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Schools require tangible infrastructure such as buildings and materials like books, pencils, paper and technology. In addition, schools require intangible infrastructure such as a system of compensation for teachers, procedures that people reliably follow and norms for acceptable behavior. All of those critical but often invisible elements are infrastructure, or underlying structures that are necessary to have in place to be safe and get things done.
MTSS is a framework that organizes people around equitable and empirical decision-making regarding student academic, behavioral, social and emotional well-being. MTSS requires infrastructure beyond what is historically available in schools.
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Clear goals or mission.
District Policies and Procedures Require Implementation of MnMTSS Components and Subcomponents
Fidelity: The District MnMTSS Team Monitors and Improves Implementation
Leadership that prioritizes reaching these goals through coordination of resources and personnel based on known best practices and responses to student data.
District and School Leaders Facilitate Continuous System Improvement
District Leadership Supports School MnMTSS Team Implementation
School Leadership Supports Socially Just MnMTSS Implementation
Core staff beliefs concerning the power of finding the conditions that bring about student learning.
Core Beliefs about Students: Honor Their Background, Culture, and Abilities
Core Beliefs About Families & Communities: Honor Their Background, Culture, and Expertise
Core Beliefs about Effectiveness of Education: When Educators Work Together Toward Common Goals
Fidelity: Core Beliefs Promote Healthy Environments that Support Students from Diverse Backgrounds
Creating positive school climates in which students want to learn and teachers want to teach.
Engagement of Community in School Improvement
Data Are Used to Assess School Climate
Policies & Practices Support Positive School Climate
Instructional & Relational Management Strategies Are Practiced by All School Staff
Professional learning that builds and sustains effective practices that bring about flourishing students.
Evidence-Based & Aligned Professional Learning is Provided to Educators
Professional Learning is Evaluated
Fidelity: Quality and Impact of Professional Learning are Evaluated and Improved Upon
Teams of educators that have efficient and effective meetings that ultimately benefit student outcomes.
District, Building, and Grade/Content, Individual Student MnMTSS Teams Are Linked and Communicate Effectively
MnMTSS Teams Have Clear Roles and Follow Effective Process
(MnMTSS Team Guidebook)
Fidelity: Teams Evaluate Their Effectiveness and Find Ways to Improve Team Functioning
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