“An effective curriculum will promote literacy, communication, and numeracy skills as well as creative thinking and metacognitive strategies across various classroom activities by using information from formative assessments to meet the needs of diverse learners and individualize scaffolding strategies.”
-Teaching Strategies (2018)
Conscious Discipline is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach. It is recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), and received high ratings in 8 of 10 categories in a Harvard analysis of the nation’s top 25 social-emotional learning programs. The Harvard study’s authors say, “Conscious Discipline provides an array of behavior management strategies and classroom structures that teachers can use to turn everyday situations into learning opportunities.”
Developmental continuum assessment tool used to assess all developmental domains (Approaches to Learning, Social and Emotional Development, Language and Literacy Development, Cognitive Development, and Physical and Health Development) from infancy to kindergarten.