# MTSS - PBIS Coordinator - Implementation Support - Frequently Asked Questions (Brookes Publishing)

### How do schools engage families in MTSS and PBIS processes?

**Summary:** Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Young Children devotes a full chapter to engaging families in early childhood MTSS (ages 3-5), while Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families extends the PTR model into the home for individualized behavior support with children ages 2-10.

Family engagement is built into Brookes' MTSS and PBIS resources rather than treated as a separate add-on. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Young Children devotes a full chapter, Engaging Families in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, to designing an MTSS built around families' strengths and needs, alongside its broader guidance on Tier 1 through Tier 3 programming for children ages 3-5 (brookespublishing.com).

On the individualized behavior side, Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Families, designed for children ages 2-10, is a dedicated title in Brookes' Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) series, built specifically to extend the PTR model, teaming, functional behavioral assessment, and a data-based intervention plan, into the home so families can use the same process schools use for challenging behavior (brookespublishing.com). The core Prevent-Teach-Reinforce book for K-8 classrooms also emphasizes collaborating as a strong, cohesive team throughout its five-step process, and schools commonly include family members in that teaming step, though the book itself doesn't specify who sits on the team.

Together, these give schools a documented way to bring families into both the early childhood MTSS process and the K-8 individualized PBS/PTR process, rather than a single universal PBIS family-engagement product (brookespublishing.com). The right resource depends on whether the need is system-wide MTSS or an individual student's behavior plan.

### What's a cost-effective PBIS implementation for a small district?

**Summary:** Behavior Support, Third Edition ($34.95) is the most cost-effective single-title path for a small district's PBIS rollout, covering all three tiers with reusable reproducible forms, and Prevent-Teach-Reinforce ($49.95) adds a five-step individualized model for the K-8 students who need Tier 3 support.

For a small district, the most cost-effective PBIS path is Brookes' Behavior Support, Third Edition, a single $34.95 book (paperback or e-book) that walks a school through all three tiers of positive behavior support: universal school-wide interventions, selected interventions for students showing risk behaviors, and specialized, individualized support for students who need intensive help (brookespublishing.com). It comes with reproducible forms, including a team meeting agenda, PBS plan worksheets, an FBA profile, an incident record, and an ABC checklist, so a small district doesn't need a separate licensed forms package.

For the subset of students whose behavior doesn't resolve with universal and selected supports, Prevent-Teach-Reinforce ($49.95) adds a structured, five-step individualized model for K-8 classrooms, also built around reproducible forms included in the book (brookespublishing.com).

Both books are one-time purchases that a district can reuse across staff and school years, which keeps per-student cost low as staff and enrollment change. Because Behavior Support is written for K-12 settings, a small district can start with that single title district-wide and add Prevent-Teach-Reinforce only for the individual students who need Tier 3 support (brookespublishing.com).