Naeyc 2018 Captian Kirk annual conference workshop

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Presented by
Angela Searcy, Ed.D.
Simple Solutions Educational Services
866-660-3899/708-845-2343 asearcya@aol.com
Are you more like Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock? Five lessons from the
Starship Enterprise that facilitate self-reflection and behavior planning
when children exhibit challenging behaviors
Dr. Angela Searcy © NAEYC annual conference 2018
Angela Searcy, Ed.D. asearcya@aol.com 708-845-2343
• Angela Searcy holds a B.A. degree in English and secondary education with
teacher certification though the state of Illinois and a M.S. degree in early
childhood development from Erikson Institute, with a specialization in
Infant Studies and a Doctorate in Education. Her research revolves around
brain-based learning and it’s correlation to aggressive behaviors in preschool
children.
• Angela is the owner and founder of Simple Solutions Educational
Services, and has over 28 years of experience at all levels of education.
Angela currently leads the online cohorts and acts as an continuing education
instructor at Erikson Institute, is a professional development provider for
Teaching Strategies, LLC, an affiliate trainer for Teachstone, a member
of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System CLASS Community
Advisory Board, and author at Gryphon House Books
• A former neuro-developmental specialist, Angela has specialized training in
neuroscience and is a nationally recognized speaker. She has been featured
on Chicago’s WGN Channel 9 News, Chicago Public Radio’s Chicago
Matters, Chicago Parent and Chicago Baby Magazines

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Let’s Boldly Go Where Few Workshops Have Gone
Before…
1. Self-reflection and negativity
bias
2. Context analysis
3. Preventions
4. Replacement skills
5. New responses

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What Is Challenging Behavior?
Challenging behaviors are developmentally appropriate.
Aggression is a natural occurrence as children journey down
the path of development, it is considered an expression of a
child’s age and some degree of aggression should be expected
during the early childhood period.
Aggression is a reflection of children’s limited experience and
stage in development. In other words, if you are looking for a
calm, quiet, peaceful classroom full of compliant, self –
regulated three year olds you might have unconsciously
internalized episodes of the TV show Romper Room from your
childhood, because behaviors such as hitting, pushing, and
kicking are commonplace among the preschool set.
Challenging behaviors become concerning when they are
frequent and intense
http://challengingbehavior.cbcs.usf.edu
Turn to a Partner
List The Feeling Words That
Come to Mind When A Child
Has Challenging Behaviors…
Come to Mind About Their
Families….
Come to Mind About Your
Colleagues/Co-Workers…
Apply Logic Apply Logic Apply Logic

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Captain Kirk Is So Emotional!
Positive emotions like passion for your work,
excitement and creativity are assets in the field of
early childhood.
Negative emotions aren’t not necessarily bad, but
because many of us were not allowed to process
negative emotions as children, it might trigger
negative feelings in us when we see children
exhibit those same feelings. So instead of
displaying an advanced sense of emotional control
we are perpetually experiencing the same fear and
lack of control we held as young children. I like
many of you have learned to bottle up my own
negative feelings which results in them boiling over
because a two year old tells me “no” .
Young children are C0-regulators. Like a tandem
bike adult emotions operate in unison with child
emotions and you can’t maneuver one without
impacting the other.
Negativity Bias: What Is Happening in Your Brain?
• Survival requires urgent attention to possible bad outcomes but
less urgent with regard to good ones
• Emotional brain activity processes information milliseconds
earlier than the rational brain
• Negative emotions involve more thinking, and are processed
more thoroughly than positive information
• Everyone remembers negative things more strongly and in more
detail
• Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and
more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones
• You are accessing the most primitive part of the brain and
negative emotions can erode productivity and decision-making

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“This kid is never
absent! This is
going to be the
worst year of my
career!”
“He never stops
crying –Maybe
center care is
not for him.”
“These little trouble makers
are not going destroy me. Thank
goodness my resignation letter is
in the car. Let me date it, sign it
and you can beam me up outta
here Scottie!”

