Collaborative Problem Solving
The manner in which we work together to solve a problem based on data!
The first step in developing a strong MTSS decision-making component is creating a school-based team that will meet regularly to identify, analyze, and resolve student concerns through all tiers of support.
These teams should analyze the data to determine: (Collaborative Improvement from MTSS Reading Improvement)
What is the gap between actual and desired outcomes?
Which systems and students need support?
Why is the gap happening?
What is the plan?
Is the plan working?
Did the plan work?
After your team is established, meeting regularly to review the data is needed to ensure we are making the best decisions for all students.
Data is analyzed from screening data, diagnostic data, and progress monitoring data to determine how the team will problem solve at the individual, and whole school level. This information will enable teams to identify the gaps, define how to fix them, implement a plan, and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan.
Here is a Intervention Meeting Facilitator's Guide to help with structure your collaborative problem solving meetings.
SC MTSS Guiding Documents for Problem Solving
The RIOT (Review, Interview, Observe, and Test and ICEL Matrix (Instruction, Curriculum, Environment, and Learner)
When reviewing data and discovering that students are not 80% in meeting benchmarks, then the school's collaborative problem solving team should decide if it's the instruction, curriculum, environment or the learner impacting the overall performance.
Additional Documents