Haring Center

Projects

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Inclusionary Practices Technical Assistance (IPTN)

The Haring Center has partnered with Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction to create model demonstration sites highlighting inclusionary best practices statewide. Explore the IPTN website to find impact stories, school webinars, artifacts, and more.

Pyramid Model

The need for strong, effective, family-centered, and anti-biased social-emotional learning (SEL) frameworks is greater than ever. Young children and their families have been greatly impacted by school and childcare closures due to COVID-19 and our early learning programs have developed systems to support SEL across early childhood settings.

In partnership with Cultivate Learning, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), and the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), the Haring Center has developed a training to support social-emotional tiered systems within early childhood classrooms. We have spent the past year supporting and training educators, leaders, and specialists from across Washington to implement WAPM: Inclusive and Equitable Pyramid Model Practices. Our team can help your program, school or district develop an effective infrastructure to support these practices, from leadership to the classroom level, including:

  • Training on inclusive and equitable Pyramid Model practices
  • Training in practice-based coaching
  • Classroom coaching
  • Leadership consultation

Both modules are rich in content and practice that reflect the most current research and evidence-based practices in early childhood social-emotional health. Even better, it is deeply grounded in trauma-informed practice which is so needed in the education of Native American students. In addition, the Pyramid Model addresses not only explicit viewpoints on concepts such as race, culture, and ethnicity for working across cultures, but it also addresses implicit assumptions and worldviews within social and philosophical frameworks. – Swan Innovations