Montana Behavioral Initiative (MBI)
Positive Behavioral Interventions & Support (PBIS)
We Believe......
All students should be taught the skills necessary for success: academic, social, emotional and behavioral.
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Dr. Tim Lewis, University of Missouri |
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What is MBI?
MBI Belief Statements
- All students should be taught all the skills necessary for success: academic, social, emotional, and behavioral.
- Schools are places where students can learn and practice positive interpersonal, cross-cultural, and citizenship skills.
- A caring school climate and positive relationships between students and staff are critical to student success and provide an environment where academics flourish.
- Schools are places where youth have access to many significant adults to help them feel collectively and individually valued.
- Schools and communities must work together to meet the diverse needs of students and honor the traditions and contributions of both family and community members.
- All students are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.
- Successful schools gather and use a variety of information to improve teaching and learning.
- Effective use of a team approach involving all school staff working together provides a consistency which enhances student success.
- Positive, proactive and preventative efforts of schools and communities can create a school climate free of stereotyping, harassment, hatred and violence—filled with a concern for justice and fairness.
MBI Key Goals
- Training:
To increase the awareness and understanding of effective schools practices. - Team Process:
To increase and improve the use of team processes in educational decision-making and in addressing issues concerning our youth. - Proactive Support Systems:
To support the implementation of best practices procedures in Montana's schools, foster beliefs which hold that all children are valued, and that positive and proactive approaches to problems produce the most satisfying results. - Evaluation Process:
To increase awareness regarding the value and use of data-based decision- making in education. - Community Process:
To foster the belief that the education of today's youth is a community responsibility.
MBI is a proactive approach in creating behavioral supports and a social culture that establishes social, emotional, and academic success for all students.
MBI uses the Response to Intervention model which is a 3-tiered system of support and a problem solving process to assist schools in meeting the needs of and effectively education all students.
"Data-based decision-making aligns curricular instruction and behavioral supports to student and staff needs. Schools applying MBI/PBIS begin by establishing clear expectations for behavior that are taught, modeled, and reinforced across all settings and by all staff. This provides a host environment that supports the adoption and sustained use of effective academic and social/emotional instruction. MBI/PBIS has proven its effectiveness and efficiency as an Evidence-Based Practice (Surai and Horner, 2007)
The principals and practices of MBI/PBIS are consistent with federal education mandates such as No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) (pbis.org)
Four Elements of MBI/PBIS
| Outcomes: | academic and behavior targets that are endorsed and emphasized by students, families and educators |
| Practices: | curricula, instruction, interventions, and strategies that are evidence-based |
| Data: | information that is used to identify status, need for change, and effects of interventions |
| Systems: | supports that are needed to enable the accurate and durable implementation of the practices of MBI/PBIS |
Getting Started
Steps to becoming an MBI School
- Complete ApplicationWord Version
- Attend Initial Team Training
- Select Site Facilitator
We are currently taking applications for additional schools interested in becoming MBI/PBIS sites for the 2013-2014 school year. Each site must identify a team that is representative of the staff at their site (including an administrator).
Site MBI Teams may apply to attend four days of MBI Team Training during the school year. These trainings will be held in the five CSPD regions in order to make them accessible for all those interested. The following dates have been scheduled for the team trainings:
2013-2014 Phase I (new schools) and Phase II (continuing schools)
| September 16-17, 2013 | Sidney |
| September 23 -24, 2013 | Fairmont |
| September 30-October 1, 2013 | Billings |
| October 7-8, 2013 | Great Falls |
| October 28-29, 2013 | Missoula |
| January 13-14, 2014 | Sidney |
| January 27-28, 2014 | Billings |
| February 3-4, 2014 | Great Falls |
| February 10-11, 2014 | Missoula |
| February 24-25, 2014 | Fairmont |
| Facilitator(s) Training | |
| November 8, 2013 | Bozeman |
If you are interested in becoming a Phase I MBI school, please review and complete the application Word Version. Due September 6, 2013.
