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 customise 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 behavioural supports to meet the needs of all students. This text introduces Healthy Minds, Safe Schools, an evidence-based program that significantly improves student well-being, school safety, and teacher feelings of self-efficacy for delivering social-emotional and behavioural curriculum in the classroom.
Key Features
- Team exercises and real perspectives from educators.
- Incremental yet manageable changes at elementary schools.
- Aligned with public policy mandates and evidence-based practices.
- Focus on developing smart teams and programs.
- Identifying roles and responsibilities.
- Improving social-emotional and behavioural health of students.
- Creating an inclusive school culture.
Additional Information
This text details organisational 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.