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Turn To A Partner: List Ways You Calm Down
List ways you calm down when
challenging behaviors occur
1. Pause and touch my heart
2. Get a fan to cool off!
3. Narrate how I am feeling
4. When parents say something like
“you are just a babysitter” or “kids
don’t have rules until they are 12” I
take a drink of water to pause
List ways you can prevent
challenging behaviors
List ways you can teach
replacement skills for challenging
behaviors
List ways you can change your
responses to challenging
behaviors
“You got this.
You are not alone.
We can work this out.”
“No parent says ‘I can’t wait to
mess this kid up!’
They are doing the best they can”

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Turn to a Partner: Apply Logic to All Those Emotions
You Stated Earlier. Help Each Other!
Is jail a feeling word?
These kids is going to jail
Families….
Frustrated! This family is
nuts, they bring them
here every day knowing
how they act!
Unappreciated and alone.
Ain’t no way any teacher
has to go to the bathroom
that much! They just want
to leave me in here alone
with all these kids!
Logical Reasons Behind
Behavior….
These kids are not going
to jail they are learning
how to behave I must
learn the skills to teach
them new ways to behave
This family could be
struggling, they are only
doing what they know
how to do
I wonder if they are really
sick? I wonder what else
is going on in their lives?
Turn to a Partner
Families….
Apply Logic Apply Logic Apply Logic

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Implicit Bias
• Bias and stereotypes tend surface in everyone when faced with a child that
exhibits challenging behaviors weather you are conscious of it or not. I am
not trying to attack your moral character. Implicit bias often runs counter
to your belief system. Let me also share these some statistics in case you
run across a college that might show bias.
• In 2015 Jason A. Okonofua and Jennifer L. Eberhardt recruited a diverse
group of kindergarten thought 12th grade teachers from across the
country. In two experiments teachers were given school records labeled
with stereotypical Black (Deshawn or Darnell) and White (Greg or Jake)
names. The results showed that teachers were more likely to categorize
Black students as “troublemakers”, view multiple infractions as a
connected pattern, and suggest severe punishments.
• In 2016 researchers Andrew Todd, Kelsey Thiem and Rebecca Neel showed
undergraduates pictures and images of 5 year old Black boys were
associated with the threat of aggression.
• Another more recent study showed aspiring teachers in training images of
Black and White male and female faces along with videos of Black and
White boys misbehaving in school and results showed teachers mistakenly
view emotions for Black faces as negative and more likely to view
misbehaviors of Black boys as hostile (Halberstadt, Castro, Chu, Lozada,
Sims, 2018)
• Because I was Black I thought I was immune, but a 2016 research study by
the Yale study center showed while teachers of all races were bias, black
teachers tended to be even more harsh on black students than their white
counterparts and recommend harsher discipline.
If you are not bias AWESOME! I wish more children had such great experiences! Personally, I would like to think I am not bias
but am I the best person to make that assessment? Test yourself like I did! Write down all the names of children that challenge
you. Is there a pattern to the students you view as challenging? There was for me most- were boys.
Turn to a Partner
• I have had time to digest all this
information. How are you taking
this all in?
• What are you wondering?
• Are there any ideas that leave
you frustrated?

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Behavior Planning is an Intellectual AND
Emotional Enterprise
Now You Are Ready To Move On To Behavior
Planning! ABC’s Context Analysis

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Turn To A Partner
List ways you calm down
when challenging behaviors
occur
List ways you can
prevent challenging
behaviors
behaviors
behaviors

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Preventions

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Turn To A Partner
occur
List ways you can
prevent challenging
behaviors
behaviors
behaviors
Who am I?

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Telling Isn’t Teaching

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I will set up the Environment for Success
Photos used with permission of Head Start Center for Inclusion
www.headstartinclusion.org
Teach
Replacement
Skills
Counting card teaches child count to
20 while waiting for a turn.

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Turn To A Partner
occur
List ways you can
prevent challenging
behaviors
behaviors
behaviors
New Responses

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Turn To A Partner
occur
List ways you can
prevent challenging
behaviors
behaviors
behaviors
Questions?

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Download Entire PowerPoint on my Social Media!
#simplesolutions@NAEYC
Angela Nelson-Searcy
OR
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Educational Services Page
@Angela_Searcy

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