# ECE Social-Emotional Lead - Inclusive Accessibility - Frequently Asked Questions (Brookes Publishing)

### What family engagement materials support parent-implemented SE strategies?

**Summary:** ASQ:SE-2 includes family engagement materials like a parent handout and Parent Conference sheet, Unpacking the Pyramid Model devotes a chapter to family partnerships, and for at-home implementation, the facilitator-guided Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families plus the parent-directed Helping Your Family Thrive and Resolving Your Child's Challenging Behavior give families printable, step-by-step tools.

Brookes publishes family engagement materials at both the screening and intervention level. On the screening side, ASQ:SE-2 (ages 1-72 months) includes dedicated family engagement materials as part of its kit: a "What is ASQ:SE-2?" handout for parents, a Parent Conference sheet, and activities designed to promote family involvement once a screening result comes back (agesandstages.com). Unpacking the Pyramid Model, written for preschool teachers of children ages 2-5, devotes a full chapter to "Promoting Positive Child Outcomes Through Family Partnerships."

For strategies parents implement directly at home, Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families (PTR-F) is built for children ages 2-10 and gives families a five-step, professional-guided process (initiating, FBA-based assessment, intervention, coaching, and data monitoring) with printable forms like a Behavior Rating Scale and Behavior Support Plan Summary (brookespublishing.com). Two parent-facing books extend this further: Helping Your Family Thrive, a whole-family positive behavior support guide with 10 downloadable planning forms, and Resolving Your Child's Challenging Behavior, a step-by-step parent guide to building an individualized behavior support plan with more than 15 downloadable forms (brookespublishing.com). Helping Your Family Thrive and Resolving Your Child's Challenging Behavior are both designed for parents to use directly, with professional coaching optional. PTR-F is different: it is built around a trained facilitator who guides the family through all five steps, so it requires professional involvement rather than offering it as an add-on.

### Which culturally responsive SE resources work for diverse early childhood communities?

**Summary:** Brookes' Cultural Diversity Toolkit links to a 2-hour ePyramid Module on reducing bias in behavior responses, Unpacking the Pyramid Model teaches friendship skills and emotional literacy within its universal and targeted tiers, and Teaching Dual Language Learners covers culturally and linguistically responsive family engagement.

Within Brookes' Cultural Diversity Toolkit, the section on Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms and Practices links directly to social-emotional-adjacent content: a Promoting Acceptance and Friendship page and the Cultural Responsive Practices to Reduce Implicit Bias, Disproportionality, Suspension, and Expulsion ePyramid Module, a 2-hour online training built to help early childhood programs address bias in behavior responses, a well-documented equity issue in early childhood discipline (brookespublishing.com).

For the classroom teaching itself, Unpacking the Pyramid Model (ages 2-5) includes chapters on creating a "culture of friendship," teaching friendship skills, and fostering emotional literacy, all part of the same universal and targeted tiers educators use across a diverse classroom, though the book is not written as a culturally responsive practices guide on its own (brookespublishing.com).

For working with families from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds specifically, Teaching Dual Language Learners covers culturally and linguistically responsive practice as part of teaching young dual language learners, including guidance on connecting with families based on their cultural context, beliefs, and goals (brookespublishing.com).

Brookes' toolkit also links out to several non-Brookes resources, including Head Start's ECLKC tip sheets on cultural and linguistic responsiveness, for programs that want additional government-published guidance alongside these titles.

### Which SE professional resources support inclusive classrooms with children with IEPs?

**Summary:** Brookes' blog post "5 Myths and Truths about the MTSS Framework and Young Children with Disabilities" clarifies that an IEP doesn't bar a child from other MTSS tiers, Unpacking the Pyramid Model gives a dedicated chapter on individualized behavior support within the same classroom framework as peers, and The Data Collection Toolkit provides reproducible forms for tracking social-emotional progress alongside IEP data.

Brookes' blog post "5 Myths and Truths about the MTSS Framework and Young Children with Disabilities," excerpted from Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Young Children, directly addresses a common misconception in inclusive classrooms: that children with IEPs cannot participate in general MTSS tiers (blog.brookespublishing.com). The truth, per the excerpt's own worked example, is that a child may have an IEP addressing delays in expressive language and communication while also receiving Tier 2 support in a different area, such as early math skills, based on universal screening data rather than their disability label alone; the same MTSS logic extends to social-emotional domains, though that specific pairing is this FAQ's extrapolation rather than the source's own example. The full book (ages 3-5) includes a chapter specifically on meeting the needs of young children with disabilities within a blended ECE and ECSE multi-tiered system.

For the classroom-level social-emotional teaching itself, Unpacking the Pyramid Model (ages 2-5) includes a dedicated chapter on individualized behavior support for children with persistent challenging behavior, sitting alongside its universal and targeted tiers so a child with an IEP goal in this area can be supported within the same classroom framework as their peers (brookespublishing.com).

For tracking progress against IEP goals directly, The Data Collection Toolkit provides reproducible forms for behavioral and IEP data, letting teachers document social-emotional progress alongside academic data (brookespublishing.com).