Supports and Services

Schools often find that additional services enhance the implementation of the ideas and strategies that were experienced during the conference. Services can be tailored to your community’s needs and goals. All options can be either virtual, hybrid or in-person (if geographically possible)*

• Group of six attend plus two coaching sessions for these attendees
• Group of six attends plus five sessions support group series.
• Group of six attend plus two coaching sessions and five sessions support groups series.
• All of the above plus three parent sessions.
• All of the above plus three Professional Development sessions for your whole staff.
• Individual support sessions for teachers (supporting mental health AND teaching practice). Recommended three sessions minimum
• Administrator & School Leader Support and/or mental health team support sessions. Recommended three sessions minimum
• Social Work Supervision and/or Mental Health Team Support Sessions. Recommended three sessions minimum

Description of Services:

• Coaching Sessions:
  Promotes integration of ERP core concepts and implementation of ERP techniques through observation, consultation, and modeling.
• Support Group Series:
  Provides safe and supportive space for teachers to discuss classroom experiences and integration of ERP approaches. 
• Parent Sessions:
  Provides safe and supportive holding space for family grownups to establish a deeper sense of community with one another. ERP provides support in navigating challenges at home and ways to enhance their connection to themselves and their self care needs and to their children. Possible sessions include Parenting in Times of Change; Cherry Pies and Lullabies: Parenting past, present and future; End of School Year Issues and Transitions
• Professional Development Series:
  Half-Day Sessions can be created specifically for your center’s needs or what is emerging for each group. Popular workshop title include Development and Experience Come to School; The Power of Reflective Language and Literacy; Trauma-informed and Healing-Centered practices for Educators; Bibliotherapy and Teacher-Made Books
• Individual support sessions for teachers (supporting mental health AND teaching practice):
  These sessions provide a safe space for teachers and classroom assistants to discuss classroom experiences and the integration of ERP approaches. They will share and partner in thinking with an ERP coach about building emotionally responsive school space as well as responding to specific needs and situations.
• Administrator & School Leader Support Sessions:
  These sessions provide a safe space for administrators and mental health team members to share and partner in thinking with an ERP coach about building emotionally responsive school space as well as responding to specific situations.
• Social Work Supervision and/or Mental Health Team Support Sessions:
  These sessions provide a safe space for clinical practitioners to  share and partner in thinking with an ERP coach about building emotionally responsive school space as well as responding to specific situations. Our clinical social workers can provide required supervision hours for social workers.

*In-Person services are currently available in the NYC metropolitan area, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York Hudson Valley, Providence and greater Rhode Island, and the Boston metropolitan area. Travel costs may be included for all in-person services.  In-person services for other geographic areas can be available if lodging costs are included.

Please email erp@bankstreet.edu to discuss options for your center/school.

Staff work collaboratively with teachers, assistants, and early childhood administrators to model and integrate emotionally responsive practice in their school setting.

A six-seminar series for teachers focusing on “inviting and containing” emotional and social issues in the early childhood classroom.

A ten-session series for social workers provides school-based clinicians with theory and technique for effective interventions with children and parents in early childhood settings. Alternatively, a monthly social work supervision group can support the clinical skills necessary to meet the challenges of working with teachers, children, and families in the school setting.

A seminar series and/or support group to provide administrators with a deep understanding of child development and the relationship between emotional integration and learning. Implications for administrative policies and practices are explored.

Annual whole-school retreats on emotionally responsive school routines, adult-child interactions, and the use of literacy and responsive curriculum.

A ten-session series of Parent Engagement Groups co-led by Bank Street and school staff is available to parents of early childhood students. The groups are designed to enhance parents’ ability to help their children thrive emotionally in the school setting. In groups, parents will reflect on their experiences as parents and as students using an expressive arts format.

Teacher stress is a problem that may negatively affect a teacher’s practice. This 16-session group offers teachers the time and space to diminish the emotional isolation of the classroom and reflect on their experiences with children and parents.

An intensive five-session training in Emotionally Responsive Practice theory and technique for interdisciplinary teams of teachers, social workers, early childhood coordinators, and administrators. The institute includes inter-visitations, classroom observations, and post-observation seminars.

Available for schools who have ERP onsite coaching.