Building Thriving School Communities Focused on Wellness and Equity by Leveraging MTSS [Hardcover]

Schools across the nation are moving towards implementation of Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), which can be complicated to implement well. This user-friendly handbook aims to provide school and district leaders the tools to effectively implement MTSS. Leaders will understand what their unique role is in leading MTSS implementation.Lori Lynass, Ed.D.,Bridget Walker, Ph.D., andErika McDowell, Ed.D. have over 70 years of collective wisdom in education. They have worked with over 2,000 schools in their implementation of MTSS.

Lynass, Walker & McDowell offer one of the most comprehensive texts to demonstrate the power of Multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) in post-2020 education. The concepts described throughout the text offer educational leaders the opportunity to take the many initiatives, pressures, and passions they face and find ways to make them aligned, sustainable and culturally responsive. Highlighting the ways that practices connected to social-emotional learning, restorative justice, academics, and mental health can be provided in an equitable framework,Building Thriving School Communities Focused on Wellness and Equity by Leveraging MTSSserves as acookbookfor creating climates of belonging and success for every learner. Nicole Hollins-Sims, author of Creating Equitable Practices in PBIS

Building Thriving School Communities Focused on Wellness and Equity by Leveraging MTSSbrings a much-needed framework into clarity for school leaders. Adopting multiple programs, that may not fit together, or may compete for critical resources, is an inefficient, and often inequitable model for supporting wellness and growing equity of opportunity and success. Drs. Lynass, Walker, and McDowell build off other important MTSS resources in this new go to handbook on leveraging MTSS to create thriving, equitable school communities. Jessica Swain-Bradway, executive director, Northwest PBIS Network

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