School Counseling MTSS
In addition to referral forms, school counselors do this to determine which students may need extra support.
What is proactively collecting data at regular intervals?
This type of task is often assigned by supervisors or taken on voluntarily by school counselors—and contributes to opportunity gaps and inequities.
What are non-counseling duties?
This Tier 1 tool outlines when, what, and how counselors deliver prevention lessons so that every student receives consistent instruction across academic, career, and social-emotional domains.
What is a Tier 1 Scope and Sequence or Tier 1 Action Plan
These seven words describe the essential components of a well-designed school counseling goal, often remembered by a colorful acronym used to keep goals focused on outcomes and equity.
What are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound, Inclusive, and Equitable?
What is the ultimate goal of using data in school counseling?
To show how students are different as a result of the school counseling program and how it's connected to overall academic success
This tier of MTMDSS includes school counseling curriculum, individual student planning, and districtwide/schoolwide activities.
What is Tier 1 (Universal Supports)?
This biannual practice helps school counselors evaluate where their time is being spent.
What is a use of time study?
According to the MTMDSS framework, Tier 1 includes these three types of universal supports?
What are school counseling curriculum, Individual student planning, and district/schoolwide activities?
Tier 2 services are intentionally designed for students who need more than universal supports and typically represent about this percentage of the student population.
What is approximately 20%?
Which data type would help demonstrate student growth in self-management skills?
What is perception data - pre/post test
This expanded MTSS model incorporates not just academic and social/emotional supports, but also college and career development.
What is MTMDSS (Multi-Tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports)?
This tool helps school counselors organize their year and when shared with others is a great advocacy resource.
What is Annual Calendar
A district requires 80% of its Tier 1 curriculum to be consistent, preventative, and developmental, while allowing 20% to reflect school-level data and trends. This approach is known as this.
What is franchising the school counseling curriculum?
Before providing small-group or individual interventions at Tier 2, counselors must clearly define the skill or concern they’re targeting. This step is called…
What is identifying the root cause
Match this statement to the type of data: "Suspension decreased by 10% after the small counseling group focused on behavior."
What is outcome data?
These are short-term, intensified supports (usually 6–8 weeks) intended for the few students needing more than Tier 2.
What is Tier 3 (Intensified Supports)?
This pattern of behavior includes taking on any task asked, supporting the status quo, and completing quasi-administrative work even when it compromises counseling services.
What is Nice Counselor Syndrome
A school counselor offers FAFSA presentations during all lunch periods. While this is labeled as a Tier 1 support in the MTMDSS framework, it is not truly reaching every student. What is the most effective way to make this Tier 1 intervention more equitable?
What is delivering the FAFSA content through required classroom lessons so all students in the grade level receive it?
This four-step problem-solving process helps school counselors test a strategy, examine results, and adjust their approach—essentially the educational world’s version of “try it, check it, tweak it, repeat.”
What is Plan - Do - Study - Act
What is the ultimate purpose of connecting process, perception, and outcome data?
What is to show how school counseling interventions impact student achievement, attendance, and behavior.