SESSION I: INITIAL TEAM TRAINING Presented by the MBI Consultants

Module 6: Staff Commitment

Critical Components Commit to a common purpose and approach to

discipline—creating 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 behaviorsEstablish a system for using data to make decisions,

progress monitor, and problem-solve

MBI/PBS Meeting Minutes and Problem-Solving Action Plan

Form

Today's Agenda Items:

1.Plan activities to increase staff commitment

Experiences we face when implementing MBI

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”

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 we’ll do to get there– we evaluate our progress– we decide whether to keep going or change

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?”

If your staff is not familiar with MBI/PBIS

3. After completing any surveyshare the results with your staff.

Use Data to Confirm MBI Works

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

Define Commitment

If you’re already committed…

• Did you miss any steps?• Are there any steps you need to

review with your staff?

Maintaining Commitment

Methods to involve staff during MBI development and implementation

Strategies to Help:: Communication

Strategies to Help: Respond to Common Arguments Against MBI

• “My responsibility is to teach academics.”• “I don’t have enough time.”• “I’m already meeting the behavioral

needs of my students.”• “I don’t believe in rewarding students for

something they should already be doing.”

Nearly every organization or work team we’ve 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)

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.

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

What do you think?

Your opinionmatters.

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Strategies to Help: User-friendly staff implementation

tools• All materials

provided to staff in one easy to use binder

Strategies to Help: Celebrations!

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

ACTIVITY