Building Attachment and Self-Regulation with Families: The Parent - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Building Attachment and Self-Regulation with Families: The Parent Child Home Program and Conscious Discipline Presented by: Heidi White, Director of Early Learning Jill Elliott, Family & Community Partnership Coordinator Eau Claire Area School District, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Outcomes ➢ To share information about our PCHP Program ➢ To share our journey with Conscious Discipline ➢ To learn Conscious Discipline Brain States ➢ To know the four elements of connection (eye contact, presence, touch, and playful situation) ➢ To learn strategies that build attachment and self-regulation that can be integrated into weekly PCHP home visits.

Brain Smart Start Routine: Rationale: Activity: Unite UNITE Let's Get It Started *Involves everyone doing something that brings everyone together and puts Increase energy everybody on the same page. Also Decrease energy builds relationships, safety, and Get on the same page endorphins. Disengage Stress DISENGAGE STRESS S.T.A.R. *Involves deep breathing and stretching. Prepares the brain for Calm down classroom learning and turns off stress responses. Organized quiet Shift gears/transitions Connect CONNECT Itsy Ditsy Spider *Involves eye contact, touch, presence and playfulness. Helps build Increase attention relationships, AND maintains focused Increase motivation attention/motivation to learn. Impulse control Organized energy Commit COMMIT Commit *Involves affirmations and positive thinking. Produces serotonin, teaches Activate frontal lobes responsibility, and promotes mindful Focus attention attention as it supports maturation of Increase success the prefrontal lobe.

Eau Claire Area School District • 11,300 students 8 th largest school district in WI • • 1 early learning school • 12 elementary schools • 3 middle schools • 2 high schools • 2 charter schools

Total Enrollment: 903 Prairie Ridge Enrollment: 341 EC4T (Eau Claire 4 Tomorrow) 4K Community Sites Enrollment: 519 Itinerant Special Education Enrollment: 43 Total Staff: 124

Prairie Ridge Early Learning School Houses our Head Start Program PCHP begins in 2013-2014 40 families Ages 3 & 4

Why Conscious Discipline?

Introduction to Conscious Discipline

Best exercise for the brain is is EXERCISE! Pencil Song

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In Integration of Conscious Dis iscipline in into PCHP • Importance of Routine • Calming Strategies • I Love You Rituals/Connection • Baby Doll Circle Time

Im Importance of Routine • Build safety and trust • Model the use of routine • Build routine into our visits • Create visual routine books

Calming Strategies • Breathing techniques (S.T.A.R., balloon, drain, pretzel) • Shut down stress response • Develops the pause button (self-regulation) • Moves adults and children to the higher centers of their brain

The best exercise for the brain is is EXERCIS ISE! Pop See Ko

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I I Love You Rituals I Love You Rituals Video • Build attunement, attachment, and connection • Build corticolimbic connections in the brain • Release feel-good chemicals in the brain

Baby Doll ll Cir ircle Tim ime • Build attunement and attachment • Baby Doll VISM • Continue activities with the baby doll VISM at additional visits • Connect home and school

The best exercise for the brain is is EXERCIS ISE! Partner Game…1, 2, 3! On the 1 — clap On the 2 — slap thighs On the 3 — slap hands together

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Questions hwhite@ecasd.us jelliott@ecasd.us