Student Support

Second Step Curriculum

To support the social emotional development of our students, Casa Azafran teachers implement Second Step lessons daily in the classroom.

Second Step programs empower preschoolers, teens, and all ages in between with human skills to build lifelong success. Second Step offers a cohesive family of research-based programs that work together to provide kids with important skills throughout their developmental stages, and in both classroom and out-of-school time settings.

Pyramid Model Framework

The Pyramid Model is a framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development. The Pyramid Model provides a multi-tiered framework of practices for promoting the social, emotional, and behavioral skills of children from birth to five.

The Pyramid Model includes: universal classroom practices to promote social-emotional learning and prevent challenging behavior; universal and targeted instructional practices to promote social, emotional, and behavioral skill development; and classroom interventions to support children with social, emotional, and behavioral needs.

The Pyramid model uses Positive Behavior Support to provide interventions to students. PBS provides a process to understand and resolve the problem behavior of individuals or children that is based on values and empirical research. It offers an approach to develop an understanding of why the child engages in problem behavior and strategies to prevent the occurrence of problem behavior while teaching the child new skills. Positive behavior support offers a holistic approach that considers all factors that have an impact on a child and the child’s behavior. It can be used to address problem behaviors that range from aggression, tantrums, and property destruction to social withdrawal.