GO-MTSS and GO-IEP: Working Together

GO-MTSS/SST and GO-IEP are two separate applications in SLDS maintained by the Georgia Department of Education to assist LEAs in tracking and collecting relevant information related to interventions being provided to identified students. If you are using GO-MTSS/SST and GO-IEP, they work together to integrate the two applications and allow data to feed from the GO-MTSS application to GO-IEP.


GO-MTSS

When a student is referred to special education, this should be documented as a recommendation in an SST meeting on the Complete Review Page of the SST form. The special education team will need to be notified of this referral so that the appropriate steps can be completed in the required timeframe. Generally, the students will continue to receive interventions after this referral until the student has been evaluated, found eligible, and services under an IEP have started. 


The student should not be exited from SST until IEP services begin. At the time the referral to special education is made, please be sure that the MTSS/SST information is thoroughly documented.

When the special education department is aware of the referral, someone will assign the student a case manager in GO-IEP. At that time, the student will have an active case in both applications. 


Information that you want to import from SST to IEP must be entered PRIOR to assigning a case manager in GO-IEP. Data not entered prior to that time will need to be manually entered in GO-IEP.  There is one exception to this on the GO-MTSS/SST Complete Interventions page which will be discussed later.



GO-IEP 

Assign the student to a case manager.



If a student has an active Tier III Intervention in GO MTSS/SST, then at the time of case manager assignment in GO-IEP, the following data will be prepopulated IF already entered in GO MTSS/SST.

  • Select information from the Student and School page
  • Parents/Guardians
  • GKIDS data added to the Assessment Data page
  • Documents loaded on the Documents tab


This is a screenshot of the Student and School Information page inside the Profile tab in GO-IEP. Much of the data is already prepopulated based on data reported to GaDOE in various reports. However, the green arrows show additional information that will be imported at the time of case manager assignment from GO-MTSS/SST to GO-IEP. Once imported the data is editable in GO-IEP and cannot be updated again from GO-MTSS. Information cannot be both editable and refreshable as this would cause an overwrite of edits made by users.


The Additional information checkboxes simply provide information that may be beneficial to know about the student. The STUDENT address on this page will also be pulled from GO-MTSS if it was entered in GO-MTSS.  In this screenshot, no address was entered in MTSS. 



This is a screenshot of the Parent/Guardian page inside the Profile tab in GO-IEP. All information entered in GO-MTSS will automatically be pulled into GO-IEP at the time of case manager assignment. Once imported the data is editable in GO-IEP and cannot be updated again from GO-MTSS. Data from each of these text boxes will be imported into GO-IEP including the PARENT address, phone #, email, relationship to the student, and primary language for each parent and whether an interpreter is needed. This information is entered individually for each parent. 



This is a screenshot of the Assessment page in the Profile tab in GO-IEP. If that information is shown, it will be imported to GO-IEP at the time of the case manager assignment. 



In GO-IEP, on the documents tab, there is a panel for SST Case Documents. All documents uploaded on the documents tab in GO-MTSS will be displayed at the time of the case manager assignment and can be opened here. 


This page will not refresh, so any documents added after the case manager assignment will not be visible in IEP unless they are uploaded again in IEP. 



When an Initial Eligibility meeting is started, the following data will be prepopulated in the eligibility form inside of GO-IEP if it has been entered in the forms in GO-MTSS prior to the case manager assignment inside of GO-IEP.



  • Developmental History
  • Student Data
  • Progress Monitoring



  • Case History
  • Student Data
  • Progress Monitoring
  • The first page of the SST form is the Developmental History. This is called Case History in GO-IEP. The questions are almost all the same and data will be prepopulated. We encourage users to update and complete this page in SST prior to referring the student to special education. 
  • The Student Data page has any formal or informal assessment data in multiple domains. We encourage users to update this page in SST and enter the date in any domain that has been assessed prior to referring the student to special education. 


The Progress Monitoring page in GO-MTSS allows users to monitor, update, and maintain a record of a student's response to interventions. This is the most critical page in SST. 


Data entered here will also feed to GO-IEP. Data that imports to GO-IEP is not editable but can be refreshed from GO-MTSS/SST. Interventions that were discontinued more than 6 months ago will not pull into GO-IEP. The Refresh Data from SST feature allows users to continue to monitor response to interventions from the time of the referral until the time of the Initial Eligibility and IEP meeting. During the evaluation period, the progress monitoring data is still being entered in GO-MTSS/SST and then refreshed in GO-IEP.