Recommended Summer Reading

Untangling Data-based Decision Making: A Problem-Solving Model to Enhance MTSS | By: Jason E. Harlacher, Jon Potter, Adam Collins

Description: Learn how to use a problem-solving model to easily make sense of student data, enabling teams to effectively drive instruction and plan appropriate responses within a multitiered system of supports (MTSS). 

A practical tool to help you make sense of student data for effective use in MTSS, this book offers knowledge, strategies, and tools that will help you use data effectively. Applicable to any content area, the four simple steps in this book’s problem-solving model include specific questions that will guide your use of data to identify and solve problems that stand in the way of student achievement. Learn how to change instruction, curriculum, and environment to better support students.

K–12 educators and leaders will:

• Understand the proper application of data-based decision making
• Successfully utilize data to improve student learning
• Use worksheets and tools to organize data team meetings
• Become data rich and information rich
• Develop an MTSS within their school or district)\

 

NDMTSS Connection: This resource has been a game-changer for having data conversations with NDMTSS teams this year. Organizing and analyzing data at the system, building, grade-level, and student level and the effective use of teams to determine how to make changes toward improvement by considering the alterable variables that we have control over – instruction, curriculum, and environment!