SEEDS Webinar Series
Learn about research-supported strategies so that you can better promote social-emotional wellness in the classroom!
*Please note that recorded webinars are not eligible for BFTS
Webinar #1: “Nurturing Positive Relationships”
This training provides an overview of the first layer of Tier 1 in the Pyramid Model: Nurturing and
Responsive Relationships. Participants will discuss the importance of building relationships with
children, families, and colleagues. Participants will reflect on their own current practices to
develop a plan for intentionally strengthening their relationships.
Relationships.mp4
Webinar #2: “Supportive Environments that Promote Engagement”
This training provides an overview of the second layer of Tier 1 in the Pyramid Mode framework,
High Quality Supportive Environments. Participants will learn strategies for creating early care
and learning environments that support children's social emotional competence and promote
engagement. When early learning environments support and promote children's engagement
and social emotional competence, they also significantly reduce challenging behavior.
Environments.mp4
Webinar #3: “All in a Day - Daily Schedule and Routines”
This training is an overview of the second layer in Tier1 of the Pyramid Model framework,
High Quality Supportive Environments: Schedules and Routines. Participants will uncover
strategies for developing and teaching schedules, as well as routines that support children's
social emotional competence and promote engagement.
Schedules.mp4
Webinar #4: “MOVE-ing Forward with Transitions”
This training is an overview of the second layer in Tier1 of the Pyramid Model framework, High
Quality Supportive Environments: Transitions. Participants will uncover strategies for
transitioning children during daily routines that promote engagement and help to significantly
reduce challenging behavior.
Transitions.mp4
Webinar #5: “Clarity and Consistency - Expectations and Rules”
This training is an overview of the second layer in Tier1 of the Pyramid Model framework, High
Quality Supportive Environments: Classroom Rules and Expectations. Participants will discover
the differences between expectations and rules. Participants will learn strategies for
developing and teaching expectations, as well as rules that support children's social emotional
competence and promote engagement.
RuleExp.mp4
Webinar #6: “Happy, Scared, Excited, Oh My! - Promoting Emotional Literacy”
This training explores Tier 2 of the Pyramid Model, Targeted Social Emotional Supports –
Emotional Literacy. Participants will explore ways to enhance emotional literacy skills using
strategies that encourage children to identify, label and express their emotions, as well as
those of other.
EmotionalLiteracy.mp4
Webinar #7: “Taking a Deep Breath: Promoting Self-Regulation”
This training explores Tier 2 of the Pyramid Model, Targeted Social Emotional Supports –
Emotional Regulation. Participants will learn strategies to help children learn about their
feelings and coping skills when they become angry. Participants will discover ideas about how
to help children find solutions to problems that may arise during their day in the early
childhood environment.
SelfRegulation.mp4
Webinar #8: “You’ve Got A Friend: Strategies for Promoting Friendship Skills”
This training explores Tier 2 of the Pyramid Model, Targeted Social Emotional Supports
- Friendship Skills. Participants will identify skills needed to make friends and learn how
to teach and support friendship skills among the children in their care.
FriendshipSkills.mp4
Webinar #9: “Behavior Communicates: Are you listening?”
This training is designed to build the participant's understanding of the definition of challenging
behavior in children and the many functions it may serve. It highlights the importance of using
objective data collection methods to support classroom strategies and evidence-based
interventions with young children.
BehaviorCommunicates.mp4