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Welcome to the Winter 2017 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! In this second of a two-part series on reading interventions, we will continue the discussion around new developments in the intervention research and how they can be applied to the work in your schools. In the Reading Expert section of the Fall 2016 issue, we […]

Clear Instruction + Engagement = Math Fun (By Dean Ballard, CORE’s Director of Mathematics) I was working in a school district near Seattle a few weeks ago, doing math professional learning in the form of lesson studies in middle school math classes. Super fun time. In one sixth grade class I was teaching a lesson […]

Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! In the Reading Expert column of this issue, you will find the first of a two-part series on reading interventions, where we discuss some new developments in the intervention research and how this can be applied to your schools. In this issue, we address some advances in […]

From Education Week States and school districts that get federal funding to support students who are English-language learners, can use that money to support long-term ELLs and ELLs in special education, as well as to help figure out how those students are progressing, according to new Every Student Succeeds Act guidance released by the U.S. […]

Congratulations to CORE’s partner school district Lake Washington School District in Redmond, Washington, for receiving state recognition for 25 out of 258 schools statewide! Click here to read the district’s community announcement.

We are excited to announce that CORE has partnered with Center for the Collaborative Classroom to deliver professional development in California for the 2016-2017 school year. This partnership builds on Collaborative Classroom’s literacy programs and CORE’s long-term commitment to implementation support services that help customers build their own capacity for effective instruction by laying a […]

South Carolina’s Read to Succeed (R2S) was enacted to ensure that all South Carolina students become strong readers, capable of understanding complex text. The requirements are designed to equip all teachers with the knowledge and competencies necessary to be effective teachers of reading. As an approved professional development provider of the R2S Foundations in Reading […]

With $500 million available to schools, about $1,400 per teacher, California schools and districts have an excellent opportunity to improve teacher effectiveness and ensure your students meet the challenging CA Common Core Standards. CORE can help you maximize and use your SB-77 funds. Click here to see how CORE can help you maximize and use your SB-77 […]

We’re extremely proud of the hard work all three CORE Colorado Early Literacy grant sites have done to meet all their required state goals. Lamar schools saw students with Significant Reading Deficiency decreasing from 14.6% spring of 2013 to 6.42% spring of 2015. In Delta County, Lincoln Elementary started in 2013 with 116 students at the intensive […]

Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! In this issue, in the Reading Expert column you will find a review of a very informative book on preventing and overcoming reading difficulties. Also, don’t miss the Marvelous Mathematician column, which discusses student learning trajectories. The Leadership Corner provides a great resource for RtI: a new […]

Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! This issue’s Reading Expert focuses on strategies to support syntax instruction . The Marvelous Mathematician discusses three approaches for developing numerical fluency. And, the Leadership Corner covers a new resource to help principals guide their schools to better teaching and learning. DOWNLOAD NEWSLETTER To receive future editions of this newsletter […]

National Council on Teacher Quality’s 2014 Review of teacher preparation programs rated the CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook as one of the top ten for meeting all elements for teaching reading and top five most commonly used in teacher preparation programs. DOWNLOAD THE READING PROGRAM REVIEW     DOWNLOAD THE TEACHER PREPARATION REVIEW

Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! This issue’s Reading Expert offers an in-depth look at how California’s recently adopted English Language Arts/English Language Framework helps translate Common Core standards to a coherent and sequenced curriculum for all students. The Marvelous Mathematician discusses how to facilitate meaningful discourse in the mathematics classroom with a list […]

Aligned with Common Core State Standards related to vocabulary and language, Word Intelligence provides teachers with all the tools they need to explicitly teach struggling students and English learners important academic words, specific content words tied to U.S. and world history, and efficient word-learning strategies to apply to new words as they are encountered. Many, […]

CORE’s CCSS Reading Foundational Skills Instructional DVD and New Multiple Measures Reporting Forms! Common Core State Standards Series: Foundation Skills for Teaching Reading is a three-video set aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and designed to provide educators with an understanding of the linguistic underpinnings of learning to read and two critical foundational […]