Asheville City Schools
Excellence with Equity
- Asheville City Schools
- MTSS Supports Excellence with Equity for All
Multi-Tiered System of Support
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A Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) is a multi-tiered framework which promotes whole school improvement through engaging, research-based academic, social/emotional, and behavioral practices.
Asheville City Schools uses the Multi-Tiered System of Support framework to ensure students are engaged in relevant and rigorous learning in all content areas by:
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providing differentiated, standards-based core instruction for the growth of all students, including remediation, acceleration, and enrichment, guided by formative and summative student data
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providing students with appropriate tiers of targeted instruction and systems of support in addition to core instruction
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using student data, including progress monitoring, to make Personalized Educational Plans (PEPs) to ensure students make progress towards grade level expectations
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analyzing exceptional children’s data by coordinating with the EC department to implement proactive measures to appropriately serve all students
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collaborating in PLCs to turn data into useful and relevant information ensuring student growth and learning;
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ensuring all students have access to rigorous core curriculum rooted in grade-level or content standards
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developing lesson plans that provide clear learning objectives, foster higher order thinking, and align to current, research-based best practices;
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explicitly teaching students close reading strategies and writing with evidence across all content areas K-12
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supporting student discourse and questioning; and
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explicitly teaching and using common and consistent high-frequency and domain-specific academic vocabulary within and across grade levels
Adapted from ACS PreK-12 Instructional Frameworks
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