Chris Loiselle, Director of Quality Assurance for Success Virtual Learning Centers and Berrien Springs Public Schools, is an MTSS expert and presented this process at the Digital Learning Annual Conference in Atlanta, in February 2022. Chris was instrumental in helping us develop Pulse and continues to utilize Pulse at Success and Berrien Springs, including in his MTSS process.
For many K-12 schools, MTSS, or Multi-Tiered System of Supports, is a critical part of developing a student-centered support model. In a virtual environment a well planned MTSS operating structure becomes even more important. That’s because virtual learners do not benefit from the ‘captive audience’ benefit of a traditional seated program.
The heart of an MTSS system is the quality of support options your school has chosen to use in it. Those support options become a central part of a school’s operating practices and therefore must be carefully considered in order to maximize student outcomes.
Once you’ve identified the areas of greatest need, it’s time to begin developing your support detail. This first involves sharing the results of your staff and student research with your colleagues and beginning the discussion of identifying adult actions (supports) that can be implemented to remove barriers and adequately support students.
Now it’s time to begin the process of creating an MTSS Handbook. Before you move to staff training, you must have available a helpful guide for staff to refer to as they begin implementing your MTSS model. There are many benefits to creating such a tool…
Once you’ve taken the time to develop your MTSS Handbook, you are ready to plan staff training. There’s an important first step in the training process however — creating buy-in!
If you are an Educator, you have had several hours of school-provided professional development (PD). You know that some PD can be wonderful, and some can be horrendous. You’ve probably started to identify some of the critical characteristics of good PD, and we have also…
Now that staff members had been introduced to MTSS and the process of creating a student support plan, the next step was to begin the use of a tool to document and track the support planning effort.
This school utilizes Pulse as their primary student tracking tool. There are several benefits to using this tool that will not be covered in this blog, but the greatest reason it made sense for the school to transition to the use of the Pulse Student Support tool was because Pulse is capable of centrally tracking all engagement data in one area.
Since 2011 Chris Loiselle has worked as building administrator, CFO, and Chief Strategic Officer for Success Virtual Learning Centers and Berrien Springs Public Schools, where he is currently filling the Director of Quality Assurance role. While working at Success, Chris was instrumental in the development of the Pulse student support software. His passion is working in K-12 managing e-learning centers and building software to help improve virtual learning outcomes.
Chris first presented this 7-step process for effective MTSS at the Digital Learning Annual Conference in Atlanta, in February 2022.
His goal is to be able to help people prosper and succeed in today’s challenging educational environment.
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