Inverted Pyramid Planning Template: Planning an MTSS Framework That Works for ALL Students

Group of four professionals brainstorming a chart on a whiteboard.

Have a bias towards action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

– Indira Gandhi



PRE-PLANNING REFLECTION

  • Each member involved with this planning should reflect independently:
    • What are your own ideas for your school’s MTSS framework?
    • What do you hope the MTSS planning process achieves?
    • What do you anticipate the MTSS planning process will achieve? Why?

POST-PLANNING REFLECTION

  • Each member involved with this planning should reflect independently:
    • Did your own ideas for your school’s MTSS framework change over the course of the planning process? How and/or why?
    • Did the MTSS planning process achieve what you had hoped it would? In what ways did it? In what ways did it exceed hopes? In what ways did it fall short?
    • Did the MTSS planning process achieve what you had anticipated it would? In what ways did it? In what ways did it exceed hopes? In what ways did it fall short?

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