REL Mid-Atlantic is supporting District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) to develop fidelity standards to assess the degree to which schools are implementing a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). The coaching project will include co-facilitation of user experience conversations with DCPS MTSS staff, school level educators, and other community partners, a review of best practices literature on building fidelity standards, a scan of data currently collected through the MTSS system, and recommendations for implementation of the fidelity standards. The fidelity standards, co-developed by REL Mid-Atlantic and the DCPS MTSS team, will be disseminated and utilized during the 2023-2024 school year.

REL Mid-Atlantic will provide technical support to DC Public Schools (DCPS) to enhance their muti-tiered systems of support (MTSS) data reporting structures and dashboards and to identify pain points surfaced during the analysis of MTSS data. REL Mid-Atlantic and DCPS will then co-explore feasible solutions to address these challenges. To explore areas of improvement related to DCPS’s MTSS data dashboard and reporting structures, REL Mid-Atlantic and DCPS will co-facilitate up to five focus group sessions to learn about DCPS staff experiences with MTSS data reporting and use in years 1 and 2 of MTSS implementation. In subsequent working sessions, REL and DCPS will synthesize themes from the focus groups as well as co-explore and co-develop feasible solutions to improve these processes. DCPS and REL Mid-Atlantic also aim to address MTSS data analysis pain points surfaced through a series of working sessions that will explore root causes and feasible solutions for DCPS to adopt within their current data environment. Opportunities for additional capacity building activities in future phases of the partnership will also be explored.