Leverage Your MTSS to Keep Students on Track During School Transitions

Presented by Breana Piles, Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Coordinator, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD (TX); John Muldoon, Assistant Superintendent, Maple Run Unified School District (VT); and MaryAdair McGrath, Account Director, Panorama Education

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Periods of transition can have a huge impact on student success—and not just academically. When moving from school to school, whether that’s from elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, or between school districts, there are significant challenges in keeping students on track. The effect is evident in the data: more students fail ninth grade than any other (Cohen & Smerdon, 2009) and students experiencing homelessness are 87% more likely to drop out of school than their stably housed peers.

Transition planning as part of your MTSS can provide achievable plans, interventions, and measurable data to identify and track student progress toward success. Watch district leaders for this edLeader Panel where they share:

• Steps for reviewing historical end-of-year data and setting clear plans for students’ transitions
• How to identify what types of data are most important for predicting transition challenges
• How to identify and execute targeted interventions that go beyond the transition program for all students

This recorded edLeader Panel is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

About the Presenters

Breana Piles is a coordinator, consultant, and educational podcaster with over 13 years of experience in public education. She has led multiple teams of varying sizes in support of students with a diverse range of needs, from Title I campuses to special education implementation to support of students in residential treatment. Breana holds a Master of Education, a Master of Arts in Humanities, and a principalship certification, and currently works in district administration as the Coordinator of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. Breana’s expertise in behavioral theory, education, and support allows her to work with district and campus leaders, as well as individual teachers, to create and implement plans for student success. As Coordinator of MTSS, she also leads her district in systems planning for support in academic, behavioral, and social-emotional wellness domains.

John Muldoon came to Maple Run Unified from the Shanghai American School, a consulate-sponsored school in Shanghai where he served as Principal. He has also been a teacher, coach, intervention director, assistant principal, and principal at both the middle and high school levels. He has participated in collaborative efforts to develop safe communities that embrace diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, implemented robust school leadership collaboration, intervention structures, and programming, and has led work establishing a guaranteed and viable curriculum. John was brought up in southern New Hampshire and has a bachelor’s degree from Merrimack College and a master’s degree from Salem State University. He most recently completed his Ph.D. in organizational leadership at Northeastern University.

MaryAdair McGrath has been an Account Director at Panorama for almost seven years, working closely with districts to roll out data systems aligned to Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, to understand stakeholder experience, and to take meaningful action to improve outcomes. MaryAdair currently supports some of the largest urban districts in the country and in Texas, including Aldine ISD, Alief ISD, District of Columbia Public Schools, Houston ISD, New Mexico Public Education Department, and Northside ISD. Before joining Panorama, MaryAdair taught middle school special education in Houston, TX and Boston, MA for seven years. She was a founding member of a middle school campus and helped build the special education department from the ground up, and she spent the last three years of her teaching career as the Director of Special Education at a charter network in Boston. MaryAdair holds a B.A. in government with a focus on justice and peace studies from Georgetown University.

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