For our final episode of the “Voices from the Field” series, we chatted with Jenna Blank, an educator at Livonia Elementary School in the small, rural community of Livonia in Western New York.

Jenna has been an educator for 14 years and three years ago took on a new position of coordinating the RTI/MTSS process for her school and loves being about to work closely with teachers and families in support of students. Previously she had been a classroom teacher and reading specialist. She continues to teach PreK in the mornings and loves the ability to focus on early foundational skills with her little ones!

Quotes:

"The pandemic highlighted how important to have parents involved in your MTSS process. They have so much valuable information that might often be overlooked. They are the other half of their child's life. They bring such valuable knowledge and insight."

"It can't be underestimated the power of a strong Tier 1 curriculum, accessibility to research-based Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, and a platform to organize and track your data. If you don't have a strong Tier 1, you're trying to remedy something in Tier 2 and Tier 3 that can't be remedied"

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