Implementation science has demonstrated that to get lasting, school-wide change, selecting the right initiative (think MTSS or Science of Reading) alone won’t be successful! We need to also empower educators and support change in order to see lasting success.

Should we focus on Tier 1 of my MTSS? If you regularly find that you run out of intervention capacity before you serve all students, you should shine a spotlight on Tier 1. The good news is that when you focus on Tier 1 improvements, all students benefit!

We all know an MTSS isn’t successful with interventions alone. Football teams need more than a quarterback, restaurants need more than a fantastic bartender, and some could argue that even Bravo needs more than Andy Cohen! Focusing solely on one part of an MTSS will lead to exhausted, overwhelmed educators and lackluster student growth. Maximize learning and empower educators with an MTSS plan designed around these 4 elements.

A multi-tiered system of support, or MTSS, is a framework designed to support schools to use data to allocate local resources to equitably meet the educational needs of all students. It is depicted through a tiered infrastructure, highlighting the resources provided to all, some, and a few students.