MTSS Overview

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Vermont defines MTSS, or Multi-Tiered Systems of Support as “A systemic approach to decision-making for excellence and equity within a culture of continuous improvement that focuses on successful outcomes for all students.”  This approach:

 

  • Supports the collaboration of all adults to meet the academic, behavioral, social and emotional needs of all students,
  • Provides a layered system of high-quality, evidence-based instruction, intervention, and assessment practices that are matched to student strengths and needs,
  • Relies on the effective and timely use of meaningful data,
  • Helps districts and their schools organize resources to accelerate the learning of every student, and
  • Engages and develops the collective expertise of educators, students, family and community partnerships.

 

WNESU and the MTSS framework

A district’s MTSS Framework supports a focus among classroom teachers, interventionists, school counselors and special educators on preventing academic, social/emotional, and behavioral difficulties and improving learning for all students through increasingly differentiated and intensified assessment, instruction, and intervention.  Additionally, a robust MTSS provides a framework that “at a minimum, includes an educational support team, instructional and behavioral interventions, and accommodations that are available as needed for any student who requires support beyond what can be provided in the general education classroom, and may include intensive, individualized interventions for any student requiring a higher level of support”. (VT AOE MTSS)
 
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