Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) is a decision making framework that helps educators monitor student progress and risk factors to connect students with needed resources in a dynamic, fluid, and responsive way. In an MTSS framework, students are monitored and supported in the areas of academics, social-emotional skills, behavior, and attendance. MTSS is not a program or a place. Educators in an MTSS framework consider the whole child when determining how to best respond to a student need. 

All students are screened early in the school year. Using that and other relevant data, educators work on teams to ensure that our core instruction meets the needs of our students while also providing a continuum of intensifying interventions to students who are demonstrating risk. It takes 3-5 years to fully develop an MTSS framework.

Parents and guardians are an essential part of a student’s educational success within an MTSS framework. Our educators want to develop strong partnerships with our students’ families. Guardians will be given a meaningful opportunity to participate in conversations about their student, including initiating a new intervention, reviewing progress of an existing intervention, and deciding to change or end an intervention.  Guardians may participate through a variety of formats including parent-teacher conferences, phone calls, emails, and two-way communication systems such as TalkingPoints.