Vicki Weatherman has been teaching for the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, NV for the past twenty years. She earned her B.S. in Education in 1991 from the University of Nevada. Her M.S. in Education was awarded by Nova South Eastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL in 1995. Additionally, she has earned thirty-two credits of post-masters work in education, completing an Advanced Studies Certificate from Touro University in Nevada, in the area of Response to Interventions (RTI). Vicki began her teaching career at a multi-age school where she taught a class of first and second grade students. After seven years of work in the multi-age classroom, Vicki moved to Kirk L. Adams Elementary School, where she spent the next seven years teaching second grade. In 2006, Kirk Adams Elementary School created an RTI Facilitator position; Vicki has held this position since its inception. During the last six years of working with struggling students, Vicki realized that the overwhelming majority of struggling students are not learning disabled. She has found that there are simply gaps in their learning, or they are behind due to poor instruction and lack of intervention supports. Working with a dedicated team of educators, Vicki has successfully implemented a high-quality RTI program, including a multi-tiered instructional system that has been instrumental in the schoola (TM)s efforts to ensure all students are successful.
