Integrating District and School Whole Child Efforts within MTSS
Your districts and schools have worked hard to build robust MTSS systems that focus on strong core instruction while addressing need of struggling learners. In your efforts to support the Whole Child, take the opportunity to build-in goals, structures, and strategies that support the Whole Child within a tired-system.
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Academic or Whole Child ... both/and???
To conceptualize the integration of Whole Child supports within MTSS, first consider the improvement process you already use for academics to assess needs, and how the addition of Whole Child efforts within your existing MTSS supports could compliment academic needs. Within your experiences with MTSS, you may have occasionally run into a situation where the academic supports provided have not been effective because in actuality, the root cause or issues around poor academic performance were in fact systemic non-academic Whole Child needs that were not being met.
To conceptualize the integration of Whole Child supports within MTSS, first consider the improvement process you already use for academics to assess needs, and how the addition of Whole Child efforts within your existing MTSS supports could compliment academic needs. Within your experiences with MTSS, you may have occasionally run into a situation where the academic supports provided have not been effective because in actuality, the root cause or issues around poor academic performance were in fact systemic non-academic Whole Child needs that were not being met.
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Looking at the graphic, including both Whole Child and MTSS supports within a needs assessments process can be complex. Within these efforts, there are many moving parts so it important to become informed before any actions are taken. To get started, you and members of your team can take this free course via EduPaths to learn how Whole Child supports can become an extension of a effective tired model. Additional Whole Child and School Improvment related courses will be added to EduPaths throughout the spring of 2020.
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