Region IV CSPD
FREE Professional Development in Southwest Montana
MBI to MTSS: Behavior and Academics
March 23, 2020 8:30-4:00
Holiday Inn Express: Helena
MBI is MTSS Behavior and Academics:
Moving to a braided model approach with MTSS Behavior and Academics can be done successfully as proven by many Montana schools. This training will explore the systems work that has proved effective in MTSS and will guide MBI teams into next steps to braid behavior and academic systems.
OBJECTIVES
raining and team activities are designed to help the team refine and strengthen the systems and practices currently in place at the universal (benchmark) level for behavior and academics. The team will: -Review the essential components of MTSS -Assess the level of MTSS implementation at your school -Understand support systems that are available to support MTSS implementation -Action Plan next steps for implementation -Leave with their school’s current MTSS systems & practices documented in their own MTSS Handbook!
This is a team based professional deveopment. Attendees need to come as a team (2 individuals can make up a team), and bring a laptop, a tablet will not work.
PRESENTERS
Carla Heintz is a retired school psychologist. She has been working as a part-time consultant with the OPI since 2011, first with Response to Intervention and then with Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. She strongly believes that high quality evidence-based instruction, intervention, and assessment practices are the most effective model to ensure that ALL students receive the level of support necessary to be successful.
Sandy Elmore is a retired special educator. She has worked part-time as a consultant for OPI since 2014 as a MBI consultant and MTSS consultant and as an instructional coach for Kootenai Valley Head Start for 5 years. She has been on the Libby Public Schools Leadership Team for the Montana Comprehensive Literacy Project .