Central Elementary has adopted Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). What is it and why are we using it?

• a system of prevention, early intervention, and tiered support
• ensures all students, including both struggling and advanced learners, are achieving to high academic and behavioral standards
• individual student progress is monitored and results are used to make decisions about further instruction and intervention

• Both are critical for school success
• Share critical features of quality classroom instructional strategies, universal screening, progress monitoring, and data-based decision making
• Both utilize a tiered prevention model
• Both incorporate a team approach at school level, grade level, and individual level
• Models of integrated behavior and reading supports produce larger gains in literacy skills than the reading-only model (Stewart, Benner, Martella, and Marchand-Martella, 2007)