Components of MBI
- Oversees the development of MBI practices and principles
- Links with state coordinator and the various components of MBI
- Meets regularly for sharing, communicating, and strategic planning
- Coordinates efforts to impact statewide policies, guidelines or structures which will promote the mission and goals of the MBI
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- Develop and provide technical assistance, training, and support services
- Support site teams in their understanding and implementation of MBI goals
- Serve on the MBI Council
- Participate in focused training, joint problem-solving and coordinated efforts to promote the mission and goals of MBI
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- Contracted evaluator analyzes statewide implications of MBI
- Ongoing decision-making and management activities
- Data-driven decision-making management
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- Participate in professional development training, enhancing facilitator and team leadership skills
- Help sites develop an understanding of the MBI process
- Organize an MBI team to identify and address site-based concerns
- Guide sites through the MBI process
- Extend knowledge of "best practices" and validated educational strategies
- Assist in the development of community development
- Network with educators and community members statewide
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- Workshops and conference presentations
- Listserv participation
- Web site information
- Brochures and other resources
- Site visitations and presentations
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Community and statewide agencies support MBI by:
- Working with schools to strengthen community and state resources supporting policy and procedures to facilitate effective and efficient services for our youth
- Coordinating community-based services with schools
- Encouraging change that enables schools and communities to provide quality services for youth
Youth Day and High School Forum
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- Links the MBI components together
- Coordinates professional development training
- Networks with other agencies
- Develops materials
- Assists with Summer Institute planning
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- Nationally recognized professional development institute - June 18-22, 2012
- Nationally renowned speakers
- George Batsche
- Dan Habib (Education Revolution)
- Karl Mecklenburg
- Tim Lewis
- Susan Isaacs
- Mickey Corso
- Kim Marcum
- many, many more
- More than 4,000 individuals and site teams educated in best practices
- Networking opportunities for community partners
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Who Needs to Be Involved?
Commitment and support begins at the district level and district leaders need to be informed and dedicated to the implementation of MBI. In order to be successful, building administrators and a majority of staff need to support the MBI Process.
For More Information: Contact your regional consultant.
Facilitators Forum
Site Facilitator - Responsibilities
- Participate in professional development training, enhancing site facilitator and team leadership skills
- Help site's develop and understanding of the MBI process
- Organize an MBI team to develop and identify site-based concerns
- Guide sites through the MBI process
- Extend knowledge of "best practices" and validate educational strategies
- Assist in community development
- Network with educators and community members state-wide
Facilitators' Tools
Training Materials
- Module 1: Introduction and Classroom Expectations and Rules
- Module 2: Classroom Procedures and Routines - PowerPoint
- Module 3: Classroom Strategies to Acknowledge Appropriate Behaviors - PowerPoint
- Module 4: Classroom Response Strategies and Error Correction - PowerPoint
- Module 5: Classroom Active Supervision - PowerPoint
- Module 6: Classroom Active Engagement & Multiple Opportunities to Respond - PowerPoint
- Module 7: Classroom Activity Sequence and Offering Choice - PowerPoint
- Module 8: Classroom Academic Success and Task Difficulty - PowerPoint
- Module 9: Administrative Classroom Walk-Through and Brief Observation - PowerPoint
- Module 10: What’s Next?
- Effective Classroom Practices Action Plan
- Notes pages
- Session II - Agenda
- Completing the Team Implementation Checklist
- School Survey Data Entry Information Sheet
- Module 1
- Module 2 - Procedures for Discouraging Inappropriate Behavior
- Module 3 - Introduction to Outcome Data-Based Decision-Making Using Office Discipline Referrals
- Module 4 - Understanding My Voice Survey
- Module 5 - Listening to Student Voice with Focus Group
- Module 6 - Active Supervision
- Module 7 - Finale
- Module 8 - Surfin' the Web Part II
- Session I - Agenda
- Module 1 - Initial Team Training
- Module 2 - MBI Team Overview
- Module 3 - Developing 3-5 Universal Expectations/Matrix
- Module 4 - Teaching School-Wide Expectations
- Module 5 - Establishing Procedures for Encouraging Expected Behaviors
- Module 6 - Staff Commitment
- Module 7 - Establishing Procedures for Data Collection
- Module 8 - Next Steps
- Action Planning Guide
- Administrative Leadership
- Administrator Roundtable
- Administrator Strategies
- "Just Like Me"
- Lesson Plan to Address Behavior (Blank)
- MBI Workbook
- The 90/90/90 Schools - A Case Study
- Session III - Agenda
- Module 1 - Before We Begin....
