POSITION SUMMARY:
The MTSS Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring that the school's intervention systems operate with clarity, consistency, and fidelity, enabling teams to respond proactively to student needs and ensuring that all scholars receive the supports necessary to succeed. The MTSS Coordinator works closely with: Director of MTSS, Academic Leadership Team, Student Services Team
The MTSS Coordinator supports the implementation and continuous improvement of the school's Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to ensure that all scholars receive the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports necessary to succeed.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
This role serves as the building-level lead for MTSS implementation, facilitating data-driven problem solving, coordinating intervention systems, and ensuring that evidence-based supports are implemented with fidelity.
MTSS at Breakthrough Public Schools is designed as a comprehensive system of support that integrates academic, behavioral, and social-emotional data and interventions. The MTSS Coordinator ensures that teams analyze these domains collectively in order to identify student needs, implement appropriate interventions, and monitor progress over time.
This role ensures that the MTSS process moves beyond a traditional academic RtI model by supporting holistic problem-solving that considers instructional, behavioral, and social-emotional factors impacting student success.
While the MTSS Coordinator reports to the building principal, the role collaborates closely with the Director of MTSS to ensure alignment with network priorities, Breakthrough expectations, and best practices.
The MTSS Coordinator works across academic, culture, and student services teams to ensure the school's intervention systems are coherent and responsive to student needs, positioning the role to support integrated student support systems regardless of organizational structure.
MTSS Implementation & Leadership
- Lead the implementation of the school's integrated Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework, ensuring that academic, behavioral, and social-emotional data are analyzed together to inform student interventions.
- Facilitate building-level Student Support / MTSS meetings to review student performance and determine appropriate evidence-based interventions.
- Guide staff through structured problem-solving processes to identify root causes of student challenges across instructional, behavioral, and environmental factors.
- Support staff in implementing Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions aligned with Breakthrough MTSS guidance and research-based practices.
- Promote systems-level thinking that ensures intervention efforts are coordinated, consistent, and responsive to student needs.
Data Monitoring & Systems Management
- Monitor school-wide and student-level data using the network data management platforms, identifying trends, successes, and opportunities for improvement.
- Support school teams in analyzing academic assessment data, behavioral data, attendance trends, and social-emotional indicators to inform intervention decisions.
- Maintain accurate MTSS documentation and intervention tracking systems aligned with network expectations.
- Ensure intervention data is consistently collected and used to inform adjustments to student support plans.
Intervention Fidelity & Implementation Support
- Support the collection and analysis of student data to ensure high fidelity implementation of interventions.
- Monitor the effectiveness of Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions and support teams in adjusting strategies based on student progress.
- Provide guidance to teachers and intervention staff regarding progress monitoring practices and intervention implementation.
- Ensure interventions are implemented across academic, behavioral, and social-emotional domains, collaborating with instructional leaders, culture teams, and student services staff.
- Collaborate with academic and culture teams to ensure interventions are aligned with classroom instruction and school-wide systems of support.
Family Partnership & Student Advocacy
- Serve as a supportive partner to families, helping ensure that parents understand the MTSS process, the interventions being implemented, and how progress is monitored.
- Act as a student advocate, ensuring that scholars receive timely and appropriate interventions based on their demonstrated needs.
- Support staff in maintaining clear and transparent communication with families regarding intervention plans and student progress.
- Collaborate with staff to ensure students receiving interventions experience coordinated support across academic, behavioral, and social-emotional domains.
MTSS Process Management & Student Tracking
The MTSS Coordinator actively manages and monitors the movement of students through the MTSS process to ensure timely interventions that address academic, attendance, behavioral, and social-emotional needs.
Responsibilities include maintaining systems to track:
- Students currently receiving Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions
- Intervention start dates and duration
- Type of intervention and instructional strategy being implemented
- Frequency and minutes of intervention services
- Progress monitoring data and growth trends
- Fidelity of intervention implementation
- Students demonstrating insufficient progress despite interventions
- Students entering or exiting intervention tiers
- Students being considered for further evaluation based on intervention data
- Students re-entering intervention due to regression or emerging needs
The MTSS Coordinator regularly reviews these data points with building leadership and the Director of MTSS to ensure that students move through the MTSS process in a timely, data-informed manner.
