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Reading Leader Institute, Elementary

Levels: K–6
Length: 3 days
Audience: Superintendents, district administrators, and school principals

Description

This institute equips district administrators, site administrators, and leadership teams with a solid understanding of the issues for leadership focused on program implementation. Participants practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students. The institute also includes research readings that focus on addressing pressing issues of equity and the achievement gap, and it can support any research-based program a district/school has adopted.

Participant Outcomes

• Understand the leadership issues that impact program implementation.
• Use data to identify what is working and who needs intervention.
• Create an intervention plan to keep the program on track to reach achievement goals.
• Implement grade-level meetings as tools to support achievement growth.

Reading Leader Practicum, Elementary

Levels: K–6
Length: 3–8 days recommended (combination of site work and workshops)
Audience: District and site administrators
Prerequisite: Must have attended a CORE Reading Leader Institute, Elementary or equivalent

Description

This series of support sessions and classroom visits provides district administrators and school leaders with practice using skills introduced at the Reading Leader Institute. These sessions combine additional professional development with discussion of instructional materials, analysis of assessment data, and actual visits to selected classrooms to observe and practice coaching and feedback.

Participant Outcomes

• Gain new skills essential to managing successful reading programs.
• Understand how to manage a seamless implementation in concert with reading team leaders.

Reading Coach Institute, Elementary

Levels: K–6
Length: 3 days
Audience: Teacher leaders and coaches
Prerequisite: Reading background desirable

Description

This institute, focused on technical coaching, is designed to prepare teacher leaders and coaches to support and facilitate literacy instruction in the classroom and to successfully implement research-based reading programs. Coaches learn to support literacy implementation at the site level. During this institute, content can be applied to widely used basal textbook series.

Participant Outcomes

• Guide and support effective instructional practice.
• Support teachers in their own classrooms.
• Help teachers collect and analyze assessment data.
• Facilitate grade-level meetings.
• Solve common problems before they hinder implementation.

Reading Coach Elementary Practicum

Levels: K–6
Length: For every five participants, 4 days of on-site follow-up preparation and practice
Audience: District coaches and others who support implementation through coaching and lesson models
Prerequisite: Participants must have attended a CORE Reading Coach Institute or equivalent

Description

For district clients, CORE staff facilitates regular support sessions following the Reading Coach Institute. CORE Educational Consultants mentor the coaches as they model lessons, and observe and debrief teachers. The practicum also helps coaches learn to analyze test data, facilitate on-site collaborative conversations, and develop solutions to implementation challenges. Practicum activities can focus on any research-based basal program a district/school has adopted.

Participant Outcomes

• Fully master skills and strategies for working with classroom teachers, including lesson modeling, classroom observation, and debriefing teachers.
• Practice assessment analysis skills and intervention planning.

Response to Instruction and Intervention Institute

Levels: K–12
Length: 3 days (ideally consecutive, but may be taken separately)
Audience: District leadership, site administrators, and special education staff

Description

This focused CORE institute is designed to lay the foundation for the implementation of a Response to Intervention or Response to Instruction (RtI) system for K–12. Participants at the three-day institute will learn what comprises the three tiers; what types of assessments are necessary to make this model work; how to determine core, supplemental, and intervention materials; and guidelines for establishing a problem-solving approach and setting up teams.

NOTE: This institute is designed for districts/schools new to RtI and multitier systems. Following this institute, and for schools/districts already knowledgeable about multitier models, CORE offers expert technical assistance on site to design and implement your own RtI system. Call for details.

Participant Outcomes

• Understand RtI and a three-tier model.
• Learn different assessment processes for different purposes.
• Understand the goal-setting process for monitoring students.
• Receive resources for a system for implementing a problem-solving approach.

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