Leading Equity-Based MTSS for All Students

by Amy McCart, Dawn Dee Miller

Ensure that Every Child Achieves Academic and Social Success  An equity-based multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) helps school teams engage all students across the full range of learning needs. MTSS ensures that the vision of equity for every student is achieved, with high expectations and quality instruction, while not straining a school’s budget or personnel.  Amy McCart and Dawn Miller seek to transform education so that it benefits educators, students, their families, and ultimately the communities in which they live. The authors do this by providing tools and methods to implement equity-based MTSS to improve academic, behavior and social outcomes for all students. This strategy-filled book teaches you how to • Engage all students in learning through an equity-based approach  • Analyze and utilize your resources • Apply strengths- and evidence-based principles for implementation • Incorporate effective tools to systematize MTSS Authentic examples across multiple grade levels and subjects contextualize the proven method presented in this book. The authors draw on their experience as SWIFT Education Center professional developers to guide you into creating an MTSS tailored to be effective for your student body. 

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

166 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2019

Reviews

[Olivia Retton · Rating 1 out of 5]

I “had” to read this for work. The content in this is okay though I believe it’s nothing earth shattering and something that could be a website article.
The writing, however, I found to be super gimmicky and all over the place. Like explaining point A to point B, they went through the whole alphabet and circled back to get there. Redundant.

[Jill McCracken · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leading Equity-Based MTSS for All Students by Amy McCart and Dawn Miller is a resource for a course I took this semester for continuing education hours for my teaching license recertification. I found several things in this book that made it extremely valuable as an educator. First, the authors are very clear on why MTSS and equity must be integrated to achieve results for all students. They present clear evidence that is intended to assist leadership teams in doing focused, strategic work to implement this process effectively. Another valuable element of the book is that it could be used as a resource for educational or MTSS leaders to use as a guide for implementation. They offer clear, concrete steps for framing a professional learning community to examine research, establish a shared vision, plan strategic implementation, and — most importantly — continuously adapt for sustainability. Finally, this book addresses how current MTSS models are deficit-based and built on a construct of disabilities. The authors suggest that educators should consider how to meet the needs of ALL students from the ground up. Instead of pulling drowning kids out of the river, let’s go upstream and find out why they’re getting into the river in the first place. It’s daunting work, but such good work! As a textbook, I give this one 3.5 teachers: 👩🏼‍🏫🧑🏻‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫.5

[Terry Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very helpful book to guide schools through truly effective MTSS work and it’s equity focus can be bolstered through a deeper dive and understanding of racial equity. I think it offers a lot for secondary sites, which some MTSS texts fail to do, but it still leaves questions. I think it could have centered student voice more in the process but pairing this with something like Street Data can help shore up what a team considers and prioritizes as data. Looking at Ishimaru’s work on family engagement and co-constructing meaning of data would also benefit teams.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this school and felt like it had so much amazing information, however, I felt like I struggled a bit with where to find certain information/the organization of it. Highly recommend despite that!

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book felt a bit disorganized at times, but I loved all of the concrete examples & forms that were provided as teams begin to navigate the unknown waters of MTSS. Overall a solid book for understanding MTSS basics.

[Briana · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this book has strong ideas for how to set up an MTSS system and team, it felt a little lean on the equity part. Would have liked more specific examples of how teams disaggregated data to support equity work, particularly drawing from diverse, low socioeconomic urban schools with limited experience in providing interventions. Does make a good case for why MTSS systems do promote equity.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and helpful. Some of the website links from the publisher are wrong. Otherwise the book is very useful.