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Plainfield 202 narrows focus on classroom instruction as MTSS work expands
Summary
District leaders described a year of work to strengthen multi‑tiered systems of support (MTSS), starting with core Tier‑1 instruction improvements and planning districtwide Tier‑2 and Tier‑3 intervention tracking in the Embrace system; the effort emphasizes formative assessment, teacher professional development and progress monitoring.
Plainfield SD 202 administrators told the Board committee on May 14 that the district is concentrating MTSS efforts on improving Tier‑1 classroom instruction while building consistent Tier‑2 and Tier‑3 intervention processes across schools.
“Tier 1 is often represented by a triangle,” Michelle Imburdino told the committee, summarizing the district push to make core instruction stronger and more consistent so fewer students require intensive interventions. “We found post pandemic, as you've seen in a lot of our academic data, our students are struggling. When you're talking about a significant number of students that are struggling, it's not necessarily that we're gonna take 70% of our students and put all of them into an intervention. We needed to make some adjustments in…
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