SESSION I: INITIAL TEAM TRAINING

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Module 6 Staff Commitment

• SESSION I INITIAL TEAM TRAINING
• Presented by the MBI Consultants

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Critical Components

• Commit to a common purpose and approach to
  disciplinecreating a safe and welcoming culture
  that includes student voice and family/community
  involvement
• Establish and maintain team with administrator
  support, participation and leadership
• Establish a clear set of positive expectations
  and behaviors
• Establish procedures for teaching expected
  behavior
• Establish a continuum of procedures for
  encouraging expected behaviors
• Establish a continuum of procedures for
  discouraging inappropriate behaviors
• Establish a system for using data to make
  decisions, progress monitor, and problem-solve

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MBI/PBS Meeting Minutes and Problem-Solving
Action Plan Form

• Today's Agenda Items
• Plan activities to increase staff commitment

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Experiences we face when implementing MBI
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Obtaining staff commitment can sometimes be a
daunting task

• HISTORICALLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES
  
  TEACHERS ALREADY HAVE WAY TOO MUCH TO ADD ONE
  MORE THING

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MBI Involvement

• Remember
• MBI involves all of us
• we decide what our focus will be
• we decide how we will monitor
• we decide what our goals are
• we decide what well do to get there
• we evaluate our progress
• we decide whether to keep going or change

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If your staff is not familiar with MBI/PBIS

• 1. Show all staff one of two videos
• Discovering School-Wide MBI Moving Toward a
  Positive Future or
• Creating the Culture of Positive Behavior
  Supports
• 2. Provide suggested readings
• - MBI Fast Facts
• -So You Want to Reduce Misbehaviors?

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If your staff is not familiar with MBI/PBIS

• 3. After completing any survey
• share the results with your staff.

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Use Data to Confirm MBI Works
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Getting Staff to Buy-in to Adopting MBI

• 4. Determine if a majority (80) of your staff
  are interested and support implementing MBI at
  your site

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Define Commitment
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If youre already committed

• Did you miss any steps?
• Are there any steps you need to review with your
  staff?

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Maintaining Commitment

• Methods to involve staff during MBI development
  and implementation

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Strategies to Help Communication
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Strategies to Help Respond to Common Arguments
Against MBI

• My responsibility is to teach academics.
• I dont have enough time.
• Im already meeting the behavioral needs of my
  students.
• I dont believe in rewarding students for
  something they should already be doing.

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• Nearly every organization or work team weve
  spent time with astonishingly under communicates
  the genuinely positive, appreciative, and
  admiring experiences of its members. This is a
  terrible deprivation of the vitality of a work
  setting.
• Kegan Lahey (2001)

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Activity

• Find your partner
• Discuss the following
• How would increasing positive communication
  impact your staff?
• Identify a person on your staff you can target
  with random acts of ongoing regard.

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Strategies to Help Develop a Feedback Process

• MBI Feedback FormMBI is a school-wide
  initiative. Your feedback is very important to
  us.

• I would like to
• Offer a suggestion
• Volunteer my services or time
• Lodge a complaint
• Ask a question
• Acknowledge a success
• Ask for help
• - If lodging a complaint, please offer a
  suggestion

Your opinion matters.
What do you think?
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Strategies to Help User-friendly staff
implementation tools

• All materials provided to staff in one easy to
  use binder

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Strategies to Help Celebrations!
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1. Review the materials in this section of the
workbook2. Complete the communication planning
tool3. Update your TIPS II meeting form

• ACTIVITY