Building Mindfulness in Jamestown

Building Mindfulness in Jamestown Forty-one percent of Jamestown High School students reported their anxiety levels as “high” in their last school survey. Mental health challenges are a common trend across the nation with schools working to help students understand and process their emotions in healthy ways. According to the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data […]

NDMTSS: Training & Supports

NDMTSS: Training & Supports The North Dakota Multi-Tier System of Supports (NDMTSS) is a comprehensive framework designed to enhance the educational experience for both students and staff. Through targeted trainings, NDMTSS helps educators and school-based leadership teams to LEARN, EMPOWER, and GROW, ultimately leading to improved outcomes across the board. This article explores how NDMTSS trainings achieve these […]

If MTSS Is Everything, Where Do We Start?

IF NDMTSS IS EVERYTHING, WHERE DO WE START? North Dakota’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (NDMTSS) is a framework designed through the lens of continuous improvement to guide school districts, schools, and all educators to ensure each and every student has access to learning experiences that enhance their educational outcomes. Our mission is to empower schools […]

Supporting Secondary Struggling Readers – Fall Cohort​

Supporting Secondary Struggling Readers – Fall Cohort 54 educators from 14 districts attended two days of learning how to assist struggling readers at the secondary level through curriculum, instruction, and assessment. This two-day training (Oct. 4 and Nov. 8) was attended by 54 secondary educators learning to assist struggling readers at the secondary level through […]

Nearly 200 K-5 educators across the state working to obtain the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to address student reading needs

Nearly 200 K-5 educators across the state working to obtain the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to address student reading needs We are thrilled to see the outpouring of support for the Foundations of Reading Instruction & Intervention training series designed for K-5 educators around the Five Big Areas of Reading and the Science of Reading in the […]

3 Districts, 24 educators complete Leading Implementation of Systemic Social Emotional

3 Districts, 24 educators complete Leading Implementation of Systemic Social Emotional In October of 2021, three teams (24 individuals) from Flasher, Midway, and Zeeland made the commitment as a leadership team to work towards creating the conditions for optimizing social-emotional learning (SEL) through the application of the ND Multi-Tier System of Supports (NDMTSS) Essential Components […]

21-22 Developing Pathways for Academics Kick-off with 17 teams, 137 educators!

21-22 Developing Pathways for Academics Kick-off with 17 teams, 137 educators! Developing Pathways for Academics Kicks of 21-22 Cohort with 17 school teams, 137 individual educators! Throughout the Developing Pathways for Academics professional learning teams will utilize the NDMTSS Essential Components to solve problems at the school, classroom, and student level. Emphasis will be given to translating current […]

Foundations of Reading Fall Cohort Wraps Up

Foundations of Reading Fall Cohort Wraps Up Across six regional education associations, 13 school districts, and 14 individual buildings, nearly 40 educators invested in the NDMTSS Foundations of Reading series, aligned with the Science of Reading, to gain the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to address a variety of students’ needs in reading. [Note: Register for the […]