Designing School Health Services to Provide Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for All Students

Abstract

A system-level health equity lens is needed to meet the needs of today’s students. School nurses stand at the intersection of health and education, poised to improve the health and academic outcomes for all children in collaboration with school health and education colleagues with a focus to reframe “learning and health losses” to “learning and health recovery.” The Multi-Tiered System of Support is a familiar approach used in schools to address education equity for students. Working alongside educators, school nurses can demonstrate how including health in this framework augments reaching the goal of supporting student academic success.

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school health services school nurses MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support)mental health

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