A hybrid course format provides rich, on-demand content plus five, 90-minute Zoom sessions per course.
Choose between two Zoom meeting options on Tuesdays to fit your schedule: 7am & 7pm Eastern (New York).
Catch up if you miss a session or revisit the conversation with Zoom meeting recordings and transcripts.
About the course
MTSS is meant to be a proactive framework that ensures students get what they need—without waiting to fall behind. But too often, it becomes a patchwork of disconnected interventions, compliance-driven paperwork, or over-reliance on pull-outs and one-on-one support. In this course, we’ll take a strategic, schoolwide approach to MTSS—focusing on how to build systems that maximize human capital, strengthen Tier 1 instruction, and ensure interventions are efficient, timely, and effective. We’ll explore how to: 🏫 Prioritize Tier 1 effectiveness as the foundation of a strong MTSS 🗓️ Shift the master schedule to make time for intervention without pulling students from essential instruction 👥 Redefine the roles of teachers, specialists, and paraprofessionals to work collaboratively 📈 Use universal screeners, progress monitoring tools, and team-based decision-making to match students with the right supports 📂 Build the meeting structures and data systems that drive timely, collaborative problem-solving
Instructor: Dr. Johana Cena
Johanna is co-creator of and instructor for the MTSS course and conducts professional learning with Lead Inclusion. She is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the American School of Barcelona. She has 18 years of experience in education, 10 of those years as an Elementary principal and Director of ELL programs in Barcelona and in Portland, Oregon. Johanna has also been a classroom teacher, ELL teacher, instructional coach and staff developer. She has been a presenter on the topics of teacher leadership, content literacy, reading interventions, English language development, reader’s and writer’s workshop, culturally relevant teaching strategies, sheltered instruction, and systems such as response to instruction and intervention and Positive Behavior Support.
Join us to strengthen your MTSS leadership!