Preventing Suspensions and Expulsions
in Early Childhood Settings

A Program Leader’s Guide to Supporting All Children’s Success

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Introduction Overview of the Issue Recommended Policies & Practices Glossary
  • Antecedents
  • Appropriate transitions
  • Behavior hypothesis statement
  • Behavior support plan
  • Challenging behavior
  • Child care ratio
  • Classroom environment or climate
  • Classroom rules
  • Clinical significance
  • Consequence strategies
  • Consequences
  • Cultural awareness
  • Cultural context
  • Cultural mismatch
  • Culturally responsive practices
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)
  • Descriptive praise and encouragement
  • Developmentally appropriate
  • Discipline gap
  • Disproportionality
  • Diversity
  • Emotional literacy
  • Equality
  • Equity
  • Expulsions
  • False negative
  • False positive
  • Fidelity
  • Full-time equivalent
  • Function of behavior
  • Functional behavioral assessment (FBA)
  • Implicit bias
  • In-school suspensions
  • Multitiered system of support
  • Nurturing relationships
  • Out-of-school suspensions
  • Positive peer social interactions
  • Positive school climate
  • Positive social-emotional development
  • Prevention strategies
  • Provider/teacher stress
  • Provider/teacher well-being
  • Replacement skills
  • Responsive interactions
  • Schedule and routines
  • Self-management
  • Self-regulation
  • Setting event
  • Social problem solving
  • Soft-expulsions
  • State-funded prekindergarten ratio
  • Suspensions
  • Teacher-child ratio
  • Teacher collaboration
  • Teacher leadership
  • Teacher stress
  • Technical adequacy
  • Transition warnings
  • Transitions
  • Universal screening and assessment tool
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