School Counseling MTSS
This data practice cautions counselors not to rely solely on teacher referrals when identifying students needing Tier 2 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 principle emphasizes that universal services must be intentionally designed so that every student receives the support.
“All means all” or universal school counseling services
Tier 2 school counseling services are best described as these types of supports.
What are supplemental supports?
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)?
Making time-use decisions without considering this can unintentionally advantage some student groups while disadvantaging others.
What is equity?
According to the MTMDSS framework, Tier 1 includes which 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 term refers to a school counselor’s time being “productive to the max” with minimal wasted effort.
What is efficiency?
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?
Students with three or more discipline referrals or multiple N’s and U’s on report cards fall into this Tier 2 identification bucket.
What is demonstrated need?
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?
In the Hatching Results Conceptual Diagram, Tier 2 is most effective when it is targeted, data-driven, domain-specific, and directly connected to this system-level outcome.
What is closing opportunity and outcome gaps?
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.