HPS touts Pony Pride at Havre Chamber meeting

A group of Havre Public School faculty, staff and students spoke at the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's Annual Meeting about the district's Pony Pride Initiative.

Pony Pride is the local version of the Montana Behavioral Initiative. MBI programs are meant to encourage positive standards of behavior among students in a school setting, district Assistant Superintendent Craig Mueller said.

The big idea behind MBIs, Mueller said, is to see the academic gains that come from positive behavior and positive enforcement of the rules.

"Rather than the rules being punitive, they support positive behavio...