PO319: Equity and Multitiered Systems of Support: School Community Members' Perceptions

  • PMD: 5,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 1: Promoting Diversity and Multicultural Competence in School Psychology

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. explain and implement equitable strategies for Tier 1 implementation to better support culturally diverse youth, in concordance with the NASP Practice Model;
  2. assess and critically evaluate their schools’ current approaches to culturally responsive MTSS compared to student, educator, and family perspectives; and
  3. identify and describe current initiatives for socially just MTSS and their varied efficacy in a large, urban school district.

Description

This project analyzes qualitative interview data to discern student, staff, and caregivers perceptions about systems-level, equitable multitiered systems of support (MTSS) practices in a large urban district.

Presenter(s)

Diana P. Laenen, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Lindsay M. Fallon, PhD, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Ryan Sunda, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Brian Daniels, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Contributor(s)

Staci Ballard, Tamara Lawson

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