Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Elementary Schools

<p>Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Elementary Schools is the leadership handbook and practitioner’s field guide to implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in elementary schools leading to improved student outcomes and school safety. Schools can creatively customize replicable best practices using this in-depth operations manual to guide MTSS teams in planning and delivering tiers of academic and integrated social-emotional and behavioral supports to meet the needs of all students. This text introduces <i>Healthy Minds Safe Schools</i> an evidence-based program that significantly improves student well-being school safety and teacher feelings of self-efficacy for delivering social-emotional and behavioral curriculum in the classroom.</p><p>Featuring team exercises and real perspectives from educators this text shows how to make incremental yet manageable changes at elementary schools in accordance with public policy mandates and evidence-based practices by developing smart teams and programs identifying roles and responsibilities implementing layers of academic support and services improving social-emotional and behavioral health of students and creating an inclusive school culture. It details organizational psychology and socially just educational practices and is a handbook aligned with the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center guidebook for preventing school violence and with the National Center for School Mental Health Curriculum.</p>