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Ballston Spa schools outline MTSS rollout, steering committee and intervention banks
Summary
District MTSS coordinator Dana Sisk told the Board of Education the district has begun implementing an integrated Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) with a steering committee, building teams, intervention banks and a plan to complete handbooks, action plans and data tracking in 2025–26.
Dana Sisk, director of secondary special education and the district’s MTSS coordinator, told the Ballston Spa Central School District Board of Education on July 2 that the district has moved from audit to implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports framework.
Sisk said the district completed an MTSS audit in 2023 and presented 11 recommendations to the board. Since January 2024 the district has held reboot presentations, surveyed staff, created a district MTSS steering committee and formed building-level implementation teams to align local practices with the New York State MTSS implementation framework released in October 2023.
Sisk said the district asked faculty to volunteer for MTSS work and received 254 survey responses; about 80 staff provided written comments. She said those responses showed significant variation in how MTSS is implemented across and within buildings…
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