Sonoma County

610 Airpark Road
Napa, CA 94558
Phone: (707) 256-1100
TDD: (707) 257-0213
Fax: (707) 256-1112
Website: http://www.nbrc.net

Areas Served: Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties

2400 Las Gallinas Avenue, Suite 100
San Rafael, CA 94903-1454
Phone: 415-884-3535
Fax: 415-884-3555
Website: https://www.matrixparents.org

5340 Skylane Boulevard
Santa Rosa, CA 95403-1082
Phone: 707-524-2753

131 A Stony Circle, Ste. 300
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Referral: 707-544-3077
Fax: 707-544-2625
Website: http://www.sonoma4cs.org

P.O. Box 16
Guerneville, CA 95446
Referral: 707-869-3613
Fax: 707-869-2616
Website: http://www.rccservices.org

5340 Skylane Boulevard
Santa Rosa, CA 95403-8246
Phone: 707-524-2600
Fax: 707-578-0220

490 Mendocino Avenue, Suite 203
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Phone: 707-565-6686
Fax: 707-565-6619
Website: http://www.first5sonomacounty.org

5340 Skylane Blvd.
Santa Rosa, CA 95403-1082
Phone: 209-238-1700
Website: http://www.scoe.org

141 Stony Circle, Suite 210
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Phone: 707-544-6911 x1032
Website: http://www.capsonoma.org

North Bay Children’s Center (NBCC) is a Partner Site Program that has locations in Novato, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Sonoma, Santa Rosa and Healdsburg. The CA Teaching Pyramid Partner Site is located in Santa Rosa at the North Bay Children’s Center Steele Lane. This site has 1 full-day year-round preschool program serving up to 24 children. Services provided include early intervention services, full inclusion, healthy eating and garden education, parent education, professional development for staff and resources for families from the community. North Bay Children’s Center’s, mission is to ensure that all children, especially our most vulnerable, have access to those critical early learning experiences that build the foundation for life-long success.

North Bay Children’s Center Steele Lane began implementing the CA Teaching Pyramid in 2018 and became a Partner Site in 2021. NBCC works bridge the gap so that implementation of CA Teaching Pyramid is happening both at school and at home so the same language is being used essentially everywhere. We love to share about our use of CA Teaching Pyramid because it works! Because of implementation our staff is able to spend more time with the kids and build on their skills almost eliminating any behavior viewed by adults as challenging due to the tools learned from CA Teaching Pyramid.

“Teaching Pyramid has greatly changed our program in the most positive way. Behavior in the classroom has greatly decreased and staff expressed that they feel like they have the necessary tools to use with children who may display challenging behaviors.”

The 4Cs Old Elm Child Development Center program located in Sonoma County offers full-day and full-year childcare services. They have 40 children and 2 classrooms; one toddler and one preschool. They provide care to 8 toddlers (2yrs), and 32 preschoolers (3-5yrs). The program provides services to low-income families, with enrollment priority given to at-risk families. There are limited tuition slots for those families that are interested but do not qualify as at-risk.

The 4Cs Old Elm Child Development Center program also works and provides care to children who have been exposed to or have experienced trauma, thus, were hoping to find something to help reduce stress and provide appropriate interventions in their classroom. They feel they finally found it through the Teaching Pyramid Framework. They have seen it really is “close to magic”. Although they have just begun implementing the Teaching Pyramid practices this year, they are highly invested due to the immense progress they have already seen in the center. By using reflective practice through a lens of understanding, the culture at the center has grown in a positive way, and they feel they owe it all to their work with using the Teaching Pyramid framework. They hope to continue implementing the Teaching Pyramid framework’s, practices and strategies for further success. The 4C’s Old Elm Child Development Center became a Teaching Pyramid Partner Site in 2019.

Storybook Village is a Reggio-inspired program serving approximately 50 children 18 months to 5 years of age in four classrooms. The staff of ten adults was trained in the Teaching Pyramid in 2019 and became a Partner Site in 2020. Storybook Village has built the Teaching Pyramid framework into their program in a variety of ways. They have structured their environment to act as the “extra teacher” in the classroom—creating classrooms rich with visuals that guide children in the daily schedule, in the sequence and timing of key routines, and in positive Behavior Expectations. They share Teaching Pyramid strategies with parents through regular newsletters, Positive Solutions for Families sessions, involving families in classroom activities, and a parent area with Scripted Stories for home use.

The Storybook Village teachers have been extremely creative in teaching key social skills and emotional competencies. For example, they have rich cozy spaces where children can find photo albums of their families and other tools to help them manage strong feelings. Teachers have children act as problem solving leaders—bringing the Solution Kit to help others resolve conflicts and solve common problems. They highlight friendship skills by providing various media to create and display Friendship Art in the Regio art studio. The teaching teams are also adept in using Positive Descriptive Acknowledgment—short phrases that help children recognize their own positive behavior and the impact of that behavior on others—to create a classroom community that is Respectful, Healthy, Kind, and Safe.