Preschool Support Team

Roles and Functions of Your Preschool Support Team

Lindsay Hickman
Preschool Director / Elementary School Principal
hickmanl@bcsberlin.org

Shavon Wilson
Preschool Intervention and Referral Specialist (PIRS)
wilsonsh@bcsberlin.org

- Provide coaching for the teacher to enhance his/her use of the Pyramid Model practices in the classroom (promoting social and emotional development)
- Support the classroom teacher by providing strategies and possible interventions for teachers to implement to promote the success of all students (Preschool I&RS process)
- Conduct classroom visits as necessary to coach and provide feedback to classroom staff
- Provide/Facilitate professional development 
Support teachers with documenting children's social/emotional development 
- Coordinate/plan developmental screening (i.e. ESI- Administered approximately 3-6 weeks into the program year)
- Follow up with children who score REFER or RESCREEN
- Furniture/Supplies/Resource that support pyramid model practices
- Conduct classroom observations using the 
- Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT) at least once per classroom

Corinne Mattia

Community Parent Involvement Specialist (CPIS)
mattiac@bcsberlin.org

- Creates positive relationships between the preschool, the community and the families. The CPIS is an active support to the teachers, families, students, and the preschool as a whole.
- Conduct Community Needs Assessment
- Share Results and Plan Activities to Address Needs
- Chair ECAC: Early Childhood Advisory Council
- Collaborate with Agencies and Support Families
- Organize Family Involvement: in class activities (wow! experiences), field trips, workshops for families 
- Develop the Monthly Newsletter
- Classroom Lessons: to address needs of students 
- Assisting with Conversations: regarding areas of support for students using positive, proactive, solution based thinking and strategies
- Assisting with Parent/Teacher conferences
- Facilitating and assisting with general meetings with families
- Attends PIRS Meetings

Amelia Wise

Preschool Social Worker
wisea@bcsberlin.org

- Case manager for students with IEPs 
- Special education resource for teachers and parents
- Assists in the process of students transitioning from Early Intervention 
- Assists teachers in developing appropriate IEP goals/ modifications/ accommodations
- Behavioral or Social/Emotional support
- Identifying and supporting students with developmental disabilities 
- Attends PIRS meetings/ assists with PIRS process 
- 504 Plan Case Manager  

Kristina Vasquez

Preschool Instructional Coach (PIC)
vasquezk@bcsberlin.org

-Provide instructional support for continuous teacher growth
-Visit classrooms to coach and provide feedback to classroom staff to support high quality teaching practices
-Model developmentally appropriate classroom practices/lessons
- Provide & Facilitate Professional Development
- Classroom Furniture and Supplies 
- Create orders, assure aligns with ECERS-3 & support classroom setup
- Curriculum/Assessment support
- Manage My Teaching Strategies online platform
- Support teachers with GOLD
- Administer/utilize ECERS, Creative Curriculum Fidelity tool
- Confer regularly with PIRS, CPIS, PSSW
- Plan kindergarten transition activities in collaboration with preschool and kindergarten teachers