For Participants in the MTSS: Tiered Academic Support Literacy Academy.

Each school will send a team of literacy leaders to a statewide literacy academy.  The teams will be given the necessary tools to evaluate current literacy practices, build a multi-tiered instructional and assessment model utilizing scientifically-research based methods, embedded professional develop plan and systems for measuring fidelity of implementation and effectiveness of instruction. It will be expected that participants will take the tools and training delivered during the modules and implement with their district and school based teams.