Join us for this two-day training that is designed to strengthen your current skill set or add new tools to your inventory.  In this two-day training, you will increase your current understating of Conscious Discipline®, the highly effective social emotional curriculum to support work with children, families, and Early Head Start/Head Start programs. 

 

Conscious Discipline® promotes permanent behavior changes in both adults and children. The paradigm of change is from a traditional compliance model of discipline relying on lower brain center approaches of threat and force to a relationship-based community model that relies on higher-order thinking skills.

 

This training is intended for everyone: Early Head Start/Head Start Administrators, Coaches, Teachers, Teacher Assistants, and Family Engagement Staff. 

 

As a result of this training, participants will be able to increase the fidelity of their implementation of Conscious Discipline throughout their Early Head Start/Head Start program.

 

Participants will learn about the Conscious Discipline® brain model that will not only help adults maintain self-control but teach it to all children, including those with special needs.

• Identify how the brain learns to self-regulate and how to “wire” children for self-control
• Examine adult “triggers” and strategies to manage them
• Identify strategies to shift from external to internal control, creating classrooms that promote connection and unity
• Identify brain-based strategies to teach self-regulation to adults and children

Participants will become familiar with the 7 Powers and Skills and structures of Conscious Discipline®, and learn how to incorporate these into classrooms to move from “consciously decorating” to consciously implementing Conscious Discipline®.

• Identify the 7 Powers and Skills
• Identify the classroom structure aligned with the 7 Powers and Skills
•  Identify the helpful phrase for each of the 7 Powers and Skills
• Strengthen adult self-regulation found in the 7 Powers

 

Sue Dierks has over 25 years of experience in the field of early childhood education that includes classroom teaching, teacher coaching and training and program administration. Sue’s thesis work explored resiliency in Head Start preschoolers and that interest in resiliency continues today. She is currently the Director of Western Egyptian Head Start, a program with sites throughout three counties in southern Illinois.

Sue’s strengths are system integration, technical trainings, individual coaching for both teachers and parents and meshing Conscious Discipline with Head Start monitoring systems and outcomes.

Sue has an encouraging style that supports staff and parents through the journey of implementing Conscious Discipline. Sue enjoys sharing that through the implementation of Conscious Discipline, Western Egyptian Head Start has made zero behavior referrals since 2008.

Experience

Sue has over 25 years of experience in early childhood education that includes classroom teaching, teacher coaching and training, plus program administration. She is currently the Director of Western Egyptian Head Start.

Specialization

Sue specializes in coaching teachers and parents, while integrating Conscious Discipline with Head Start monitoring systems and outcomes, supporting staff and parents through implementation journey.

Certification

Sue is a Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor.

Certification

Sue is a Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor.

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