Skip to main content

Region 6 Education Service Center

Dedicated to Serve

Logo for MTSS displayed alongside three colorful water bottles on a white background

  • MTSS is a framework that uses data to drive intervention and decision making. This framework helps schools and districts build their capacity to implement or to advance their practices in establishing an equity-based, multi-tiered system of supports for inclusive instruction and improved academics, behavior, and mental health for all students.

    An illustration of an umbrella with raindrops falling, representing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and its components: Response to Intervention (RTI), Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Restorative Practices (RP), Trauma Informed Care (TIC), Social Emotional Learning (SEL), and Mental Health.

  • A successful RtI system contains the following components – 

    • High-Quality Instruction: This applies to all three tiers and should be based upon valid research to prove it is successful when implemented with fidelity.  
    • District/Campus RtI Team: This team is composed of an administrator, interventionist/coaches, classroom teacher, counselor, parent, and diagnostician, LSSP, or SPED teacher, when needed.  This team meets frequently (at least once per grading period) to analyze data and make decisions for each individual student based on that data.  
    • Universal Screener: A quick norm-referenced test that identifies those students who may be at risk in both academic and behavioral categories.  
    • Progress Monitoring: A way to assess a student’s performance over time and to quantify a student’s rate of improvement.  Progress monitoring must represent the student’s academic development and guide instructional planning.  
       

    Building RtI Capacity Tools

    • Parent Notification Checklists and Sample Letters
    • Resource Pages
    • Booklets
    • Campus Needs Assessment Tools
    • Reading Instructional Tools
    • Math Instructional Tools
  • A flyer advertising virtual sessions for Tier MTSS, with dates, topics, and contact information.

  • A headshot of Lacie Little, Elementary Mathematics Specialist/MTSS Lead, with contact information.