As educators, we have all attended that training where we thought, "Oh, no.  It's something else that I have to do."  We have been there.  Educators are working to the point of exhaustion.  The last thing you need is "something else."

We are here to assure you that these practices are NOT "something else."  The practices are the glue that will pull all other items that you are part of together and hold them in place.  Implementing these evidence-based practices will not only improve the interactions and behaviors in your program.  It will also increase child outcomes, help improve quality ratings, increase the level of inclusion in your classroom, and ease the exhaustion you are feeling each day from having to micromanage every minute of the day.

We can hear you saying, "How is that?!" from here.  It's because all of the components of the projects we are working on in the state are evidence-based practices.  Evidence-based practices are evidence-based practices regardless of the title at the top of the page.  Increasing success with one, increases success in another.

Let's work smarter not harder, my fellow educators.  Our mental health counts!

~The ECSE Team