Mike Mattos

Mike Mattos

Mike Mattos is an internationally recognized author, presenter, and practitioner. He co-created the RTI at Work™ model, which builds on the foundation of the PLC at Work™ process by using team structures and a focus on learning, collaboration, and results to drive successful outcomes. Mike is also a thought leader in professional learning communities and the PLC at Work® process, advancing the work of his mentors Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker. In 2024, the Global Gurus organization recognized him as one of the thirty most influential educational thought leaders in the world.

Mike is proud of the twenty-three years he served on-site as a history teacher and, later, an administrator. He is the former principal of Marjorie Veeh Elementary School and Pioneer Middle School in Tustin, California. At both schools, Mike helped create powerful PLCs, improving learning for all students. In 2004, Marjorie Veeh, an elementary school with a large population of youth at risk, won the California Distinguished School and National Title I Achieving School awards.

A National Blue Ribbon School, Pioneer is among only 13 schools in the US selected by the GE Foundation as a Best-Practice Partner and is one of eight schools chosen by Dr. Richard DuFour to be featured in the video series The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Bringing the Big Ideas to Life. Based on standardized test scores, Pioneer ranks among the top 1 percent of California secondary schools and, in 2009 and 2011, was named Orange County's top middle school. For his leadership, Mike was named the Orange County Middle School Administrator of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators.

Mike has coauthored many best-selling books focused on multitiered systems of supports (MTSS) and PLCs, including Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work; Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work; Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles; Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn; Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions: Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma; It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Secondary School; It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School; Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Secondary; Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Elementary; and The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community.

PLC at Work^®

PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.

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RTI at Work™

RTI at Work experts focus on learning for all students and will empower you to build your own timely, targeted, and systematic intervention program. Work with them to implement a results-driven program that provides targeted instruction at all tiers of intervention.

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Presentations by Mike Mattos

• Endless Possibilities
• Beyond Buy-In: Creating Consensus and Ownership in a PLC
• PLCs and RTI: How to Build the Foundation for Effective Systematic Interventions
• Convergent Assessment: Universal Screening, Formative Assessment, and Progress Monitoring in a Secondary RTI Program
• Filling the Cracks: How to Create a Systematic Intervention Program
• Putting It All Together: Examining a Model Secondary RTI Program
• Learning CPR: Creating Powerful Responses When Students Don’t Learn
• Where the Rubber Hits the Road
• It’s Just “Ed”: A Practical Look at Response to Intervention
• Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?
• On Solid Ground: How PLC Practices Create the Foundation for a Successful RTI Program

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