Multi-Tiered Systems of Support: A Comprehensive Student Support Approach
Jim Harris, MSW, Ed.S.
Associate Director of Training
harris106@marshall.edu
The problem with kids these days …
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“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
H. L. Mencken – American Journalist
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X + Child = Healthy Adult
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Simple Answers to Challenging
Student Issues
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Time-out & Suspension
Card Flipping
Character Education
Scripted Curriculum
Online Education
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Step Away From Curtain
Triangles Everywhere
WV Triangles
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Now What?
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Five Doors of Success
1. Clarity -­‐ What? 2. Desire -­‐ Why? 3. Belief -­‐ Can we? 4. Knowledge -­‐ How? 5. AcXon -­‐ Do it!
Life in Half a Second - Matthew Michalewicz
Clarity What?
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The Approach
• Philosophy • TheoreXcal OrientaXon • Theme • Language • PracXces • EvaluaXon
Mul0-­‐Tiered System of Supports
MTSS is a framework to ensure successful educaXonal outcomes for ALL students by using data-­‐based problem solving to provide, and evaluate the effecXveness of mulXple Xers of integrated academic, behavior, and social-­‐
emoXonal instrucXon/intervenXon supports matched to student need in alignment with educaXonal standards. http://www.florida-­‐rti.org/floridaMTSS/index.htm
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MTSS is
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Not specific practice or curriculum…it’s
general approach to supporting student
success
Not limited to any particular group of
students…it’s for all students
Not new…its based on long history of
practices & effective instructional design &
strategies
CONTINUUM OF
SCHOOL-WIDE
INSTRUCTIONAL &
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR
SUPPORT
FEW
SOME
~5%
~15%
Tertiary Prevention:
Specialized
Individualized
Systems for Students
with High-Risk Behavior
Secondary Prevention:
Specialized Group
Systems for Students
with At-Risk Behavior
Primary Prevention:
School-/ClassroomWide Systems for
All Students,
Staff, & Settings
ALL
~80% of Students
Horner, Lewis, Sugai, Todd, Walker…1995 19
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The MTSS Framework
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Desire Why?
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MTSS Outcomes
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Decreased Disciplinary Problem Behavior Increase PosiXve School Climate Improved OrganizaXonal Health Decreased Student Bullying Increased Academic Achievement
www.pbis.org
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Belief Can we?
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Good or Great?
Good Enough?
Red State Syndrome
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -­‐ to choose one’s aitude in any given circumstance, to choose one’s own way.” -­‐ Victor Frankl 28
PosiXve Psychology &
The Happiness Advantage
Achor, S. (2010). The happiness advantage: the seven principals that fuel and performance at work. New York: Broadway Books.
InspiraXon is…..
Purpose + Hope = Energy
Knowledge How?
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The MTSS Framework
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Essen0al Features of PBIS
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Teaming ExpectaXons & Rules Teaching Systems Reinforcement System Discipline Procedures – DefiniXons – Responses – Data CollecXon • Data Analysis & Planning
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AcXon Do It!
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Administrative Buy-In
Leader vs. Manager
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Readiness
Do it!
Mastering Mojo!
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Making it happen!
• What do you want to see? • How and when will you check? • Do you celebrate when you see it?
It’s a DUCK!
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Not Going to Work!
This is a neat project that the counselor and some of our “go gesers” can do.
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Essen0al Features of PBIS
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Teaming ExpectaXons & Rules Teaching Systems Reinforcement System Discipline Procedures – DefiniXons – Responses – Data CollecXon • Data Analysis & Planning
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Myth or Fact?
We have always done it that way, surely there is a good reason to keep it going! FIDELITY &
OUTCOMES!!
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Myth or Fact?
Once you implement MTSS systems it will be a piece of cake!
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Once you implement MTSS systems it will be a piece of cake! MTSS is a constant process of reflecXon and refinement in response to the inevitable changes that occur in schools. – Staff Turnover – Transient Students – Cultural Trends
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MTSS in WV Today
Hurdles to keep in mind
• Confusion as to what MTSS is. • Overwhelming need to improve behavior pracXce in schools. • Lack of infrastructure to support the intervenXons. • InsXtuXonal InerXa in EducaXon • BureaucraXc ADHD
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Why this will work!
• The research says so! • NaXonal & State CollaboraXon • WVEIS Discipline System • WV Schools are very familiar with the mulX-­‐Xered intervenXon model • A solid implementaXon and evaluaXon plan
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Moments
Miracles
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The Law of the Nudge
The Law of the Harvest
Pep Talk!
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Contact Us!
http://www.marshall.edu/atc/
Jim Harris, MSW, Ed.S.
Associate Director of Training
harris106@marshall.edu