I’m so excited to speak with you today.

If you’ve realized you’re in “reactive mode” with challenging behaviors…

(You feel like you’re putting out fires when it comes to behaviors in your classroom and you haven’t consistently been planning ahead to prevent repetitive behaviors.)

And, you’ve DECIDED to get out of reactive mode…..

Then you’re on your way to develop a proactive approach to challenging behavior.

Yep. Deciding to get out of reactive mode and make a change is the first step.

The second step is to get in that proactive mindset and make PLANS.

The good news is sometimes those plans can be simple, just tweaks to what you’re doing!

The key is you’re planning. You’re striving to be proactive. You’re prevention minded.

Yes, you might need to expand your toolbox of challenging behavior tools and strategies.

And/or you might need help, support and coaching in when to use which strategies.

But for now I want to urge you to simply work with the knowledge, tools and strategies you already have and think about one behavior you’d like to prevent tomorrow…

What new thing can you plan to do to support the child who has a difficult drop off?
How might you prevent chaos with a different prompt, song or game to transition into circle time?
How might you plan to help Juan not to wonder at center time and get focused on an activity - even for just a few minutes.
How can you proactively teach Amelia the right words to use to ASK for toys rather than grabbing them?

You might not get the proactive plan to prevent these behaviors right the first time.

BUT simply by planning you’ve moved out of reactive mode and into PROACTIVE mode.

Then we can finesse and figure it out from there from a much more empowered state.

Let me know your thoughts and plans in the COMMENTS below.