 Hello, my name is Tony Earhart. I'm the new MTSS and Peek Project Coordinator at the ESU-8 in Neely. This is my twelfth year of experience in education. I have experience in general education, special education, counseling, and RTI, which is now MTSS. So what is MTSS? Let's see what others think. What do you think MTSS stands for? MTSS, I really have no idea. Okay, any guesses? So what is MTSS stand for if you had to guess? Pioneer school So this is what your mom does. Do you know what she does? Works at the ESU. And does what? Helps schools. All right, so I work for the ESU currently and I'm the MTSS coordinator. Okay, do you know what that means? Absolutely not. Do you have a guess? I can't even think of it. What do the letters MTSS stand for in mom's job? Do you know? Do you have a guess? No. All right, so I'm the MTSS coordinator at the ESU. Do you have any guesses of what MTSS would stand for? I have no idea. My guess would be men's team secret society. Well, that's a good guess. So we'll find out. MTSS stands for multi-tiered system of support. It's a framework that promotes an integrative system connecting all components of teaching and learning into a high quality standards-based instruction and intervention system that's matched to a student's academic, social, emotional and behavioral needs. For MTSS, the ESU provides training. I can provide classroom coaching in various ways and provide collaboration and support. For ILCD, I can provide resources for the targeted improvement plans and data analysis. It is up to your district on how much support you want for myself and the ESU. The services I provide are free of charge. Very passionate about the process of MTSS and how it can truly improve the directions of education and impact every student to learn the concepts he or she needs to know and to do their best. If you have any questions or comments or concerns, please feel free to contact me at the ESU at 402-887-5041. My extension is 1226 or email me at tairheart at esu8.org. So here's a pep talk. Let's stop being boring. Let's give students the support they need. We all need pep talk. Hey people, life isn't a serial year. We're on the 17th. I'm on your team. We have our team. This is night, people. You got air coming through your nose. You got heartbeat. That means it's time to do something. A poem. Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the road less traveled. It hurt, man. You look bad. What's your dream secret? I think you did better than me. I think that's how it goes. If you have a better dream than keep going, keep going, keep going, and keep going. What Michael Jordan had planned in high school? What if he quit when he didn't make the team? He would have never made Space Jam. And I'm running Space Jam. What will be your Space Jam? What will you create that will make the world awesome? Nothing if we keep sitting there. That's what I'm talking to you today. This is your time. This is my time. It's our time. We can make every day better for each other. If we're all on the same team, let's start acting like we've got work to do. We'll be proud of our own team and all of this. To supervise you, to give the world a reason to dance. Let's get to it.