Huerfano RE-1 believes in providing students with a strong foundation of safe, inclusive learning environments, supporting strong assessment practices, and creating clear processes for instruction and layered interventions that meet students where they are and move them forward.

Through this layered approach, our goal is to personalize learning and emotional support for all students. 

MTSS

Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a prevention-based framework using team-driven leadership and data-based problem-solving to improve the outcomes of every student through family, school, and community partnerships, comprehensive assessment, and a layered continuum of supports.

Implementation science and universal learning design are employed to create one integrated system that focuses on increasing academic and behavioral outcomes to equitably support the varying needs of all students.

What is PBIS?

PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and is a part of a school’s Multi-Tiered System of Support for Students. Through PBIS, schools set clear behavior expectations that are positively taught and reinforced across the school– classrooms, hallways, the playground, and cafeteria. Students who need more support in meeting these expectations might be given more specific directions or more time to practice the skills needed to maintain safe, effective school environments that maximize learning.

What are Interventions?

When a student or group of students need something more in order to thrive, they may receive an intervention. An intervention is an instruction beyond what’s typically part of regular teaching. It is designed to target a specific need, often small groups or individuals. Sometimes the intervention happens in the classroom with the student’s teacher and sometimes it is with an interventionist in a different classroom. In middle and high school, students might be part of a special course to address their individual needs. These interventions are not special education services.

 An intervention may take a few weeks or a few years, depending on the student’s need. Data is collected regularly to make sure the intervention is working as planned –or adjusted if needed. 

How Can Families Get Involved?

Family, school, and community partnering is one of the five components of MTSS.  This means that everyone has a role in the process.  School-based teams work together to support student learning at home, at school, and in the community.  Ask your school how to join the work of the MTSS!

How Can I (parent/guardian) be informed of my student's progress?

As school-based teams meet and plan interventions or progress monitoring for students, they include educators and families in the process.  Information may come in the form of informal communication, meetings, conferences, or email.  You may be invited to be part of a collaborative Student Support Team meeting for your child, where you will be asked to contribute to a plan for supporting your student. 

What Can We Do At Home?

Here are a few ways families can support what their student is doing in school:

• Get your student to school on time, ready to learn – daily!
• Make reading an everyday habit at home
• Communicate with your student’s teacher
• Monitor and assist with homework assignments
• Monitor student grades
• Review progress monitoring data
• Share your student’s successes
• Help your student set personal goals
• Help your student understand how to persevere through the tough parts of school
• Learn more about the curricula and interventions being used in your student’s school
• Attend parent/teacher conferences and other school meetings about your student