Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MtSS)

Multi-Tiered System of Support (MtSS). In order to provide the most effective education for ALL children, we believe we must start by providing effective instruction for EACH child. To meet this goal, the District adopted a three-tier approach to instruction. This process, known as Multi-Tiered System of Support (MtSS), started when federal law established these practices as a way to identify and provide early intervention to students in need of additional support. Each tier provides additional instruction beyond the core curriculum. Students needing additional support academically and/or behaviorally will be monitored frequently to ensure students meet grade-level expectations.

• Tier I: The classroom teacher differentiates instructional strategies and/or materials to help each child become successful, and monitors progress continually through formative assessment. This might include differentiated work assignments, special seating, conferring, etc.
• Tier II: Is additional instruction delivered to students surrounding a targeted skill. Students are monitored towards targeted goals.
• Tier III: Is a problem solving, team approach through which students with significant needs are identified, measurable targeted goals are collaboratively planned, intensive interventions are developed, and student progress is continually monitored.

Multi-Tiered System of Support (MtSS) is a process that provides immediate intervention to struggling students at the first indication of failure to learn. Through systematic screening of all students in the early grades, classroom teachers identify those who are not mastering the critical reading skills and provide differentiated intervention to small groups of students. 

Continuous progress monitoring of students’ responses to those interventions allows teachers to identify students in need of additional intervention and to adjust instruction accordingly.