System Information

Multi-Tiered, Multi Domain System of Supports (Delivery of Services Model) for School Counselors
The Multi- Tiered System of Support (MTSS) focuses on the academic and behavioral needs of students within the educational system. School counselors work in three domains which include academic, college/career, and social/emotional. A framework for the delivery for school counseling instruction and services that integrates well within MTSS was developed by Dr. Trish Hatch and called The Multi-Tiered, Multi Domain System of Supports (MTMDSS). MTMDSS provides tiered levels of school counseling instruction and intervention services addressing students’ needs in the areas of academics, college/career, and social/emotional development. MTMDSS can further be explained in Dr. Hatch’s draw video which is hyperlinked below as well as a planning guide handout and the elementary and secondary MTMDSS models provided by Hatching Results, LLC. Note, Hatching Results, LLC has been identified by Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) and by CDE to be the lead in providing professional development for the Role of the School Counselor in MTSS. Interested parties can locate more information on MTSS and MTMDSS on the OCDE website.

The following examples of MTMDSS Delivery Models were provided by Hatching Results, LLC

MTMDSS HS Example.pdf

MTMDSS Elementary Example.pptx

Principal/School Counselor Relationship

Finding A Way: How an Effective Principal/School Counselor Relationship Can Lead to Success for All Students
School counselors have relationships with all stakeholders therefore administrators are encouraged to include school counselors on site and district leadership teams. Crucial to the development of the whole child and in building a college going culture, school counselors must be welcomed to students’ classrooms in order to deliver their evidence-based national standards and data driven curriculum. In the study “Finding A Way” by the National Association of Secondary Principals (NASSP), American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and CollegeBoard, principals and school counselors were in agreement of three broad areas being critical for the development of an effective principal-counselor relationship:

California Student Aid Commission (CSAC)

School counselors are encouraged to obtain a Webgrants Administrators account within CSAC in order to access valuable reports including:

Individual student names and their status regarding FAFSA completion
Individual student names receiving a Cal Grant
Individual student names that need to be “matched” within the CSAC system in order to receive aid

National Student Clearinghouse

StudentTracker^® for High Schools is a unique program designed to help high schools and school districts more accurately gauge the college success of their graduates by answering such key questions as:

How many of our high school graduates enroll in college?
Do they persist and graduate from college?
How long does it take for them to get their degrees?
Do they go in or out of state for college?
Do they attend a two- or four-year school?
Which colleges do they most commonly attend?

Aeries CCI Student Summary Page

Aeries Student CCI Student Summary Page
Aeries Instructions for Activating Student CCI Summary Page

Aeries Analytics Dashboards

Aeries Analytics™ provides for an unlimited number of customizable and dynamic dashboards with drill-capabilities to be created and quickly shared. From report tables and graphs, users can easily click on anything (bar line, pie piece, percentage, etc.) to see a list of those students who meet any criteria you choose. These drill-down capabilities allow for looking at what is going on with any imaginable sub-group of students or individuals — basically equipping you with insights to understand patterns and maybe understand why students are scoring poorly or not showing up for school.

Reach Higher Shasta Aeries Analytic Dashboards

Students completing 4 years of math
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completions
ACT & SAT test taking numbers
Advanced Placement Enrollment
Concurrent Education (college credits earned via online or on the college campus)
Dual Enrollment (college credits earned from a course taught on the high school campus)
California State University (CSU) Admission Requirements (a-g)
University of California (UC) Admission Requirements (a-g)

California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI)

CCGI partners with K-12 school districts to support students, counselors, parents, and community-based organizations with technological tools that help guide the college and career planning and preparation process. The same technological platform houses, audits and transmits student data to help ensure more accurate and efficient decisions regarding admissions, financial aid and course placement.

Using Analytics to Focus on 8th-9th Grade Transition

Shasta County’s educational leaders formed a community of practice for secondary school schools that includes superintendents, principals, and school counselors to study the transition from 8th to 9th grade. The collaborative developed identical Analytic Dashboards in order to have dialogue with the same data sets that include the following elements:

Attendance with bands in accordance to mandatory SARB communications to families
Gradebooks by department
Behavior with bands in accordance to the district’s discipline matrix
GPA by most recent quarter and disaggregated by ≤ 1.9 ≤ 2.9 ≤ 3.49 ≤ 4.0

Annual Reflection of Data to Identify Core Curriculum Needs & Systemic Change Ideas

Focusing on All Student Groups

Elementary & Middle Schools:

Promotion rates by student group, gender, First Generation
CA Dashboard Indicators
CA Healthy Kids Survey
Family Engagement Surveys
Standardized Test Scores (PSAT 8/9 & CAASPP)

High School:

CA Dashboard: CCI specially looking at Approaching Prepared disaggregated data
CA Dashboard: Graduation
CDE DataQuest: A-G Rate, College Going Rate
EAP scores
CA Healthy Kids Survey
FAFSA completion rates
Number of Cal Grant Awards
Percent of seniors graduating with a confirmed post-secondary plan
Course enrollment patterns for all student groups, including gender and First Generation
Senior Exit Survey
National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data to determine college enrollment patterns and persistency
Summer Melt meaning the difference between the number of students reporting on the Senior Exit Survey they were going to college and the number that did actually enroll according to NSC
Family Engagement Surveys

School Counselors and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

MTSS supports the Universal Design for Learning framework in order to engage all learners by removing barriers to the curriculum, providing relevance to curriculum, and developing expert learners by affording students multiple opportunities to express their learning. Teachers across the state as well as the nation are learning about the UDL framework as a Tier 1 teaching strategy. School counselors are encouraged to seek professional development in UDL in order to support teachers with a need to enhance their lesson plans by making them more equitable as well as to increase engagement. Professional development in UDL will also support school counselors as they hone their teaching skills and strengthen Tier 1 Core Curriculum lessons.

UDL for School Counselors

Exemplars

San Jacinto 4 website.ppt

216 CSBA Golden Bell Award Winner:
San Jacinto High School Counseling Department

RHS FINAL ASCA Webinar 42020.pptx

2019 CSBA Golden Bell Award Winner:
Reach Higher Shasta School Counseling Initiative

Copy of Updated Final RHS MTMDSS.pdf

Central Valley High School in Shasta County

Achieve is a data driven intervention program targeted to increase academic success and college/career readiness skills. The interventions are designed by the Falcon faculty after reviewing data and student voice feedback.

Riverside County Office of Education Collaborative

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