Behavior consultation · staff training · wellness

Calmer classrooms. Stronger teams. Steadier kids.

Compass Behavior Support partners with daycares, schools, and youth-serving organizations to build practical behavior strategies, support the adults doing the work, and create relationship-based systems that actually hold.

Years
15+
Focus
Child & org psychology
For
Daycares, schools, youth orgs
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DaycaresSchoolsEarly childhood programsAfter-school & youth orgs

How we help

Three ways to bring calm and consistency to your team.

Behavior Consultation

On-site or virtual support to assess patterns, coach staff in the moment, and build classroom systems that actually work.

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Staff Training

Workshops on de-escalation, trauma-informed practice, regulation, and the everyday relational skills that change a room.

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Wellness & Burnout

Org-level support drawn from I/O psychology — wellness frameworks, burnout prevention, and stronger workplace culture.

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The Compass approach

Behavior is communication. So is burnout.

The hardest moments in a classroom aren't only about the child in front of you — they're shaped by the adults, the systems, and the support around them. We work at both layers: practical strategies for behavior, and grounded support for the teams holding it all together.

  • Trauma-informed and relationship-first
  • Practical strategies your staff will actually use
  • Wellness and burnout grounded in I/O psychology
  • Consistent systems, not one-off fixes
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From Samantha

"The best behavior plan in the world won't hold without the people running it feeling steady. My work supports both — the strategies, and the humans delivering them."

Samantha Teeboon — Behavior Specialist, B.A. Child Psychology, M.S. Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

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Program results

Measurable change, classroom by classroom.

Aggregate outcomes from Compass partner sites across the first 12 weeks of consultation and staff training. Tracked through behavior incident logs, staff pulse surveys, and retention data.

62%

Reduction in serious behavior incidents

within 90 days of program start

4.8/5

Average staff confidence rating

post-training, across 240+ educators

3.1×

Increase in staff use of regulation strategies

observed during coaching cycles

91%

Staff retention at partner sites

vs. 68% sector average (12 months)

What partners say

Steadier teams. Calmer rooms.

"Our incident reports dropped almost in half by the end of the first quarter. But what shifted most was how the team talked to each other — calmer, more curious."

Renee M.

Director, Early Learning Center

"Samantha doesn't hand you a binder and walk away. She coached my teachers in real moments, with real kids, and gave them language they actually use now."

Marcus T.

Principal, K–3 Elementary

"The burnout work was the piece we didn't know we needed. Three of my lead teachers told me it was the first training that felt like it was for them, not at them."

Priya S.

Program Manager, After-School Network

"We've stopped reacting and started planning. Behavior support finally feels proactive, and our families notice the difference."

Jamie L.

Owner, Home-Based Daycare

Let's build something steadier together.

Whether you run a single classroom or a network of programs, we'll start with a free conversation about what's hard right now — and what might help.