CORE Leadership Summit 2009

Achieving Excellence: Raising the Ceiling and Closing the Gaps

February 26-27, 2009
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
Burlingame, California

Registration fee: $460 per person. Save $35 when you register before November 21. An additional discount applies to groups of 10 or more!

For more information: 888-249-6155, ext. 126

CORE's two-day Leadership Summit is the perfect opportunity to interact with prominent national literacy, English-language learner, special education, and math researchers; specialists in Response to Intervention (RtI); inspirational speakers; and successful practitioners from around the nation. CORE's speakers always reflect current research.

How can we help all students achieve excellence?

This year's theme, "Achieving Excellence: Raising the Ceiling and Closing the Gaps," addresses both literacy and mathematics for the first time. Nationally recognized experts will speak to the need to not only close achievement gaps, but also set higher expectations for all students, so that closing gaps doesn't mean watering down the curriculum.

Who should attend?

K-12 school and district leadership teams
District and state literacy and math leaders
Principals
Literacy and math coaches and specialists
Response to Intervention implementers
Special education leadership and teachers
English-language learner practitioners

Speakers for the CORE Leadership Summit 2009

Keynote Speakers
Lynn Fielding, a Director of Kennewick School District and Co-author of The 90% Reading Goal, Delivering on the Promise, and Annual Growth for All Students, Catch-up Growth for Those Who Are Behind, and Greg Fancher, Assistant Superintendent, Kennewick School District	Annual Growth for All Students, Catch-up Growth for Those Who Are Behind
Stevan Kukic, Ph.D., Vice President of Strategic Education Initiatives, Sopris West	Conquering the Conundrum: We Can Choose to Achieve Better Results . . . NOW!
Liping Ma, Ph.D., Independent Scholar and Author of Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics	The Learning of Fractions: How Can It Be Built on the Learning of Whole Numbers?
Louisa Moats, Ed.D., Consultant Advisor for Literacy Research and Professional Development, Sopris West, and Author of LETRS	Still Wanted: Teachers with Knowledge of Language
Glenn Singleton, President, Pacific Educational Group, and Author of Courageous Conversations About Race: A Strategy for Achieving Equity in Schools	Breaking the Silence: Ushering in Courageous Conversation About the Impact of Race on Student Achievement

Selected Speakers, Literacy and English Learners
María Elena Argüelles, Ph.D., Educational Consultant	Vocabulary Instruction and Language Development for English-Language Learners
Kevin Feldman, Ed.D., Director of Reading and Early Intervention, Sonoma County Office of Education	Engaging ALL Learners: The Key to Improving Academic Literacy
Doug Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of Language and Literacy Education, San Diego State University	Seize the Data: Allowing Assessment to Drive Instruction
Elfrieda ("Freddy") Hiebert, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley	Strategic Vocabulary Selection: Choosing Words from Narrative and Informational Texts
Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., Adjunct Faculty, Secondary Education, San Francisco State University	Bolstering Academic Oral Language Proficiency for English Learners Through Structured Classroom Interaction
Linda Mason, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Pennsylvania State University	Self-Regulated Writing Strategies for Developing Writers, Grades 2-6 and Self-Regulated Writing Strategies for Adolescents Who Struggle with Writing, Grades 6-12
John Shefelbine, Ph.D., Professor of Education and Co-director of the California Reading and Literature Project, Sacramento State University	Words Correct per Minute as a Measure of Fluency: Easily Calculated, Easily Misunderstood Instructionally
Frank Smith, M.A., Literacy Consultant, Stanislaus County Office of Education	Universal Design for Universal Proficiency
Shane Templeton, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies, Department of Educational Specialties, University of Nevada, Reno, and Dianna Townsend, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies, Department of Educational Specialties, University of Nevada, Reno	Engaging Secondary Students in Writing: Academic and Alternative Contexts for Success
Susan Van Zant, Ed.D., Senior Educational Consultant, CORE	Words for Academic Writing: Vocabulary Across the Curricula
Julie Washington, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair, Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Language, Literacy, and the Academic Achievement Gap

Selected Speakers, RtI
David Chard, Ph.D., Dean, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Southern Methodist University	Making RtI Work in Mathematics
Kenneth Howell, Ph.D., Professor, Special Education, Western Washington University	Curriculum-Based Evaluation: How About a Little More Problem Solving and a Lot Less Testing?
Stevan Kukic, Ph.D., Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Sopris West	Conquering the Conundrum: We Can Choose to Achieve Better Results . . . NOW!
Mark Shinn, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the School Psychology Program, National-Louis University	Building an RtI Delivery System Tied to Early Intervening Services
Jim Whitaker, M.Ed., Educational Consultant, Safe and Civil Schools	Positive Behavior Support and Creating a Response to Intervention Continuum of Services

Selected Speakers, Math
David Chard, Ph.D., Dean, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Southern Methodist University	Making RtI Work in Mathematics
Michele Douglass, Ph.D., President, MD School Solutions	Building Success Through Manipulative- Based Instruction
Russell Gersten, Ph.D., Executive Director, Instructional Research Group	Implications of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report for Mathematics Instruction
Patricia Herzig, Math Consultant, Sopris West	A System Approach to RtI in Mathematics

To view selected presentations from the CORE Leadership Summit 2008, click here.