A shift from referral to real support. This professional learning day is built around one question: what do we do next? It treats MLSS as a continuous problem-solving system, not a referral pathway, and is designed for mixed experience, from staff newer to MLSS to leaders and veterans who coach it. By the end of the day participants can:

• Explain MLSS as a continuous problem-solving system, not a referral pathway

• Tell student, instructional and system-level problems apart

• Design a targeted intervention with enough detail to implement and monitor it

• Use several sources of evidence to decide whether to continue, adjust, intensify, fade or change support

• Name one change their classroom, team or school can test right away

The day includes a K–12 case-based problem-solving simulation (the MLSS Lab), a look at implementation barriers, and a 30-day implementation plan for each school or team. Bring a laptop and an SAT in progress.

Who it's for: MLSS coaches, interventionists, SAT team members and educators.

Presenter: Christopher Vian, Education Administrator for Multi-Layered Systems of Support and Gifted Education at the New Mexico Public Education Department. He travels the state helping schools put layered supports and gifted programming in place. He has taught from early childhood through college in Oklahoma, China and New Mexico, including at Chief Manuelito Middle School in Gallup, and is a past president of the New Mexico Association for the Gifted.

Where: Farmington Civic Center, Totah and Bisti Rooms. Lunch on your own.

Cost: Free for member district staff.

Recording: none available yet.

Materials: Agenda (PDF)

Resources: none available yet.