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Needs Assessment guide (PDF, 15 pages)

1. Step 1: Our data Guide, page 5

2. Step 2: Rate the needs Guide, page 7

3. Step 3: Disagreement Guide, page 8

4. Step 4: Heat map Guide, page 9

5. Step 5: Priorities Guide, page 11

6. Step 6: Summary Guide, page 13

Root Cause guide (PDF, 11 pages)

1. Step 1: Problem Guide, page 3

2. Step 2: Fishbone Guide, page 4

3. Step 3: Five whys Guide, page 7

4. Step 4: Evidence Guide, page 8

5. Step 5: Confirm Guide, page 9

6. Step 6: Summary Guide, page 10

Evidence-Based Interventions guide (PDF, 9 pages)

1. Step 1: Your school and domains Guide, page 3

2. Step 2: Find interventions Guide, page 4

3. Step 3: Check the evidence Guide, page 5

4. Step 4: Build your response Guide, page 6

5. Step 5: Checks Guide, page 7

6. Step 6: Summary Guide, page 8

Plan Builder guide (PDF, 10 pages)

1. Step 1: Your school and plan Guide, page 3

2. Step 2: MICIP Goals and MI School Index Target(s) Guide, page 4

3. Step 3: Progress Reporting Guide, page 6

4. Step 4: Year 1 Budget Proposal Guide, page 7

5. Step 5: Checks Guide, page 8

6. Step 6: Summary Guide, page 9

Short talks to watch before you open each tool. Each one explains the thinking behind the steps.

Why multi-tiered systems of support so often fall short in middle and high schools, how secondary MTSS differs from elementary, and how to check whether your own system is doing what it was built to do.

1. What we know about why multi-tiered systems of support break down, especially in middle and high schools.

2. How MTSS at the secondary level shares the elementary model's foundations and where it has to work differently.

3. Actions school leaders can take to check whether their current MTSS is actually reaching its goals.

Short modules on what counts as evidence and how to choose an intervention that fits your students, your setting, and your goals. Each has a video, a one-page handout and a team activity built to help you select interventions and document them for your IPG application; by the last module your team has a draft of the EBI section of your plan.

1. Module 1: What makes an intervention evidence-based
2. Module 2: Reading the evidence label
3. Module 3: How strong is the evidence, and what can you claim
4. Module 4: Starting from the need, not the program
5. Module 5: Judging fit for your school
6. Optional Module A: Taking apart an existing school design
7. Optional Module B: Checking fidelity to core components
8. Module 6: Writing the EBI choice into your plan

Open the course

What the grant allows in each domain, and what to weigh in choosing an intervention that fits your root causes and meets the federal evidence requirements. Watch the ones for the domains your team is considering.

1. The root causes a school may find behind chronic absence, and the components and evidence-based models of a multi-tiered system of support for attendance.

2. Root causes in student diagnoses, behavior referrals and mental health intervention, and how a tiered system of support responds to them.

3. Coaching and professional learning for building leaders, tied to your root causes and connected to an evidence-based intervention in MTSS or removing barriers.

4. Naming your local barriers and the measures that track them, with examples of evidence-based interventions at the secondary level.

5. Design considerations for alternative and virtual schools: finding the parts of your school design the grant can strengthen or supplement, and the interventions with evidence behind them.