MTSS Module 4

It’s a natural human quality that people can identify problems or potential reasons for those problems. However, research on what effective problem solvers are able to do differently tells us that assumptions needed to be tested. The human perception is strongly tied to emotional health and status, thus human perception can change even when circumstances have not. We also can find in the research literature support that school child-study teams often build plans based on unverified assumptions that can yield to a plan having no impact, and as a result the child is suspected of having a more severe problem when perhaps the intervention was simply not matched to need (i.e., based on faulty assumptions). In this module, teams are instructed on how to help educators develop fluency of understanding the relationship between students’ academic achievements and their social-behavioral, or emotional competencies, or their health and wellbeing. From this integrated, whole-child lens, teams are taught how to collect and analyze data to verify specific barriers that are causing a given problem, and then use that information to begin brainstorming solutions for developing further in the next module.

Objectives:

Learn how to comprehensively plan for Tier 1 (school improvement) and implement actions
Learn various strategies for improving Tier 1
Learn to develop fidelity measurement procedures aligned to conditions
Learn PS Step 3 (Plan Dev & Implementation)

Time Required: 4.5 hours

The Sacramento City Unified School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, parental, family or marital status, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

Options for Seriously Ill or Hospitalized Students

Students who are unable to attend school due to serious injury or illness for a period of three weeks or more may be provided home instruction. The student’s condition must be verified by a physician. Students with mental health conditions must present authorization from a physician and a treatment plan from their doctor. A student with a temporary physical, mental or emotional disability who is hospitalized or receiving care in a residential health facility, excluding state hospitals, for a determined amount of time may receive a plan from their therapist. A student with a temporary physical, mental or emotional disability who is hospitalized or receiving care in a residential health facility, excluding state hospitals, may receive individual instruction from the school district in which the facility is located. The family is responsible for notifying the school district about the student’s need for educational services. Contact our district’s Home-Hospital Liaison Nicole Castles at (916) 826-4379 to obtain information about eligibility and educational options. (EC § 48206.3-48208)