Early Childhood Settings?
- National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations: Suspension and Expulsion in Early Childhood
- Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center: Understanding and Eliminating Expulsion in Early Childhood Programs
- Minnesota Department of Education: QUICK GUIDE - Early Childhood Suspension and Expulsion
Prevention Strategies
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Videos:
Resources from other organizations:
- Building Environments that Encourage Positive Behavior
- Building Positive Relationships with Young Children
- Preschool Behavior Support Self-Assessment
- Zero to Three, Challenging Behavior
- Digging Deeper Into Challenging Behavior Part 1-Video
- Digging Deeper Into Challenging Behavior Part 2-Video
- Tips and Ideas for Making Visuals to Support Young Children with Challenging Behavior
- Preventing Suspensions and Expulsions in Early Childhood Settings: A Program Leaders Guide to Supporting All Children's Success
Tip Sheets:
- Preventing Expulsion in Child Care
- Cómo prevenir la expulsión en el cuidado infantil (Preventing Expulsion in Child Care) - Spanish
- Ka Hortag Carruurta Inay Joojiyaan Dugsiga (Preventing Expulsion in Child Care) -Somali
Podcasts:
- Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood: Part One
- Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood: Part Two
- Prevention of Expulsion in Early Childhood: Part Three
Community Resources
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- CICC Coaching
- FAQs: Questions to Ask When Seeking Child Care
- Successful Learner Equation Webpage : This page includes links to the MDE 18-minute webinar, a one-page flyer with an overview of the equation, and a language guide that provides examples of alternative language to use when communicating with others on this topic.
- Help Me Connect: https://helpmeconnect.web.health.state.mn.us/HelpMeConnect
- Minnesota Department of Education Early Childhood Screening: https://education.mn.gov/MDE/fam/elsprog/screen/index.htm
Research & Statistics
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Published Studies:
- Research Study by Walter S. Gilliam, PhD., et al. Yale University Child Study Center (2016): Do Early Educators’ Implicit Biases Regarding Sex and Race Relate to Behavior Expectations and Recommendations of Preschool Expulsions and Suspensions?
- Brief by Authors Carey McCann (BUILD), Sheila Smith, Uyen (Sophie) Nguyen, and Maribel R. Granja (NCCP): States’ Growing Commitment to Preventing Young Children’s Expulsion from Early Care and Education Programs: Results of a 50-State Policy Survey (2021)
YOUNG CHILDREN EXPELLED FROM PRESCHOOL ARE MORE LIKELY TO:
Lose chances to learn, socialize with other children, and interact with positive adult role models.
Miss out on chances to develop and practice the very skills they may most need, including social and emotional skills.
Develop ongoing behavior problems leading to later school difficulty.
Experience harmful effects on development, education, health.
View themselves negatively or as not capable of learning.
Develop negative views about learning, school, teachers, and the world around them.
National Center for Early Childhood Health & Wellness, 2018