We are providing free access to ECATS because we want to deliver on the idea that MTSS is an efficient and effective school improvement framework. In order for this to happen, LEA and school teams deserve easy and effortless access to early warning system data with various built-in options for data display and reporting.

There are three main goals of ECATS MTSS:

1. Identify: Display an Early Warning System to proactively identify student status and needs
2. Intervene: Allow LEAs to group students by areas of need, review core instruction, and record/monitor intervention plans
3. Analyze: Provide insights on the effectiveness of interventions to assist districts and schools in resource allocation

It is imperative the districts and schools examine their Core Health. The data sources that most accurately allow teams to gauge the health of their core are student attendance rates, behavior, and academic achievement data.

In ECATS, the early warning indicators will show for individual students. They will “roll up” at the group, class, grade, school level. * This is NOT a new concept/behavior - same information that you have previously gathered will be gathered for you!

The early warning system in ECATS allows for effective problem solving around the whole school, grade levels, and sub-groups.

Problem-Solving Core Support

ECATS method: This is the method that will be used to problem solve around our Core Support.

**When we provide the right tool (ECATS) for teams to use as they examine and determine the health of their core, they will be able to respond and make informed decisions on how to best strengthen their core support by adjusting master schedules if needed, reallocate resources when necessary and potentially make adjustments to instruction, curriculum and the environment.

NC MTSS Livebinder

• ECATS Early Warning System
• Thresholds for EWS
• Intervention Planning Template