- Module 2 - Getting Everyone on Board
- Module 3 - Becoming a Culturally Competent School
- Module 4 - Crisis Planning Overview
- Module 5 - Family and Community Engagement
- Module 6 - Introduction to Outcome Data-Based Decision Making Using OfficeDiscipline Referrals
- Module 7 - Bully Prevention
- Module 8 - What's Next?
- Administrator's Handbook
- Advanced Coaching: Providing Technical Assistance Within the Tier II Process
- Consultant Checklist During Team Trainings
- Contents of Training Crates Masterlist
- Crate Contents
- Expectation Posters
- Forms and Materials Needed at Team Training
- MBI Team Training Report
- MBI Team Training Session 1 (Billings) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 1 (Butte) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 1 (Great Falls) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 1 (Glasgow) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 1 (Missoula) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 3 (Billings) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 3 (Butte) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 3 (Great Falls) Sign-in-Sheet
- MBI Team Training Session 3 (Missoula) Sign-in-Sheet
- Renewal Unit Sign Up
- School Informatin Form PBIS Assess
- Team Training Participation Form (Long)
- Team Training Participation Form Revised 2
- MBI Session 1 Evaluation
Cool Tools from Montana Schools
“Cool Tools from Montana Schools” provides links to tools used by exemplar schools and provided to help schools in all stages of the MBI process. Links include:
Expectation Matrixes
Hardin Middle School
On-Track Behavior Expectations Poster
Ray Bjork Pre-School
Includes how staff can provide support to acquire the desired behaviors from the students
Sidney Middle School
Matrix_Home
Matrix
Matrix_Community
| Date | Filename |
| 09/22/10 | ROAR Matrix.doc |
| 09/22/10 | ROAR Home Matrix.doc |
| 09/22/10 | Home ROAR matrix letter.doc |
What does it take to be a Husky?
Lesson Plans
Belt
| Date | Filename |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-Teen Driver Safety Lesson.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-Respect lesson 5.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-Respect lesson 4.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-Respect lesson 3.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-Respect lesson 2.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-Respect lesson 1.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-All Settings, Learner, how others see me.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Belt-All Settings, Learner, Self Esteem Questions.doc |
Great Falls
| Date | Filename |
| 09/12/12 | Teaching_Behavior_Plan.pdf |
| 09/12/12 | Blank lesson plan to address respectful behavior.doc |
Hardin
| Date | Filename |
| 06/15/12 | Hardin-MBI Respect for Self and Others.doc |
| 06/15/12 | Hardin Sentence Starters Respect Form.docx |
Libby
| Date | Filename |
| 09/30/10 | Lunch Line.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Lockers.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Hallways.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Entering Exiting building.doc |
| 09/30/10 | Bus Ride.doc |
Videos
Visual learning tools that are used by Montana MBI Schools
- Can You Believe This? - Teaching Humor To Think About
- The Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) Model: Using Office Discipline Referral Data (Universal Strand)-by Dr. Robert Horner
Photos
Success Stories
Conrad High School
Earth/Science Placemat
Health Placemat
Helena Middle School
Be A Champ PowerPoint: Used at Helena Middle School to address Effective Classroom Practices: Procedures and Routines This PowerPoint blends CHAMPS with the HMS Universals. Each classroom has their own variation of these posters.
Central Elementary
Pawsitive Slip Directions: From Central Elementary—given to staff after presentation at faculty meeting to address the systems piece of positive reinforcement
Smith School
Referral Flow Chart: Used to define how staff responds to inappropriate behaviors
Helena School District Wide Universals:
Success Story—Universal Expectations defined at all 16 Helena School District Sites
Utterback Middle School
Placemat #1
Placemat #2
Hardin MS
Discipline Procedures Flowchart Achievable Dream
Making Tracks for Success
Passport to Success
Hardin
MBI Website
Corvallis
Critical Behavior Bookmark
Office Referral Form
Rewards
Fair-Mont-Egan
Teacher Checklist
Service Learning Projects
Youth Days 2012
Youth Days 2012 by City:
- Miles City
September 30, October 1
- Missoula
October 7 – 8
- Great Falls
November 4-5
- Bozeman
November 11-12
- Billings
December 2-3
MBI Social Network
What is the MBI Social Network?
