Multi-Tiered System of Supports
Whitney High School’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) aligns with the California Department of Education’s model for an integrated, comprehensive framework that promotes academic, behavioral, and social success for all students. Grounded in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), our approach emphasizes high-quality instruction, student-centered learning, differentiated support, and system-wide alignment to meet the diverse needs of every learner.
Key components of our MTSS include:
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Data-Driven Systems: We analyze academic and behavioral data to provide timely and effective support for all students, including gifted and high-achieving learners.
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Our staff is committed to UDL strategies, ensuring students engage with content in multiple ways and demonstrate their understanding through various formats.
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Proactive Intervention: Instructional and intervention supports are built around CCSS-aligned lessons to help students succeed before challenges become barriers.
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Ongoing Professional Development: Educators receive training in research-based strategies to strengthen first instruction and targeted interventions.
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Collaborative Practices: We are rethinking traditional approaches to foster collaboration across all school environments and ensure cohesive support for every student.
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- Tier I Interventions
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Tier II Interventions
Tier I Interventions
Universal - Utilized by 80% of the school population.
Academic Supports
WHS Offerings:
- Intervention
- Senior mentor
- Curriculum essential skills
- Standards-Evidence based instruction
- Research based instruction
- Cocoa and cram
- Schoology
- Intervention period
- A few extra minutes
- Goal setting
- Teacher office hours
- Parent and guardian resource night
Student Strategies:
- Grade reporting checklist
- Study skills
- Learning styles-Learning inventories
- Study strategies
- Goal setting
- UDL strategies
Teacher Strategies:
- Tutoring and extended office hours
- Communication with parents
- Mandatory reporting
- Student/parent meetings
- Parent/teacher meetings
- Schoology
- Intervention appointments
Behavioral Supports:
WHS Offerings:
- Senior offering positive referrals
- Rewards for perfect attendance
- Referrals/detentions/Saturday school
- Breaking down the walls
- Whitney unified the movement and the curriculum-school resource
- School Resources Officer
- Parent conference
- Every 15 Minutes
Student Strategies:
- Coping strategies
- Communicate with teachers
- Goal setting
- Seek a trusted adult
Teacher Strategies:
- Engaging activities
- Student-centered activities
- Behavioral management system
- Seating changes
- Teacher/parent/student conference
- Mandated reporting
Social-Emotional Supports:
WHS Offerings:
- Senior mentor
- NAMI club
- September suicide prevention week
- March mental health awareness week
- "R word" week
- Health class
- Whitney United lessons were developed to connect students to the campus
- Whitney united movements
- Curriculum-kindness lessons
- Mental Awareness Week
- Teacher/parent meetings
- Mandatory reporting
- Teacher training and strategies (KOGNITO)
- Breaking down the walls program
- Every 15 Minutes
- Submitted, presented, and approved the suicide prevention board policy
- Staff presentation on student mental health and signs
- Immediate attention and suicide risk assessment are provided as needed daily
- Mental health incorporated into freshman success classes
Student Strategies:
- Anxiety checklist for classrooms
- Reflective listening
Teacher Strategies:
- Student-centered activities-classroom
- Behavior expectations-documented
- Intervention meetings
- Counselor-Special Ed representative-teacher feedback
- Feedback