MTSS Lead Weekly Updates

Quarter 2 begins today and we are equipped with multiple data points and instructional decisions have been made to support students intentionally each and every day. This quarter has always been a pivotal one that can yield great results or show incredible defeat academically for students. I encourage you to do the following.

1. Be consistent in data review (don't forget to review your iReady data as well as aimswebPlus data points), instructional planning, feedback, and documentation, but most importantly in the required time for Tier 2 and Tier 3 instruction to allow students time to acquire what is being presented.

2. Be communicative to other teachers, leaders, parents, and most importantly in your feedback to students. This can go a long way in helping everyone be on the same page from the start.

3. Be correct in what is being taught. Use videos to support your own knowledge base and ask others who do know if you do not. Our Tier 1 curricular resources offer videos for sound production and math problem solving for example. It's okay not to know, but not okay to not seek support to get it right for students.

1. As many as one in five people are Dyslexic.

2. Dyslexia is genetic, so it runs in families.

3. Dyslexic brains are 'wired' slightly differently, meaning they have a different way of processing information.

4. This difference results in a pattern of strengths like critical thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence, and communication skills.

5. It also results in challenges affecting traditional learning such as reading, writing, spelling, rote learning, memory and concentration.

6. Each dyslexic will have a different pattern of strengths and challenges.

7. Identification is key to our success in education and employment as well as our self-esteem.

8. If we place equal importance on Dyslexic Strengths and Challenges, we can and will go far.

9. Four in five successful dyslexics attribute Dyslexic Thinking to their success.

10. Research tells us that Dyslexic Thinking skills are vital for the future.

Taken from THIS is Dyslexia by Kate Griggs

Please sign up for these sessions if you have not previously attended prior sessions as this is the BEST SUPPORT for our platforms we use to manage RTI2A.

MSCS Office Hours will be available this week and were actively used in week one of October. Please complete the form linked below to request Office Hours Support. Support sessions will be scheduled with those who have common support requests. For example, I would not group aimswebPlus Progress Monitoring with the group who requested support with ILP-Ds.

Links to join will be sent out on Tuesday morning by 8:30 a.m. each week so submissions after 7:30 a.m. Tuesday will be addressed the next week.