MTSS System Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Monitor the effectiveness of the school's MTSS system by analyzing intervention entry rates, exit rates, referral patterns, and student progress trends.
- Share insights with building leadership and the Director of MTSS to strengthen intervention systems and improve student outcomes.
- Support the school in continuously improving intervention practices based on data, fidelity of implementation, and emerging needs.
Collaboration & Communication
- Serve as a liaison between building teams and the Director of MTSS to ensure alignment of intervention practices and network priorities.
- Partner with intervention specialists, teachers, school psychologists, and related service providers to support coordinated student supports.
- Collaborate with building leadership to ensure MTSS systems are integrated with instructional and culture initiatives.
- Support staff in understanding and implementing MTSS practices across grade levels and teams.
Compliance & Policy Alignment
- Ensure MTSS systems align with Breakthrough expectations and state guidelines related to intervention and early identification of student needs.
- Support building leadership in maintaining documentation of intervention efforts that may inform future referral or evaluation decisions when appropriate.
- Collaborate with the Compliance Manager and DSS&C when MTSS data suggests a student may require additional evaluation or services.
The MTSS Coordinator does not manage special education case management, IEP implementation, or compliance timelines.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Special Education, School Psychology, or a related field
Preferred
- Master's degree in Education, Special Education, School Psychology, or a related field
Experience:
Required
- Experience implementing or supporting MTSS, RtI, or intervention systems
- Experience analyzing student data to inform instructional or intervention decisions
- Strong facilitation, collaboration, and organizational skills
Preferred
- Experience with EduClimber or similar data platforms
- Experience facilitating collaborative problem-solving teams
- Experience working within urban public or charter school environments
Licensure and Certification(s):
- List all licensures and certifications required or preferred.
- Candidate must possess a valid driver's license with a driving record in accordance with the BPS's acceptable guidelines.
Technical Skills and Knowledge:
- Problem-Solving and Root Cause Analysis
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Systems Thinking
- Collaborative Leadership
- Strong Communication and Facilitation Skills
- Organizational and Project Management Skills
- Commitment to Equity and Student Success
- Understanding of integrated student support systems including academic intervention, behavioral supports, and social-emotional learning
Core Functions of the Role
- Facilitate MTSS problem solving teams
- Manage intervention data systems
- Monitor intervention fidelity
- Support staff capacity in MTSS practices
- Monitor effectiveness of MTSS systems
At Breakthrough Public Schools, leadership is not a title - it is a mindset.
We believe transformative schools are built by leaders who embody a clear set of mindsets that shape every decision, every interaction, and every outcome.
Our MTSS Coordinators lead with the following mindsets:
We Do Our Job.
- We take full ownership of results.
- We do not blame circumstances, systems, or people - we improve them.
- We ensure the work gets done at a high level because students are counting on us.
We Hold High Expectations.
- We believe all students can achieve at the highest levels.
- We define excellence clearly and refuse to lower the bar.
- We intervene quickly when performance slips - in ourselves and in others.
Kid Needs > Adult Needs.
- We make decisions based on what is best for students, even when it is hard.
- We prioritize long-term student success over short-term adult comfort.
We Communicate Openly and Honestly.
- We give direct, actionable feedback.
- We say what needs to be said in service of growth.
- We seek clarity and alignment rather than comfort.
We Remain Committed.
- We persist through challenge.
- We do not waver when the work is difficult.
- We understand that consistency - not intensity - drives transformation.
We Center Joy.
- We believe rigor and joy coexist.
- We create environments where adults and students feel purpose, belonging, and pride.
- We celebrate growth and progress along the way.
Breakthrough operates as a unified system across five campuses, grounded in a shared school model and a clear Arc of the Year for adult and instructional excellence.
We are seeking MTSS Coordinators who are relentless about outcomes and unwavering in their commitment to students.
If you are energized by building strong teams, setting a clear bar, and driving meaningful academic growth for children - you will find your work here matters deeply.
WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Performs work in an office setting with moderate levels of noise, sitting for long periods of time, repetitive motion using computers and phones, with exposure to fluorescent lighting.
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Compensation packages are competitive and commensurate with experience. Breakthrough Schools offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision, life and disability coverage. Employees are also eligible to participate in the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (STRS) or the School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS).
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