Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)
Equity is intrinsic to MTSS and should be embedded within each tier of supports.
An MTSS model that advances equity gives all students access to a great education in the most inclusive environment possible. This access is provided using universal screening and progress monitoring data to start a student in the least intensive support environment, and add or remove support as needed. In other words, each and every student receives just the right amount of support they need to succeed.
Equity-focused MTSS teams can bring their academic and behavior data together to answer questions like:
- Are there academic achievement gaps between groups of students?
- Which groups of students are attending school less than others?
- Do we see an over-representation of any groups of students in our behavioral data?
- Which groups of students are reporting few, if any, social-emotional strengths?
Honing in on the data can illuminate trends or differences in intervention efficacy and point towards areas where resources need to be allocated at district and school levels to promote equity.
Delaware County Intermediate Unit MTSS Consultants provide targeted and sustained training, consultation, and technical assistance in developing and implementing an effective, equity-focused MTSS Framework.
Support includes, but is not limited to:
- Universal screening
- Progress monitoring
- Implementing a multi-level prevention and intervention system
- Data-based decision making training
- Data-analysis
- Standards-based curriculum alignment