Multi-Tiered Systems of Support: A Practical Guide to Preventative Practice

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is a framework for delivering evidence-based interventions to improve students' learning, behavior, and social-emotional outcomes. This book provides step-by-step guidance for each stage of the process, covering MTSS from a whole child perspective and using diagrams, checklists, and flowcharts to organize and summarize the information. Case studies offer practical examples of implementation strategies, and unique sections on data-based decision-making and culturally responsive practices offer readers ways to adapt and refine their implementation of MTSS.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 26 September 2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is a crucial framework for delivering evidence-based interventions to improve students' learning, behavior, and social-emotional outcomes. This practical guide, authored by Gary Schaffer, makes it easy to understand and apply this framework in educational settings. The book focuses on the common elements of MTSS intervention service delivery models, providing step-by-step guidance for each stage of the process. From a whole child perspective, MTSS empowers educators to set up learners for the greatest success in school and beyond.

The book simplifies the MTSS model using an overall analogy of building a house. It begins with the foundation, which encompasses the history of MTSS, the walls, which represent the four main intervention service delivery models, the framework, which are common components that link all delivery models, and the roof, which represents MTSS as a whole. Diagrams, checklists, and flowcharts accompany each step of the MTSS model, organizing and summarizing the information on each model. Case studies offer practical, in-depth examples of implementation strategies across models within MTSS.

Additionally, unique sections on data-based decision-making and infusing culturally responsive practices into RTI, SWPBS, Social-Emotional RTI, and Suicide Prevention and Intervention provide readers with ways to adapt and refine their implementation of MTSS. This text serves as a convenient resource for educators, saving them time in locating information on interventions, measures of universal screening, and progress monitoring specific to each intervention service delivery model within MTSS. By embracing MTSS, educators can create a supportive and inclusive learning environment that promotes the growth and well-being of all students.

Weight: 520g
Dimension: 254 x 203 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781071831144