Tier 3 or intensive, individualized intervention builds upon the quality and fidelity of Tier 1 and Tier 2.  The majority of schools don't realize it, but they lack a Tier 2 and don't have clear entrance/exit decision rules that support which students need what interventions.  This means that MTSS isn't implemented well, if at all.  Schools/teams focusing on Tier 3 often find it necessary to improve their Tier 2 systems as part of continual school improvement in order to better meet the needs of their most complex learners (National Center on Intensive Intervention 2022).  This course will help you do just that.  Please note that this course is for advanced-knowledge participants and it is highly recommended that beginner or intermediate-knowledge participants complete the Tier 2 Practices course first.  Upon completing this course, you will:

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• Define the Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity (Fuchs, Fuchs, & Malone, 2017) dimensions with an advanced level of depth.
  
  
• Evaluate an intervention platform, the first step in the Data-Based Individualization (DBI) process, by the Taxonomy dimensions.

• Use this evaluation of an intervention platform to inform "the map" (system to support the adults in matching intervention to targeted need).