#5: Family-School Collaboration in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support by Garbacz, Minch, & Weist
Research abounds on the benefits of family-school collaboration for students’ social, emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning. The book Family-School Collaboration in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support by Garbacz, Minch, and Weist provides clear guidance for embedding family-school collaboration within a school’s multi-tiered framework. The book aligns with Virginia’s core components of MTSS, strongly emphasizing the importance of families’ involvement in data-informed decision-making, collaborative problem solving, and monitoring student progress. Families are positioned as essential partners in designing this coordinated support system. Check this book out from our ODU T-TAC Lending Library and you will quickly see the value of the implementation guides, reproducible checklists, forms and the plethora of examples of family engagement in action!