The MTSS framework is comprised of four essential components: screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, and data-based decision making. This collection of infographics provide an overview of key features of each of the essential components of MTSS.
Progress monitoring is the repeated measurement of student performance over time. It requires reliable and valid tools and a clear process to monitor the necessary students with fidelity. Data from progress monitoring is used to assess student performance, quantify improvement or responsiveness to intervention and instruction, and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction, interventions, and supports. This infographic illustrates key features of progress monitoring at the elementary and secondary grades and considerations for progress monitoring tools and processes.
Universal screening uses a systematic process for identifying students who may be at risk for poor learning outcomes, including academic, behavioral, social, emotional, school completion, and college and career readiness outcomes. Within this infographic, we illustrate key features of universal screening.
MTSS requires the use of data-based decision making to evaluate systems, match students to supports, and ensure effective implementation. This infographic summarizes the key pieces of data-based decision making.
A multi-level prevention system provides increasingly intense levels of instruction and support to address student need. Students may need more or less intensive levels of support across different subject areas and points in time. This infographic highlights the key features and differences among the tiers.
Tier 3 is individualized and intensive intervention designed to help students with severe and persistent academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral needs, including students with disabilities. It is a data-driven process characterized by increased intensity and individualization of supports. This infographic highlights eight essential features of Tier 3 and provides resources and information to learn more about Tier 3.
Sites implementing MTSS use different sources of data to answer a variety of questions. This infographics highlights four types of data and the specific questions teams can answer with each data type.
This infographic illustrates the major steps of MTSS implementation within schools. Each benchmark period, schools will screen all students to evaluate their level of risk and respond to that data to ensure each student receives the level of support they need. For students receiving targeted or intensive intervention, schools will conduct progress monitoring to evaluate the effectiveness of the level of support provided and determine if changes are needed. Critical to successful implementation is the fourth step, evaluating the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the process.
At Tier 2, schools provide small group, standardized academic, social, emotional, and behavioral supports using validated intervention programs. This infographic highlights 10 essential features of an effective Tier 2 intervention system.
This infographic illustrates the MTSS Center’s formula for successful implementation of MTSS. Implementation is more than just the design of a site’s components, as sites will want to consider the infrastructure needed to support that design. Further, sites will need to monitor their implementation progress to celebrate success and make course corrections. All these of these elements (design, infrastructure, implementation) are needed to ensure success with MTSS!