Creating a Climate for ChangeCreating a climate shift is no easy feat. However, if we use evidence and standards based practices that focus on student and teacher emotional intelligence and well-being, we can effectively and efficiently create a climate of caring and kindness. Click each icon below to explore our 10-point process to implement a climate shift.
Begin teaching emotional competence to infants from their earliest days.
Use current emotional situations as an opportunity to teach and learn more appropriate emotion regulation strategies.
As key socializers of children’s behavior, emotions, and learning, teachers’ own intensive training and ongoing professional advancement are critical. Our program offers both asynchronous and synchronous professional development, feedback, and support.
In order to ensure successful understanding and implementation, it is vital that educators have the help and guidance they need at every step. The training program offers a strong system of reflective practice and support through mentoring and coaching.
Before educators and caregivers can help children successfully deal with their emotions, they must first be able to understand and manage their own emotions, stress, and anxiety.
Begin to ECSEL is designed to be woven into any existing programming or curriculum throughout the day, every day.
Proprietary begin to ECSEL® developmentally appropriate tools and characters provide children with the skills to identify and label their emotions, understand cause and effect relationships between emotions and behavior, and resolve interpersonal conflicts.
Our research has shown children who experience the begin to ECSEL program significantly outperform their peers nationally in key measures of emotional competence, self-regulation, empathy, and executive functions.
The begin to ECSEL strategies extend to the home, guiding parents in the critical understanding of their own emotional responses, underscoring the importance of modeling appropriate behavior, and enhancing their relationships.
Begin to ECSEL aligns with CASEL, NAEYC, Head Start, and State Standards, offering PDPs and CEUs to educators who complete the training.