COMTSS has a Regional Pilot in the San Luis Valley with the SLV BOCES and serving 8

San Luis Valley School Districts. 

Alamosa School District

Moffat School District

Center School District

Creede School District

Sargent School District

South Conejos School District

Centennial School District 

Mountain Valley School District 

Colorado Multi-Tiered System of Supports (COMTSS) is a prevention-based framework using team-driven leadership and data-based problem solving to improve the outcomes of every student through family, school, and community partnerships, comprehensive assessment, and a layered continuum of supports. Implementation science and universal design for learning are employed to create one integrated system that focuses on increasing academic and behavioral outcomes to equitably support the varying needs of all students.

COMTSS consists of five essential components. These components are the foundation and the underlying philosophy of the Practice Profiles. The COMTSS Practice Profiles were developed to specify exemplary strategies that regional, district and school implementation teams can use to support effective and sustainable use of the COMTSS framework as intended. These profiles guide and inform the development and/or refinement of the necessary supports and resources for the COMTSS implementation, such as professional learning, coaching, identification of fidelity measures, a state-level evaluation plan, and necessary changes in procedures and policy.

Regional or District Level

At the regional or district level, leadership teams build infrastructure that supports the implementation of the five components of COMTSS.

The building of this infrastructure includes:

Identifying and aligning key priorities;

Securing funding, resources, and time to implement those priorities;

Developing training and coaching structures to support personnel with implementation, and

Gathering data to evaluate the implementation and impact of the key priorities

School Level

At the school level, building teams implement their identified priorities and build a tiered system that fits their respective context. School teams identify the fidelity and student outcomes they wish to achieve and then identify the data needed to monitor progress toward those outcomes. They also outline the practices used at each tier, as well as the systems that enable staff to both implement the identified practices and to gather the required data.

Regional, District & School Practice Profiles (PDF)