Division Level Core Team (DLCT)/VTSS Implementation Team:
- Deputy Superintendent: Lois Graham
- Director of Student Intervention Services: Judy Diggs
- Director of Elementary Education: Barbara Wickham
- Director of Secondary Education: Carl Pauli
- Supervisor of Special Education, Pre-school and Elementary: Julie Ligon
- Project AWARE Manager/VTSS Coordinator: Jennifer Baldwin
- SAP Coordinators: Julie Neely and Paige Walters
- 504 Coordinator: Natalie Mey
- Coordinator of School Counseling: Melissa Hipple
- Public Information Officer/Clerk of the Board: Brenda Drake
- Instructional Coaches: Debbi Fewster and Ernestine Saville-Brock
- Director of Human Resources: Annie Whitaker
- VTSS Trainers and Coaches: Tracy Kwock and Wendi Jenkins
The division leadership team is responsible for
the development, implementation, and ongoing
monitoring of a plan that builds the capacity
across the division. It is this single divisionwide
plan that allows the VTSS to achieve system
change opposed to islands of excellence
within each building throughout the division. The primary responsibility of the division
leadership team is to establish divisionwide
procedures and capacity for the implementation
of VTSS. In establishing divisionwide VTSS
procedures, the division leadership team
must draw upon the guidance from the
Virginia Department of Education, best
practices indicated by the research, and the
current practices within the division. The
division leadership team must have a strong
understanding of the VTSS model and take the
time to carefully investigate and understand
the current practices within the division at all
levels. The goal of the VTSS model is to create a
divisionwide approach to instructional decision
making at all levels from the classroom up to the
division. The division leadership team’s primary
responsibility is to establish the procedures
that will enable instructional decision making
from the classroom to the division level and
provide the professional development and
support to building leadership teams and
staff to accomplish shared responsibility for
learning. The division leadership team creates,
implements, and monitors the VTSS plan. (Virginia Tiered System of Supports (VTSS) A Guide for School Divisions by the Virginia Department of Education).
MCPS VTSS Implementation Plan
Positive Impact of VTSS
RESOURCES:
Project AWARE Mental Health Monthly Update Newsletters and Presentations
September 2016 Newletter: Social-Emotional Learning and Suicide Prevention
AWARE Brief: Mental Health and Academic Achievement
Presentation - Mental Health: A Key to Positive Futures for Youth in Foster Care
NEW Report to Congress 2015: "The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances Program"
- The recording for Session 1 of the VTSS Readiness Series
VTSS Readiness Webinar Session
http://www.pbis.org/
Supporting and Responding to Behavior/Evidence-Based Practices for Teachers
http://www.pbisworld.com/
PBIS in Virginia/Resources
Part 1: The "What and Why" of Interconnected Systems Framework/ How School Mental Health and PBIS Work Together
The first episode focuses on increasing your understanding of a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework and the critical features and rationale behind the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF).
Part 2: The "How" of ISF
The second episode focuses on increasing your understanding of how to install the ISF following the stages of implementation science and how to apply ISF in order to more effectively serve children, families, schools, and communities.
Part 3: The Outcomes of ISF
The third, and final, episode focuses on increasing your understanding of potential outcomes of implementing ISF and the tools that may assist you in doing so.