- 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…
- explain and implement equitable strategies for Tier 1 implementation to better support culturally diverse youth, in concordance with the NASP Practice Model;
- assess and critically evaluate their schools’ current approaches to culturally responsive MTSS compared to student, educator, and family perspectives; and
- 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