As Mathews County Public Schools gears up for another academic year, Superintendent of Schools Dr. David S. Daniel provided an update on the division’s ongoing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support efforts to provide intervention to students struggling academically.
Daniel gave a brief presentation on ongoing MTSS efforts in the division at the start of Tuesday’s monthly school board meeting, which was held in the Harry M. Ward Auditorium at Mathews High School.
An easy way to explain MTSS, Daniel said, would be something very similar to a medical model, where test results are examined to determine what is going on and prescribe a treatment “to get back to healthy.”
Following this analogy, Daniel likened Tier I to diet and exercise, the day-to-day basics in classroom instruction to achieve results. “You can’t remediate your way through bad curriculum or bad instruction,” he said.
When the basics are done well, you can expect about 80-85 percent of students to pass standardized tests, he said...