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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 […]

Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! This issue’s Reading Expert features a journal article review covering research to help English learners meet the Common Core State Standards for literacy in science. The Marvelous Mathematician discusses how to go beyond good question-asking to engage students in math discourse. CORE’s new supplemental math resource, Spend Some […]

Welcome to the new CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! CORE is proud to announce our new quarterly client newsletter, combining the CORE Reading Expert, the CORE Marvelous Mathematician and introducing our new Leadership Corner. In our inaugural issue, the Reading Expert introduces the first book in a series highlighting a synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses related to educational […]

Read CORE founder Linda Diamond’s Ed Week commentary on the Common Core A new disorder seems to have swept the nation: Common Core State Standards Syndrome. This malady is characterized by sharply polarized positions—worshiping the common core as schools’ salvation, or condemning it as on the path to Armageddon. The clinical manifestation is similar: op-eds in […]

CORE was pleased to have author and consultant Dr. Anita Archer conduct a training about Common Core State Standards on March 3-4, 2014. Her presentation from both days as well as additional resources are available.