Description: This introduction to PLCs (Professional Learning Communities) and RTI (Response to Intervention) provides an overview of PSD's ongoing efforts to improve student achievement at all levels. With an introduction by Superintendent Dr. Jerry Wilson, this program explains how the RTI multiered model of prevention and intervention will meet both the academic and behavioral needs of all students in Poudre School District. PLC's help implement the RTI model through frequent assessment and monitoring of learning. For all stakeholders- students, teachers, community members, parents and administrators- RTI asks the essential questions: Are our kids learning? How do we know that they are learning? And, most importantly, what are we prepared to do when they do not learn?”. This introduction also emphasizes not only the "need" for student success but for the "urgency" for students to achieve at all levels. Implementation of RTI is achieved through districtwide training and with success coaches at schools.
