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Creating a Forward Thinking Mindset Through MTSS

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Creating a Forward Thinking Mindset Through MTSS

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PPT

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Continuous Improvement Cycle Action Plan

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Drew Dudley

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Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership | TED Talk

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We have all changed someone’s life -- usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives.

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TedTalk by Simon Sinek

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Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question: “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers…

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Leadership Training & Employee Development Platform

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Leadership development training programs that can enable your employees and build great teams.

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MindsetWorks | Growth Mindset | Growth Mindset Programs

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Brainology is an online interactive program in which middle school students learn about how the brain works, how to strengthen their own brains, and how to better approach their own learning. In the process they develop a growth mindset whereby they think of their intelligence as something they can develop through study and learning rather than as something fixed, as explained by our co-founder Dr. Carol Dweck.

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LCFF Priorities/Whole Child Resource Map

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LCFF Priorities/Whole Child Resource Map

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Each ray in the circle represents one LCFF priority. Click at the top of the ray of the priority you are interested in to get a list of resources and supports.

The star in the middle of the circle represents the whole child (from Cradle to Career) surrounded by those who want to ensure that ALL students are healthy, safe, engaged, challenged, and supported. Click in the middle of the star to get a list of the whole child resources.

Continuous Improvement Resources

These resources provide information about how local educational agencies and schools can support the needs of California's diverse student population.

Whole Child Resources

Whole Child resources that support schools in creating an environment where all students are safe, engaged, supported, challenged and healthy.

LCFF Resources by Priority

Last Reviewed: Monday, July 03, 2023

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LCFF Priorities/Whole Child Resource Map

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This map provides Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) priorities and whole child resources and supports to help local educational agencies, schools, and families serve the needs of the whole child.

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Universal Access Chapter

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Where Are We?

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The AI Hub is developed and maintained by the State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center (SISEP) and the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN).

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Assessing Best Practices

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Exploring the Implementation Landscape

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Publication Date: March 2013

When creating implementation capacity in an organization new to active implementation, the first task is to map the current implementation landscape. The ImpleMap interview process assists implementation specialists in collecting information to inform active implementation planning and development in the organization.
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ImpleMap: Exploring the Implementation Landscape

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Publication Date: March 2013 When creating implementation capacity in an organization new to active implementation, the first task is to map the current implementation landscape. The ImpleMap interview process assists implementation specialists in collecting information to inform active implementation planning and development in the organization. Files:

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Discussion Questions

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Exploring Context

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Active Implementation Quick Reference Guide

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Active Implementation Quick Reference Guide

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SWIFT MTSS Guide - Inclusive Behavior Instruction

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SWIFT MTSS Guide - Inclusive Behavior Instruction

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SWIFT MTSS Guide - Inclusive Academic Instruction

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SWIFT MTSS Guide - Inclusive Academic Instruction

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Multi-Tiered System of Support, or MTSS, is an inclusive system of support for all students, and encompasses Universal Support, Additional Support, and Intensified Support. The final installment of the MTSS Trilogy, this short SWIFT clip by Dan Habib highlights how SWIFT schools implement intensified support: ongoing specially designed instruction, extra support, and other services for a few students. General and Special Educators use progress monitoring data to discern which supports students need in order to include every child in the general education classroom. Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation (SWIFT) is a national K through 8 technical assistance center that builds school capacity to provide academic and behavioral support to improve outcomes for all students through equity-based inclusive education.
To learn more about SWIFT, visit http://www.swiftschools.org

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Multi-Tiered System of Support, or MTSS, is an inclusive system of support for all students, and encompasses Universal Support, Additional Support, and Intensified Support. Second in the MTSS Trilogy, this short SWIFT clip by Dan Habib highlights how SWIFT schools implement Additional Support: interventions for specific skills often given to small groups of students that last only as long as needed. School leaders use Universal Screening to predict which students need support beyond what Universal Support offers, in order to include every child in the general education classroom. Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation (SWIFT) is a national K through 8 technical assistance center that builds school capacity to provide academic and behavioral support to improve outcomes for all students through equity-based inclusive education. To learn more about SWIFT, visit http://www.swiftschools.org