The MBI Social Network is an Open Text Social Media (OTSM) community that allows members to share ideas about MBI activities.
What can you do on the MBI Social Network site?
Within the MBI Social Network site, you can:
- carry on discussions
- upload (post) files of interest to all MBI schools
- upload documents to share
- create and add to wikis
- check who belongs to the community and tracks recent activity
- monitor community activity when you aren't connected to OTSM.
Early Childhood
The MBI Early Childhood strand was designed to specifically focus on strengthening the capacity of childcare, preschool, and Head Start programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes for all young children. Best practices in universal, targeted, and individualized prevention and intervention strategies are emphasized.
Implementation...
| Date | Filename |
| 12/21/06 | Think Sheet.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | TeachingPlanObservation.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Teaching Plan.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | TeacherObservationForm.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Sticker Reinforcers.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Social Skills Terms.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | SocSkillsLessonPlanTemplate.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | PosBehaviorRecognitionFrm.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | More Beehive Stickers.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | ManagiEscalatingBehaviors.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | EarlyChildSocialCurr.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Crisis Plan.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Behavior Flow Chart.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Behavior Basics.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Beeline.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | BeehiveGroupIncentive.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | Beehive Sticker.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | BeSafeWalkingFeetLesson.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | BeSafePlaygroundLesson.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | BeResponsibleLesson.pdf |
| 12/21/06 | BeKindShareLesson.pdf |
Evaluation...
Behavior Flag
Early Childhood Behavior Incident Report
Early Childhood Behavior Improvement Plan
Early Childhood Functional Assessment Checklist
for Teachers and Staff (EC FACTS-Part A)
Early Childhood System-wide Evaluation Tool: Program-wide
(EC SET-PW)
Positive Behavior Support
Teacher Survey
Safe Schools Assessment and Resource Bank (SSARB)
Teacher Questionnaire on Social Validity of Implementing
Early Childhood Positive Behavior Support
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a
National center focused on strengthening the capacity of child care and Head Start programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning: What Works Briefs
Summaries of Effective Practices for Supporting Children's Social-Emotional Development and Preventing Challenging Behaviors. The Briefs describe practical strategies, provide references to more information about the practice, and include a one-page handout that highlights the major points of the Brief.
Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
funded by the U.S. Department of Education , Office of Special Education Programs to raise the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.
CO-TEACH Preschool
The mission of CO-TEACH Preschool at the Division of Educational Research and Service, is to offer all children a stimulating, playful first school experience and to provide them with the skills they need to achieve - now, when they transition to kindergarten, and during the years that follow. Moreover, CO-TEACH operates on the belief that all children and families have individual strengths and needs and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity in a safe school environment.
Dr. Carolyn Webster-Stratton’s the Incredible Years
The Incredible Years are research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children's aggression and behavior problems and increasing social competence at home and at school.
How to Promote Children’s Social and Emotional Competence by Dr. Carolyn Webster-Stratton
For teachers of children aged 4-8 years, this book shows how teachers can work with parents in addressing children’s educational and emotional needs. The author presents a variety of classroom management strategies which teachers can choose from to strengthen children’s social and academic competence and develop their emotional literacy.
Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Program (DECA)
Strength-based assessment and planning system for children ages 2-5. Based on resilience theory, this comprehensive system is made up of a 5-step system designed to support early childhood teachers, mental health professionals, and parents in their goal of helping children develop healthy social/emotional skills and reduce challenging behaviors.
School Mental Health Resources
School Mental Health Toolkit
- Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health - What Young Adults Want YOU to Know
- Kelsey's story
- Mari's Story
- If You Really Knew Mental Illness
- Tips from Us (tips from youth on how to support youth diagnosed with mental illness)





