Essential Components
North Dakota’s Multi-Tier System of Supports (NDMTSS) is a framework to provide all students with the best opportunities to succeed academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally in school. NDMTSS focuses on providing high-quality instruction and interventions matched to student need, monitoring progress frequently to make decisions about changes in instruction or goals. Data are used to allocate resources to improve student learning and support staff implementation of effective practices.
Assessment
The process of collecting, reviewing, and using the information to make educational decisions about student learning.
Data-Based
Decision Making
Optimizes the use of data for purposes of informing individual student instruction, identifying strengths and weaknesses in a classroom, and illuminating trends and gaps across a school district.
Multi-Tiered
Instruction
A multi-tier approach is used to efficiently differentiate instruction for all students.
Infrastructure &
Support Mechanisms
Knowledge, resources, and organizational structures necessary to operationalize components of NDMTSS in a unified system to meet established goals.
Fidelity &
Evaluation
Fidelity and evaluation are interrelated and complementary processes that support the implementation of MTSS.
