Our local Technical assistance program that serves only Chatham County is represented by this multi-tiered system of supports for early childhood education programs. Learn more about Lena Grow here: https://www.lena.org/lena-grow/
- On-site coaching to build evidence-based teaching strategies
- Consultation for Directors, including the Program Administrator Scale (PAS)
- Assistance with required new teacher orientation
- Environment Rating Scale assessment preparation for Rated License
- Playground improvements using the Preschool Outdoor Environment Measurement Scale (POEMS)
- Individualized Teacher Coaching, including LENA Grow
Contact: Pam Anderson
LENA Grow is a practiced-based professional development program that uses “talk pedometer” technology to provide data on interactions with each child in your classroom and enhance your classroom language environment. Classrooms will participate in a “LENA day” when children will wear vests containing their assigned talk pedometers. The talk pedometers do not record any speech, but will count the number of serve and returns the individual child has with the teacher. Once the data is processed, the participant will receive coaching and feedback. This data-driven coaching model leads to increased interactions impacting language development and kindergarten readiness.
95% of teachers say they either like or love the program — and most love it. 99% would recommend LENA Grow to other teachers. In addition, over 90% say the program helped them feel more confident in their teaching abilities and increased their overall job satisfaction.
Healthy Social Behavior Specialists provide on-site consultation for challenging behaviors and social emotional development in preschool aged classrooms, based on the CSEFEL Pyramid Model. Only available to licensed child care centers.
The Healthy Social Behaviors Project (HSB) was established in 2005 to address behavioral issues in young children through services that help to identify, prevent and modify challenging behaviors, with the goal of reducing the expulsion rate and promoting healthy social-emotional development for all children in NC licensed child care centers.
We support North Carolina DCDEE-licensed child care centers serving children ages 0 to 5 years old, including NC Pre-K Classrooms, Early Head Start and Head Start Programs, Developmental Day Programs and GS 110-106 centers, focusing on teacher practices that can calm challenging behaviors.
Contact: Ann and Betsy
B-3QI serves all 100 counties across the state, and Regional Birth-to-Three Specialists provide leadership, coaching, training and hands-on support for teachers and site administrators.
Specialists with the Birth-to-Three Quality Initiative partner with classroom teachers and administrators using Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) to help them set goals and accomplish what matters most to them for the benefit of the children and families they serve.
Are you looking to build a skilled, informed, and dynamic birth-to-three teaching team? Teachers need individualized support based on their unique needs, experiences, and goals. Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) provides this type of tailored guidance to help early educators improve and refine their teaching practices through goal setting and action planning.
Contact: Teresa Speller
Family Child Care Consultation
The Family Child Care Consultant works to support Family Child Care educators in Region 13 (Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, and Wayne Counties) through relationship based, culturally and linguistically responsive technical assistance and professional development specific to the needs of Family Child Care and Center in a Residence providers.
The FCC Consultant provides hands-on individualized and tailored support (technical assistance) for current and potential providers and administrators that includes: building positive relationships with children, families and co-workers; creating environments to support social-emotional development and the developing capacity of infants and young children to form close and secure relationships, regulate and express emotion, and explore their environments and learn social skills; implementing best practices for infant and toddler group care every day that creates the quality of care that provides solid foundations for infant and toddler development; and providing support for developmental monitoring and screening.
We use a Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) framework that involves building partnerships and shared goals with infant and toddler teachers and administrators to help them plan for and achieve best practices.
Contact: Paula Shemanski
