By Canissa Grant
When a single preschool student’s trauma-related behavior outpaced everything in her usual classroom management toolkit, educator Canissa Grant didn’t fall back on stricter rules. She built a different model.
In this feature for Teaching Teachers Review, Grant walks through the three-step, data-driven process she developed: tracking behavioral antecedents, pairing social-emotional and UDL-based interventions with consistent family communication, and keeping her student support team actively engaged rather than checked out after one meeting. It’s a practical, honest account of what it takes to support a student whose behavior is communicating something far deeper than defiance.