A Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) is a framework with a tiered infrastructure that uses data to help match academic and social-emotional behavior assessment and instructional resources to each and every student’s needs.

In Nebraska, MTSS is defined as an educational framework for continuous improvement, problem-solving and decision-making. It offers a meaningful and effective way to organize instruction and intervention to help improve outcomes for all students in the state.

In this tiered, data-informed framework, educators work to ensure that the majority of students respond to core instruction. Students who need additional supports for enrichment or remediation are identified by data and provided that support with the right focus and intensity.


WHAT IS MTSS?

  • Framework used to provide support to all learners

  • Promotes an integrated system of general education and special education

  • Provides early intervention for students who need support to reach their academic or behavioral goals

  • Uses high-quality, standards-based instruction and interventions backed by research

  • Addresses students’ academic, social-emotional and behavioral needs

  • Helps identify students who may need special education

MTSS ENCOMPASSES:

  • High-quality CORE classroom instruction meeting the needs of 80-85% of students without additional intervention

  • Response‐to‐intervention (RTI)

  • Positive behavioral interventions and support (PBIS)

  • Special education eligibility determination

MTSS EMPHASIZES:

  • Integrated academic, social-emotional and behavioral core instruction and supports

  • Early prevention and intervention

  • Capacity building for all educators

  • Examining systems-level data to identify variables that are producing current results