Pyramid Model News

• Message from the Pyramid Model State Implementation Team (SIT)
• Pyramid Model Retreats
• National Training Institute (NTI) Nuggets
  
• Ideas to Celebrate Your Data
• Demonstration Classroom Reminder
• Family Engagement- Pyramid at Home Series
• Call to Family Educators: Positive Solutions for families
• Professional Development and Training Opportunities
• Pyramid Model/ PBIS Collaboration -PBIS Summer Institute
• Pyramid Model State Implementation Team Goals

Happy May!

We have almost made it to the end of the 2022-2023 school year. The weather is finally starting to look like summer is just around the corner (or so we hope). It has been a busy few months for all of us, but it has been especially busy for the Minnesota Centers of Excellence PDF team as they geared up to host in-person retreats for the first time in 4 years for all innovations! Further down, you will find resources shared, hot topics discussed, and pictures of all the fun that was had amongst professionals at both the North and Metro/South Pyramid Model Retreats. In this issue, you will also find information on our Demo Classrooms, new learnings from the National Training Institution (NTI) conference, creative ways to share data with your district’s stakeholders, tools for families for over the summer months, ideas for summer learning and/or new materials that you may want to prep this summer (update while you unwind!).

We are so thankful for you taking the time to read this SMORE and for all of the dedication to enhancing your students’ social-emotional-behavioral well-being. We, as the State Implementation Team, hope that you have a wonderful summer filled with experiences and activities that fill your bucket and meet all of your own social, emotional, and behavioral needs.

We look forward to partnering with you in 2023-2024!

Pyramid Model Communications Workgroup

Pyramid Model State Implementation Team

The Retreats were a welcoming sight to have back this Spring! This year we held the Classroom Engagement Model and Pyramid Model retreats together, as we have a growing number of sites implementing both innovations. We had 89 registered participants across 20 teams attend our North Retreat on April 28th in Bemidji. Our Metro/South Retreat was held on May 5th in Brooklyn Center with 123 participants across 26 sites.

Some of the highlights from this year's retreats were:

• Tucker the Turtle stopping by for a visit
• Swag bags for participants
• Great variety of spotlights, intensive sessions, and poster walkabouts.

Content Leads from MNCoE innovations recently participated in the annual National Training Institute on Effective Practices (NTI), which provides participants with an in-depth, intensive learning experience around the Pyramid Model. MN is proud to be one of 42 states formally implementing the Pyramid Model and one of 45 countries that is part of the international Pyramid Model community.

New resources that have recently become available or will be available from NCPMI in the upcoming year include:

• New Training Modules including updated videos, photos, and activities

• Revised Practices Implementation Checklists that are aligned to the TPOT and TPITOS

• New Fact Sheets on Trauma-Informed Care, Coaching, and Scale-Up

• Updated Teaching Tools for Young Children (TTYC)

• New Family Engagement Products

Check out new fun materials now available from The Discovery Source to support Pyramid Model implementation:

• Tucker & Suri’s Friends Finger Puppets & Hand Puppets

• Calming Kits

• Sure Spider Puppet (coming soon)

• Infant Toddler Classroom kits (coming soon)

The end of the program year is a great time to share and celebrate accomplishments over the past year. Here are a few ideas on who and how you might share your data

• Share with Families
• Share with Staff
• Share with Stakeholders (school board, Early Learning council, administration, funding sources)

Access the links below for Data Sharing infographics.

Congratulations to our 8 Demonstration Classrooms! These classrooms have been nominated by internal staff, reviewed by the Pyramid Model State Implementation Team, and have been recognized by the the Commissioner at the MN Department of Education. Being a Demonstration Classroom recognizes the outstanding dedication and consistent efforts these teams have invested in implementing Pyramid Model Practices.

Does your Pyramid Model Site also have teaching teams who have reached the Maintaining Phase of Fidelity? If so, we would like to hear about it and recognize their hard work and dedication in reaching the Maintaining phase of fidelity! Here's the simple process:

• Contact your External Coach/PDF to indicate your desire to nominate staff members.

• Your External Coach/PDF will share the link to a Google Survey for your site's Administrator or Data Manager to complete for each teaching team being nominated.

• Nominations will be processed by MNCoE in February and July of each year. (You may submit nominations all year long)!

• Continue to nominate additional teaching team members as they reach the Maintaining phase of fidelity!

• Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate!

Check out the new Pyramid at Home series, designed to provide implementation sites with easy to use handouts to share with families that include helpful hints on how to support social emotional development at home and in the community. Currently there are 4 handouts in the series: Emotions, Routines, Sharing, and Problem-solving.

The 2023-24 Training Calendars are posted on the MNCoE Pyramid Model Share Site. Next school year MNCoE is continuing to offer in-person (north, metro, and south) and virtual statewide training opportunities. Please remember to register in advance to help us best plan for your attendence.

MNCoE values our partnership with every program in Minnesota and looks forward to continued opportunities to work together for the benefit of all children and families.

Join Parent Educators throughout MN in exploring the updated Positive Solutions 7 session workshop series from NCPMI! We will meet for three 1-hour virtual sessions to discuss how you might want to roll out Positive Solutions in your program! Click on the image to the right for additional details.

Are you looking for additional resources to support internal Professional Development plans? Check out the Pyramid Model Consortium, where you will find ePyramid modules to continue building your internal sustainability systems.

The MN PBIS Summer Institute is taking place virtually on the mornings of June 14th and June 15th. There is no cost to attend this event, however registration is required. Our very own Emily Rustman, Westonka Pyramid Model team and representative on the Pyramid Model State Implementation Team, will be leading a session on using the Pyramid Model strategies to transition into elementary school. There will also be an array of PBIS-related topics including mental health, data systems, classroom strategies, equity, and aligning initiatives. For additional details around keynote speakers and the agenda, click on the following link: https://pbismn.org/summer-institute/

Our State Implementation Team goals for this school year included action steps to:

Goal 1: Develop Quality Assurance Mechanisms for work of Behavior Coaches

Goal 2: Support programs in developing Behavior Guidance policies

Goal 3: Increase promotion/marketing of Demonstration Classroom recognition system

Goal 4: Share work/data of the Pyramid State Implementation Team with broader audience

Goal 5: Create support to “veteran teams” on how to blend other instructional efforts into their Pyramid Model Framework (in-process)

If you have ideas for projects the PM SIT could address based on your program needs, please fill out the form at this link on our Pyramid Model Share Site.