Defining MTSS an Interview with Stephanie Stollar

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All About Dr. Stollar:

Former Vice President for Professional Learning at Acadience Learning Inc.
Part-time assistant professor in the online Reading Science Program at Mount St. Joseph University.
Founding member of a national alliance for supporting reading science in higher education.
Support educators to learn about and implement the science of reading.
Consults and helps other teacher programs to align programs to reading research.
Has an online membership community called The Reading Science Academy where she supports educators to learn about the science of reading and implement it in their various educational roles.

What does MTSS stand for?

MTSS:

…stands for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support.
…is first and foremost a framework for putting into place things that we know about reading research.
…uses data to make decisions that allow schools to eliminate barriers to student reading success.

For example, we know that reading problems can be prevented for the vast majority of students primarily through the way we teach reading for the first time in the classroom. Research also tells us there are effective ways to intervene for the students who have difficulty with reading.

…is all about making decisions as a team at a variety of levels within schools (district, school, grade) that will allow the educational system to get all students reading. Everyone can become a reader, but they're not going to do so with the same type or amount of instruction.
…is made up of three tiers: Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. These are tiers of instruction and intervention.
…is set up to be a continuum of instructional supports that are available to every student from day one of kindergarten. It's the school's job to get the system of supports in place. Each school will have its own way of doing this - think of these tiers as customized to the needs of the school community, its students, and its resources.
…and the science of reading aren't separate - they're joined together. They are not separate initiatives. Let's think about MTSS as the delivery system for what's in the reading research.
..is a model where each and every student is considered (from accelerated to struggling).

Check Out Dr. Stollar:

Website: https://www.readingscienceacademy.com/
- https://www.readingscienceacademy.com/#section-1591199462991