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NDMTSS: Training & Supports
By Jennifer Glasheen, NDMTSS Director
The North Dakota Multi-Tier System of Supports (NDMTSS) is a comprehensive framework designed to enhance the educational experience for both students and staff. Through targeted trainings, NDMTSS helps educators and school-based leadership teams to LEARN, EMPOWER, and GROW, ultimately leading to improved outcomes across the board. This article explores how NDMTSS trainings achieve these goals by focusing on the alterable variables of Instruction, Curriculum, and Environment, and the efficient and effective use of data to make informed decisions.
Learn more about how NDMTSS trainings help LEARN, EMPOWER, and GROW here!
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ND School Journey Stories | |
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Forty-one percent of Jamestown High School students reported their anxiety levels as “high” in the last school survey. Mental health challenges are a common trend across the nation with schools working to help students understand and process their emotions in healthy ways. According to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2013-2023, 29% of high schoolers experienced poor mental health in the previous 30 days. While emotions and behavior should be addressed all year round, Jamestown High School (JHS) counselors have noticed that the weeks leading up to winter break are typically packed with heightened emotion as final exams meet the holiday season. In response to this, the JHS Counseling Department recently hosted a Mindfulness Fair to introduce evidence-supported coping techniques.
Learn more about the JHS Mindfulness Fair here!
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Coaching Calls: Supporting the Work of MTSS Teams | |
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Within every NDMTSS Training series we have embedded virtual coaching calls to support school-based leadership teams with the following:
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Accountability: Periodic, scheduled check-ins with school teams provide encouragement and help the teams stay on track with action items and timely reminders.
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Barrier-Busting: Each coaching call poses the opportunity for schools to check-in on the barriers, hurdles, and gaps they are encountering. Barriers are those things that we have little or no hope of changing – we acknowledge those and let them go. Hurdles are identified as those things that we can problem-solve around – what can we alter, change, eliminate, add, redesign to get OVER this hurdle? Finally, we address the gaps – what additional information, training, support, ideas, or input would help us move our work forward? By addressing barriers, hurdles, and gaps we create clarity for our MTSS work.
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Empowerment: NDMTSS Coaches and Trainers help to support school-based teams with ideas, resources, and ongoing support, but we also provide the space for teams to share their progress and wonderings with each other which creates a sense of community and collective efficacy. Leadership teams are supported and can communicate back to school staff with ideas, next steps, and validation for the work being done. This can be very powerful.
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Personalization: Within our NDMTSS trainings we utilize feedback loops, intentional design, and data reviews to determine who needs what; for the coaching calls, this means ensuring that each team receives the feedback that they are seeking. Two different types of coaching calls are employed – Whole Group/Cohort Coaching Calls and Individual Coaching Calls to ensure personalized support of systemic processes.
As we move through the mid-point of the year, we are checking in with teams engaged in NDMTSS academic and behavior trainings, providing resources, ideas, and encouragement, gleaning our next steps for supports, and celebrating all of the good work being done! We are so impressed with the thoughtful, hard-working educators focused on improving outcomes for students in our schools! Keep up the great work!
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This month, we're highlighting the Effective Implementation page on our website. This page includes the active implementation formula, framework, and a summary. | |
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Emergency Sub Plans
Need a cover? CharacterStrong has you covered! Grab the Emergency Sub Plan for fun, effective, age-appropriate activities for every age group in English and Spanish. No matter what life throws at you, you’re covered!
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Ten Ways Schools Can Foster Belonging Among Students With and Without Disabilities
In this webinar, Dr. Erik Carter, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University, shares a powerful framework for reflecting upon and fostering belonging within our schools and classrooms.
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Stories from the Classroom: Appreciating High Expectations
In this video, Billy Pickens explains how his teacher’s high expectations for him were not always welcome in high school, but as an adult who is deaf-blind he now appreciates how important it was for his future.
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To help facilitate reflection and discussion using this video, explore the appreciating high expectations discussion guide or quick guide. The quick guide can be used if you have about 15 minutes to view the video and facilitate a discussion. The discussion guide can be used for a longer and more in-depth discussion. | |
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Specially Designed Services (SPED) Courses - ND Ed Hub
The ND Educational Hub has a catalog of free courses which go towards CEU hours. We encourage you to peruse the list of courses.
Course Highlights
Difference vs. Disability
It's all Related
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