This innovative guide to combining stand-alone academic and behavior supports into a single, integrated system is now in a thoroughly revised second edition, reflecting over a decade of advances in research and implementation. Many K–12 educators want to build integrated multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) but lack a roadmap for doing so. This book provides step-by-step strategies and tools that are practical, equitable, field tested, and empirically based. The authors outline efficient, sustainable ways to integrate data structures, practices, teams, and district systems; detailed cases present examples of implementation. In a convenient large-size format, the volume includes dozens of reproducible checklists and forms that also can be downloaded and printed.

New to This Edition

• Increased attention to supporting social–emotional well-being and mental health.
• Enhanced, more feasible recommendations for assessing fidelity of implementation.
• Additional assessments, including measures of district- and state-level capacity to support MTSS.
• More guidance for embedding student and family voices in planning and decision making.

This title is part of The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.