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Multi-Tiered System of Support, or MTSS, is an inclusive system of support for all students, and encompasses Universal Support, Additional Support, and Intensified Support. First in the MTSS trilogy, this SWIFT clip by Dan Habib highlights how SWIFT schools implement Universal Support, which relies on a core curriculum aligned with academic standards. School leaders apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, which helps teachers provide instruction using diverse methods in order to include every child in the general education classroom. Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation (SWIFT) is a national K through 8 technical assistance center that builds school capacity to provide academic and behavioral support to improve outcomes for all students through equity-based inclusive education. To learn more about SWIFT, visit http://www.swiftschools.org

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Chapter 9: Access and Equity

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SWIFT Fidelity Integrity Assessment (FIA)

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SWIFT Fidelity Integrity Assessment (FIA)

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Resources

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The California Department of Education's (CDE) definition of Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) provides a basis for understanding how California educators can work together to ensure equitable access and opportunity for all students to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). MTSS includes Response to Instruction and Intervention (RtI ²) as well as additional, distinct philosophies and concepts.

CDE's Definition of MTSS

In California, MTSS is an integrated, comprehensive framework that focuses on CCSS, core instruction, differentiated learning, student-centered learning, individualized student needs, and the alignment of systems necessary for all students' academic, behavioral, and social success. California has a long history of providing numerous systems of support. These include the interventions within the RtI ² processes, supports for Special Education, Title I, Title III, support services for English Learners, American-Indian students, and those in gifted and talented programs. MTSS offers the potential to create needed systematic change through intentional design and redesign of services and supports that quickly identify and match the needs of all students.

California's Multi-Tiered System of Support

Comparing MTSS to RtI²

CDE's RtI ² processes focus on students who are struggling and provide a vehicle for teamwork and data-based decision making to strengthen their performances before and after educational and behavioral problems increase in intensity. Please visit the CDE Web site on RtI² for further information.

MTSS Differences with RtI²

MTSS has a broader scope than does RtI ². MTSS also includes:

Focusing on aligning the entire system of initiatives, supports, and resources.

Promoting district participation in identifying and supporting systems for alignment of resources, as well as site and grade level.

Systematically addressing support for all students, including gifted and high achievers.

Enabling a paradigm shift for providing support and setting higher expectations for all students through intentional design and redesign of integrated services and supports, rather than selection of a few components of RtI and intensive interventions.

Endorsing Universal Design for Learning instructional strategies so all students have opportunities for learning through differentiated content, processes, and product.

Integrating instructional and intervention support so that systemic changes are sustainable and based on CCSS-aligned classroom instruction.

Challenging all school staff to change the way in which they have traditionally worked across all school settings.

MTSS is not designed for consideration in special education placement decisions, such as specific learning disabilities. MTSS focuses on all students in education contexts.

MTSS Similarities to RtI²

MTSS incorporates many of the same components of RtI ², such as

Supporting high-quality standards and research-based, culturally and linguistically relevant instruction with the belief that every student can learn including students of poverty, students with disabilities, English learners, and students from all ethnicities evident in the school and district cultures.

Integrating a data collection and assessment system, including universal screening, diagnostics and progress monitoring, to inform decisions appropriate for each tier of service delivery.

Relying on a problem-solving systems process and method to identify problems, develop interventions and, evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in a multi-tiered system of service delivery.

Seeking and implementing appropriate research-based interventions for improving student learning.

Using school-wide and classroom research-based positive behavioral supports for achieving important social and learning outcomes.

Implementing a collaborative approach to analyze student data and working together in the intervention process.

Venn Diagram of MTSS and RtI²

The following figure displays similarities and differences between California's MTSS and RtI ² processes. Both rely on RtI ² 's data gathering through universal screening, data-driven decision making, problem-solving teams, and are focused on the CCSS. However, the MTSS process has a broader approach, addressing the needs of all students by aligning the entire system of initiatives, supports, and resources, and by implementing continuous improvement processes at all levels of the system.
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Last Reviewed: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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The California Department of Education's definition of Multi-Tiered System of Support and a comparison between it and Response to Instruction and Intervention.