<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[ConnectedMTSS]]></title><description><![CDATA[ConnectedMTSS]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/connectedmtss</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:21:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Tears or Tiers for Data Analysis? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years ago, I worked for/with a dream team, and we were tasked with developing our district's data-based decision-making framework from scratch. After reviewing many districts, I landed on a model of data presentation from SCRED in MN. Leadership in SCRED at the time was generous with time and sharing of information. We were using NWEA-MAP as our universal screener and we wanted a way to give teams an efficient way to see where we wanted students to be (proficient) and if there were scores...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/tears-or-tiers-for-data-analysis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f6b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:11:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/251654_a9ec87d3187c4adda702cbe1c4324b7b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_872,h_517,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 10 List of Things Learned Over Way Too Many Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before Stephen Colbert, David Letterman hosted The  Late Show with David Letterman from 1993 to 2015. One of the signature segments was the “Late Show Top 10,” where he would pick a topic and put a humorous spin on the top 10 items regarding a particular theme. At the almost halfway point through the schoolyear and having lived through some stuff in the past few years, here’s a Top 10 that I would share with early career me if I could.   From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, the Top 10...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/top-10-list-of-things-learned-over-way-too-many-years</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f73</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:09:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Cut Scores: How Educators Can Use a Cut-Score to Predict Student Success]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s been an exciting start to the year. Since last year, literacy practices and the science of reading frameworks have continued to...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/understanding-cut-scores-how-educators-can-use-a-cut-score-to-predict-student-success</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f72</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:53:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educator Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other day, I was comparing notes with someone about how long we both worked in K-12 education. I had a rough idea of the number of...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/educator-experience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f5f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:11:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Interventions? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other day, I was reviewing a student's performance on the CORE Phonics Survey. I noticed that the student struggled with...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/ai-interventions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f65</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:24:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Sites and Resources]]></title><description><![CDATA[A while ago, I submitted a reasonably informal article to a state school psychologist association about resources that could be used by...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/favorite-sites-and-resources</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f5a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 15:41:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/251654_a969b7b2e37441eea0db585922025680~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_286,h_292,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mid-Life Ed-Career Crisis-resolved for now]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four years ago, my wife took a job that required us to move 400 miles from our previous home. That meant I had to leave an MTSS...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/mid-life-ed-career-crisis-resolved-for-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f6f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:16:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/251654_13dff45f7ff846b4a93cdf04ab89dcba~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making the most of the last re-eval (Ohio specific but can likely generalize)]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I moved to Ohio, it meant moving back to the high school level which I had not done for several years. One of the first things that...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/making-the-most-of-the-last-re-eval-ohio-specific-but-can-likely-generalize</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f71</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:45:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oral Reading Fluency and High School Data: Too Much and Now, Not Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the last year, many educators went from having too much assessment data on students to not having current data to make decisions...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/oral-reading-fluency-and-high-schooldata-too-much-and-now-not-enough</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f69</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 15:38:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing Data?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Students everywhere are either returning to school part-time or full-time in the coming weeks. There have been many districts that spent...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/missing-data</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f6a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:46:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monitoring Executive Functioning for Improvement]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the high school level*, I estimate that I hear the term “executive functioning” (EF) hourly. I have been curious to ask those using...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/monitoring-executive-functioning-for-improvement</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f6c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:24:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not ready to let go of RtI for SLD (part 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several years ago, Wisconsin transitioned from the discrepancy model for identification of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) to...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/not-ready-to-let-go-of-rti-for-sld-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f67</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:40:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goal Setting in a Hybrid Attendance Model]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week, a question was raised regarding progress monitoring and goal setting. The context here is that the school is using a hybrid...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/goal-setting-in-a-hybrid-attendance-model</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f66</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:48:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_50f6388b3f2b47fe96cac5738fcf4a0e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_632,h_164,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grading on a Curve? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week I saw something that caused me to think, “Huh?” I was reviewing a student’s grades and saw an asterisk after a test and the...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/grading-on-a-curve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f63</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:47:34 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MTSS By Yourself...Because of COVID]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting, Starting Over, or Revising MTSS School closure and now a fluid environment has resulted in many educators feeling challenged to...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/mtss-by-yourself-because-of-covid</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f62</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:54:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[IES Practice Guides - An Unfortunate Secret]]></title><description><![CDATA[TL;DR IES Practice Guides should be widely known and used by educators The Practice Guides are discipline agnostic Use these to focus on...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/ies-practice-guides-an-unfortunate-secret</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f5d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:41:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monitoring Frequency- even when RtI not required for SLD]]></title><description><![CDATA[TL;DR version: Collect data for at least 6 weeks (low stakes decisions) If weekly, conduct 12 weeks (or more) of CBM If administering 3...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/monitoring-frequency-even-when-rti-not-required-for-sld</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f5b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:21:44 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making some sense of requests]]></title><description><![CDATA[To me, one of the best improvements in education has been the rapid delivery of information through Twitter or social media. Long gone...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/making-some-sense-of-requests</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f5e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:21:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_907b8de1515546279eac61ea207b0d1f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MTSS in a virtual setting?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like many, I have seen local school districts release plans and modify plans within a week based on the presence of COVID-19. Sadly,...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/mtss-in-a-virtual-setting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f6e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:52:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance Learning Experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is likely a frustrating time for teachers and parents. Teachers are scrambling to figure out how to teach from a distance. Most...]]></description><link>https://connectedmtss.wixsite.com/connectedmtss/post/distance-learning-experiment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57cae717d740eb3fc56f61</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:18:14 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Chris Birr</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>