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Norris instructional specialists report progress on MTSS, Nebraska Reads Act interventions
Summary
District instructional specialists told the board they have refined tiered reading interventions, used branching‑minds benchmarking, and are implementing Nebraska Reads Act Individual Reading Improvement Plans where students are flagged.
Norris School District 160’s two instructional specialists described work this year focused on multi‑tiered systems of support (MTSS), progress monitoring and compliance with the Nebraska Reads Act.
Heather Terry and Darian Carney said they have spent the school year building a districtwide framework for tier‑2 interventions, aligning specific interventions to the reading or math skills students lack and setting clearer protocols for placement and dismissal. They said administrators and teacher teams are meeting quarterly to review student progress and make program moves based on skills data rather than only…
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