Webinar | Covenantal Care for Students: Viewing MTSS as a Collective Responsibility

Join Dordt University for a free professional development webinar.

Covenantal Care for Students: Moving MTSS Beyond A Person, Place, or Program toward a Framework of Collective Responsibility

Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is a framework designed to respond to the academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs of all students. But sometimes it can be challenging to enact and not everyone sees their role.

By the end of the webinar, educators will leave with:

1. An understanding of the key components of the MTSS
2. Knowledge of MTSS guiding principles
3. Considerations of how infrastructure impacts MTSS
4. How to apply MTSS to your local context

Let’s imagine ways forward to creatively, intentionally, and collectively serve students.

Presenter

Erik Ringsby (M.S.) serves as instructor of special education at Dordt University. He is certified in cognitive coaching, advanced cognitive coaching, and adaptive schools. His research interests include multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), leveraging standards to identify entry points for all learners, and instructional coaching (mediating thinking).

Prior to Dordt, he supported student learning and educator development as an instructional coach and special education teacher in the Ames Community School District, providing professional development in areas like MTSS. Committed to fostering a collective body for holistic student learning in and out of the classroom, Ringsby was also involved as a middle school coach for sports such as volleyball, basketball, and track.

Called to find evidence-based, creative, and imaginative ways for all image bearers to be seen, learn, and grow, Ringsby is continuing his education as a doctoral student in Educational Practice and Leadership with a focus on Teacher Education at the University of North Dakota.