MTSS & RTI Social-Emotional Behavior Interventions
Effective intervention solutions help students with social-emotional and behavioral needs during today's challenging times
Guide
3 Steps to Implement Social-Emotional & MTSS/RTI Interventions

What are MTSS & RTI Social-Emotional Interventions?
Social-emotional and behavioral interventions are programs, practices and approaches to help students who need additional instruction for social-emotional skill development or behavior in order to reach universal learning goals.
Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) approaches such as Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) define a tiered approach in which all students receive core instruction (Tier 1), some students require additional targeted intervention (Tier 2), and a small cohort of students receive the most intensive intervention (Tier 3).
Improve Student Outcomes and School Climate
- Improve students’ behavior
- Adopt evidence-based alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices
- Reduce repeat referrals for defiant, disrespectful and disruptive behavior
- Fill gaps in mental health services and behavioral supports
- Address students’ non-academic barriers to learning, including trauma

What are MTSS & RTI Social-Emotional Interventions?

Collect and Analyze Data to Inform Intervention Plans
- Improve students’ behavior
- Adopt evidence-based alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices
- Reduce repeat referrals for defiant, disrespectful and disruptive behavior
- Fill gaps in mental health services and behavioral supports
- Address students’ non-academic barriers to learning, including trauma
Collect and Analyze Data to Inform Intervention Plans
- Improve students’ behavior
- Adopt evidence-based alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices
- Reduce repeat referrals for defiant, disrespectful and disruptive behavior
- Fill gaps in mental health services and behavioral supports
- Address students’ non-academic barriers to learning, including trauma
Collect and Analyze Data to Inform Intervention Plans
- Improve students’ behavior
- Adopt evidence-based alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices
- Reduce repeat referrals for defiant, disrespectful and disruptive behavior
- Fill gaps in mental health services and behavioral supports
- Address students’ non-academic barriers to learning, including trauma
Intervention Solutions with Kickboard
Kickboard has partnered with Centervention and Ripple Effects to provide a total solution for social-emotional and behavioral intervention. With this combined solution schools can identify students struggling with behavior or social-emotional skills, address their behavior and skill development as well as the underlying causes, and monitor progress in real time.