Communication and Collaboration

This component of Ohio’s Integrated Multi-Tiered System of Supports highlights the importance of promoting and supporting engagement and shared responsibility for creating effective instruction conditions for all students. Key to this effort is a strengths-based lens among all teaching and non-teaching staff, administrators, families, caregivers, and students.

Essential Features

Staff Communication and Collaboration

  • A strengths-based lens and mutual respect underpin all communication and collaboration.
  • A written communication plan is in place to keep staff informed.
  • Teacher collaboration occurs frequently.
  • A description of the essential components of the integrated multi-tiered system of supports is shared with staff.
  • All staff, including teaching and non-teaching staff, share responsibility for student progress/outcomes in both academic and non-academic areas.
  • All staff, including teaching and non-teaching staff, are involved in providing academic and non-academic supports that address the needs of all students.
  • Multiple school-based and community-based student support initiatives are coordinated and integrated within the school for academic and non-academic areas.

Family and Caregiver Communication and Collaboration

  • A strengths-based lens and mutual respect underpin all communication and collaboration.
  • Families and caregivers are provided with information to understand how high-quality instructional materials, evidence-based programs/practices, and research-based practices are used to support their students in academic and non-academic areas across all tiers of the continuum of supports.
  • Staff regularly involve students as partners in decision-making and problem solving.
  • Staff regularly involve families and caregivers as partners in decision-making and problem solving.

Conditions for Success

See “Conditions for Success: Communication and Collaboration” on the Universal Screening, Data-Based Decision Making, Continuum of Supports, Progress Monitoring, and Team-Based Decision Making pages.  

Resources

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