The Integrated Academic and Behavior Systems (IABS) Division at North Carolina Department of Public Instruction supports the implementation and sustainability of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). MTSS is a multi-tiered framework which promotes school improvement through engaging, research-based academic and behavioral practices. NC MTSS employs a systems approach using data-driven problem solving to maximize growth for all. The agency’s vision for MTSS is that every North Carolina pre-kindergarten-12th grade public education system implements and sustains all components of a Multi-Tiered System of Support to ensure college, career and community readiness for all students.

The Alamance-Burlington School System aligns its behavior structures to that of the IABS Division. School cohorts receive training on proper implementation and sustainability of these structures.

ATTENDANCE AND MTSS

School attendance includes whole school days, tardies, and early dismissals. In order to build an efficient and effective intervention system for attendance, universal attendance strategies and practices based on research should be utilized.

Please note in February 2018, the North Carolina State Board of Education defined Chronic Student Absenteeism. In that definition, a “student chronic absentee” is defined as a student who “is enrolled in a North Carolina public school for at least 10 school days at any time during the school year, and whose total number of absences – excused or unexcused – is equal to or greater than 10 percent of the total number of days that such student has been enrolled at such school during such school year.”