Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)

This SPDG Directors Webinar featured presentations from Indiana and Oklahoma SPDG teams focused on dissemination, critical perspectives, MTSS implementation, and systems feedback loops.

Lucy Fischman (Indiana SPDG) presented Dissemination Workbook and Engaging Critical Perspectives: A Comparative Analysis, exploring the complementary purposes and uses of the EIR Dissemination Workbook and the SISEP Engaging Critical Perspectives Tool.

The February Directors Webinar highlighted practical approaches to sustaining SPDG work and building statewide capacity. Tom Delaney (Minnesota SPDG) shared “tool of the month” sustainability resources states are using to plan for the long haul. Abby Foley and Dena Slanda introduced the LEAD IDEA Center and its supports for implementation and continuous improvement. Michael Gregory and Erin Sturgis (Virginia DOE) then showcased Virginia’s comprehensive approach to implementing and sustaining MTSS through coordinated SPDG and other grant-funded initiatives.

This session will focus on "How states are obtaining student outcome data & drilling down to the student level."

Here are links to some of the resources that were shared:

Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Website

This session focused on recent developments in measuring two educational innovations: Integrated MTSS (I-MTSS) and systems coaching. As I-MTSS research continues to grow, schools across the country have become more aware of this evolution of MTSS. Dr. Pierce shared implementation bright spots and common challenges schools have faced in implementing I-MTSS with fidelity. She also summarized approaches to measuring systems coaching, highlighting one state’s effort to develop and use a systems coaching fidelity measure.

During this meeting we reviewed and discussed (a) Oklahoma’s MTSS initiative Professional Development Sequence, (b) AIM’s School Leaders’ Coaching Readiness Assessment, and (c) I-MTSS Research Network’s MTSS Summary.

Integrated MTSS frameworks: Supporting students’ social, emotional, behavioral, & academic growth

This session answers four key questions about I-MTSS:

1. Why consider Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (I-MTSS)?
2. What is I-MTSS?
3. How do we adjust I-MTSS for the current context?
4. Where do I learn more?

A Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) offers an alternative approach to family engagement. A tiered approach to family engagement helps teachers and administrators adapt to the contexts, needs, and preferences of every family in the school so that ALL families are engaged in their children’s education. In this session, Georgia’s MTSS Communications and Family Engagement Specialist Carole Carr discusses the importance of helping families understand their role within the framework and how uplifting student voices strengthens engagement and improves student success.