Building an RTI/MTSS System for Mental-Health: Guidance for School Teams

Jim Wright is presenting a 3-session workshop series (W16 January, Th 28 February, Th 14 March 2019) for Easten Suffolk BOCES: Building an RTI/MTSS System for Mental-Health:Guidance for School Teams.

Session 1 (16 January 2019): RTI/MTSS for Behavior: Master the Model

Here are online resources from our first session:

• Session 1:PowerPoint: RTI/MTSS for Behavior: Master the Model (PDF Document)
• Session 1: Main Handout
• Session 1: Supplemental Handout
• Session 1: RTI/MTSS for Behavior: District-Wide Planning Tool (Shareable Google Doc)
• Session 1: NYS Social-Emotional Learning Benchmarks
  
• Session 1: Tier 1/Classroom Intervention Planning Sheet (Google Docs)

Optional 'Homework':Assignments:

1. Sketch Out Your RTI/MTSS-Behavior Plan. 
   -RTI/MTSS for Behavior: District-Wide Planning Tool 
2. Conduct Your Own Behavior Needs Assessment:
   -School/District Behavioral Needs Assessment: PowerPoint
   -School/District Behavioral Needs Assessment: Handout
3. Assess & Promote a Positive Belief System Among Staff.
   -Belief About Behavior Survey-4th Edition (D. Browning Wright)
   -Big Ideas in Behavior Management: PowerPoint
   -Big Ideas in Behaivor Management: Handout
4. Define Expectations for Classroom Behavior Interventions.
   -What Are Your Expectations of the Teacher as Behavior-Management ‘First Responder’?
5. Map Your School Programs/Practices that Support SEL. 
   -NYS Social-Emotional Learning Benchmarks

Session 2 (28 February 2019): RTI/MTSS for Behavior: Write Classroom Support Plans

Here are online resources from our second session:

• Session 2: PowerPoint: RTI/MTSS for Behavior:  Write Classroom Support Plans (PDF Document)
• Session 2: Main Handout
• Session 2: Functional Behavioral Thinking Handout
• Session 2: Homework ideas

• FBT: Behavior Analysis: Step-by-Step Guide
• FBT: Behavior Analysis Form (Interactive)
• FBT: Behavior Intervention Planning Form (Interactive)

Session 3 (14 March 2019): RTI/MTSS for Behavior: Follow the Data

Here are online resources from our final session:

• Session 3: PowerPoint: RTI/MTSS for Behavior: Follow the Data (PDF Document)
• Session 3: Main Handout
• Session 3: Supplemental Handout

TIer 2: Range of Programs/Services

• Behavior Education Program/Check In-Check Out
  -Responding to Problem Behaviors in Schools: The Behavior Education Program is an excellent manual written by the BEP/CICO program creators and available through booksellers (ISBN-13: 978-1606236000).

• Mentoring
  -The National Mentoring Resource Center: https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org/index.php. This website, sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), contains links to resources for setting up peer and adult mentoring programs.

  -Read an impact study of student mentoring: Impact Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Mentoring Program: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094047/pdf/20094047.pdf

• Solution-Focused Brief Counseling
  -An article (Jones et al., 2009) that provides a helpful introduction to SFBC can be found at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ878370.pdf
  

• Social Skills Training
  -NASP Social Skills Page: http://www.naspcenter.org/factsheets/socialskills_fs.html. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) provides a useful overview of social-skills training in schools.

• Behavior Contracts
  -View Behavior Contract description and example
  -National Education Association: Behavior Contracts: How to Write Them
  http://www.nea.org/tools/behavior-contracts-how-to-write-them.htm
  -National Center on Intensive Intervention: Behavior Contracts:
  https://intensiveintervention.org/sites/default/files/Behavior_Contracts...

Data Collection 'Toolkit':for Monitoring Tier 1-3 Behaviors:

1. Behavior Report Cards Handout/Behavior Report Card Online App
2. Checklists Handout/Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker Online App
3. Behavior Frequency Count Handout
4. Momentary Time Sampling:: Attention Handout
5. Behavior Log & Scatterplot Handout
6. Monitoring Adult Prompts Handout

National Center on Intensive Intervention

• Tools Chart: School-Wide Behavior Screening
• Tools Chart: Progress-Monitoring

MTSS-B: Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

• New York State Education Dept: SEL Benchmarks and Guidance Document

• US Department of Education: A review of the literature on social and emotional learning for students ages 3–8: Characteristics of effective social and emotional learning programs

• CASEL Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs: Pre-K-Elementary
• CASEL: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs: Middle and High School