MTSS Stands for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support and represents an umbrella of academic, behavioral, and cultural intervention supporting a school.  MTSS is defined as a whole-school, data-driven, prevention-based framework for improving learning outcomes for EVERY student through a layered continuum of evidence-based practices and systems.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Beneath the MTSS umbrella, the following programs fall:

• Universal Design for Learning: A set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.

• Response to Intervention (RtI): Using screening, progress monitoring, and a three-tiered system of support to increase intervention intensity dictated by learning needs. 

• PBIS (Positive Behavior Systems of Support): A proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture and needed for all students in a school to achieve social, emotional and academic success.