MTSS Framework

MTSS Framework Flow Chart

What is MTSS? (click here)

• Ensures that all schools are functioning in the MTSS process
• organizes faculty and staff
• ensures needs of all students are met
• year round decision making

Infrastructure

• Students in Tier 2 and 3
• Approved tools: iSteep, Dibels 8, CBM
• Completed in intervals (mostly weekly or biweekly)
• Interventions are skill specific
• Educators monitor to make sure that students are making progress or if an intervention needs to be changed.

Progress Monitoring

Multi-Level Prevention System

• Every student is in a tier
• Tier 1 - high quality instruction using QPTS
• Tier 2 and 3 take place outside of Tier 1.
• Students have intervention block built into schedule.
• Ensures every professional is supporting students

• Everyone looks at data to analyze
• Multiple data points should be used
• Looked at frequently
• Uses Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) process to assess, plan, and improve instruction
• Use Data based Decision Making Flow Chart

Data-based decision making

• Every student gets screened to support enrichment/intervention in reading and writing
• Given three times per year in all grades
• Helps make informed decisions about process and students

Screening

Note: Written Expression framework should be included in literacy supports continuum. Include screener for writing: WriteScore

Universal Screening Flow Chart

(Gwinnett County Public Schools, 2023)

• Defined by educators in 2006, 2018, and 2023
• provides instructional strategies to teachers
• QPTS and Responsive Teaching Practices help address individual needs of all learners
• Focused on three components: teacher knowledge, student engagement, and curriculum standards

Quality Plus Teaching Strategies

For all Tier 1 Students ( Gwinnett County Public Schools, 2023)

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-Processing what is being read-Summarizing, inferencing, main ideas

Comprehension

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- forms letters and words coherently- -expression, organization and clarity

Writing

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- accuracy and speed which reading- word-recognition skills

Fluency

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-basic organization and features of print-letter-sound correspondence

Foundational

Literacy Interventions

(Gwinnett County Public Schools, 2023

What is MTSS?

Multi-Tiered System of Support

MTSS is similiar to RTI, but also includes behavior and community supports. Prescott (2022) mentions that MTSS lives "under the umbrella" of RTI. The MTSS process also eliminates the outdated fourth tier model (Dickerson, 2 022) from the RTI, so that all students receive support regardless of status in a program (like Gifted or Special Education). (Dickerson, 2022; CSULA, 2016)

• Benefits of MTSS:
• provides professional development and coaching for educators
• outlines defined roles for all stakeholders

Universal Screeners

When and how will we assess?

Universal screeners will be given three times per year: beginning, middle, and end of the school year to support assessment, instruction, and planning in literacy.

• Reading - i-Ready or MAP (school-based decision)
• Writing - WriteScore

(Intervention Central, n.d.)

Writing Interventions

Writing interventions were not included in the literacy continuum o r screening for Gwinnett County's MTSS plan. The following are the recommended writing interventions:

• Spelling
• Cover-Copy-Compare
• Repeated review
• Sentence structure
• Teaching Rules by Doing
• Overall Expression
• Effective Elements