Nuts & Bolts: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support A Basic Guide to Implementing Preventative Practice in Our Schools & Community

Nuts & Bolts is your question and answer handbook/app to everything MTSS! This e-book utilizes an interactive interface that allows users to readily access online resources, obtain video guidance, and even consult further with experts in the areas of RtI, PBIS, social and emotional deficits, learning disabilities, and suicide prevention (PREVIEW NUTS & BOLTS HERE: Nuts & Bolts Book Website with Previews).

Nuts and Bolts is not just an e-book.   It is an app designed for the “on-the-go” educator, administrator, or mental health service provider whose time is limited by the ongoing demands of their professional duties. Nuts & Bolts is largely written in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format. Readers are able to access information revolving around progress monitoring, computer adaptive tests, and interventions/programs across the social, emotional, and behavioral domains. Central to Nuts and Bolts is the book’s dedication to best evidence-based practices and exploration of the MTSS process in a user-friendly format; Flow-charts tailored to each tier, links to online resources, video guidance, and an extensive review of social-emotional programs makes this resource vital to any professional seeking to navigate preventative practices in their schools and community.  With video guidance and resources all at your fingertips, implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support could not have been made simpler!

Multiple Tiers covered include:

• attendance
  
• RtI
• PBIS
• Social-emotional
• Suicide prevention.  
  

PREVIEW NUTS & BOLTS HERE: Nuts & Bolts Book Website with Previews

Gary Schaffer is a School Psychologist and author of the book Nuts & Bolts: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support: A Basic Guide to Implementing Preventative Practice in Our Schools and Community. Gary currently is employed by the NYS Office of People with Developmental Disabilities and Frontier Central School District. Additionally, he provides counseling and assessment services for the NYS Office of Mental Health and Erie County Medical Center. He received his B.A. degree in Special Education and English and M.S./C.A.S. degree in School Psychology from Niagara University in Niagara University, NY. He is a past recipient of the New York Association of School Psychologists’ (NYASP) Ted Bernstein Award and currently serves on the NYASP Board. In June, 2015, Gary met with national House and Senate members in Washington, DC to support the inclusion of childhood mental health and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). He continues to advocate locally and at the state level for the expansion of children's mental health services. He has previously published for the Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development, Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability, and the New York School Psychologist. At present, Gary is leading a national study analyzing motivational factors and compensatory strategies of high school, post-secondary, and college alumni with High Functioning Autism. He has presented to the New York State School Boards Association, Special Education Task Force, and at numerous New York Association of School Psychologists' state conference on topics ranging from test anxiety to MTSS. His research interests include Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, post-secondary transition for students with disabilities, school and community-based mental health, living with ADHD and SLD, and developmental disabilities.  He can be reached for district/organizational consult and presentations at geschaffer@gmail.com.