About
Twenty-five years,
one problem.
Nobody is excellent at everything. Schools are asked to be anyway, and multi-tiered support is usually the piece that gets whatever time is left over. Straightening that out is what I do.
For nine years I was the sole MTSS District Facilitator for Warren Consolidated Schools, a large district in southeast Michigan. I supported 22 buildings as they built the systems that hold student support together.
Everything I built came out of necessity, streamlined to fit what each building actually needed. Agendas and meeting structures, data analysis training, course and intervention decision making – I learned the ins and outs of what works in a building and what only works on paper.
I left that post in 2026 to bring these supports to districts across the state.
I’m not a research center and I’m not a framework. If you’ve committed to RTI at Work or something like it, good – I’m here to make it run on a Thursday in your building.
What I believe about this work
01MTSS is not a proper noun. It’s work your existing teams do, not a program you adopt. The moment it becomes a binder it stops working.
02Don’t build an MTSS team. Your staff already sit on grade-level, department and leadership teams. The work belongs to the teams you have.
03Structure is what makes hard conversations possible. A good protocol is what lets a teacher ask a colleague something difficult without it becoming personal.
04You already paid for the time. Most districts fought to protect collaboration time and didn’t get the return. Making it pay off is the cheapest improvement available to you.