MTSS Message
August, 2020
Welcome Back : Same Goals - New Opportunities
MTSS in the Virtual Setting
1.Can virtual school students benefit from the three tiers of Georgia's MTSS?
- Yes. MTSS helps to ensure that students learning in a virtual environment have access to additional supports and individualized interventions, as needed. The multi-tiered system is characterized by a continuum of academic and behavior supports reflecting the need for students to have fluid access to instruction of varying intensity levels. While the nature of delivering these supports may look different in a virtual setting, a continuum of interventions should be used by virtual school educators to meet the needs of all their students and increase the effectiveness of virtual instruction and supports.
Teams of educators working collaboratively within the virtual setting – including the parents and students, if age-appropriate – engage in systematic planning and problem solving to ensure that student success is achieved and maintained. This systematic team process can occur effectively via web-based meetings using Google Hangout. The problem-solving process is critical to making the instructional adjustments needed for continual improvement in both student level of performance and rate of progress and is critical for assessing (through students’ responses) the effectiveness of the instruction/interventions provided. Throughout the continuum of instruction and intervention, problem solving is used to match instructional resources to educational need.
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CHILD FIND TIPS: RTI/MTSS, EVALUATIONS AND ELIGIBILITY CONSIDERATIONS
Coweta County Presentation, June 2020
“Child-find” under the law requires schools to properly locate, evaluate and determine eligibility for special education services. This information will provide tips for avoiding legal issues in the special education evaluation and eligibility process—from making appropriate and timely referrals for evaluations to conducting appropriate, full and individual evaluations and reevaluations to properly determining a student’s eligibility for special education services. The link below focuses on issues related to RTI.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aXbkQrxIvfXmB-KY0VHJb8d5EXyWNvdlWS5Z9HonqK4/edit?usp=sharing