Welcome to the Winter 2018 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! Spring is in the air! We at CORE hope that your school year has gone well and the upcoming testing period and the end of the school year (fast approaching) will go smoothly. In this issue of the Academic Quarterly, in the Reading Expert section, […]

Welcome to the Fall 2017 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! The cool nights of autumn are upon us. We at CORE hope that your school year has started off well and the year ahead will be full of learning, fun, and new horizons. In this issue of the Academic Quarterly, in the Reading Expert […]

Welcome to the Spring 2017 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! In the Leadership Corner section, we provide an overview of an excellent new book, The Internal Coherence Framework, which presents a systemic approach for developing the conditions for continuous improvement in schools. In the Marvelous Mathematician, we address the importance of teaching math vocabulary. […]

CORE’s Excellence in Education Blog post this month is on the impact of the Supreme Court’s Unanimous Ruling on Special Education, setting a higher standard for students with disabilities. Interested in more great professional insights on Special Education? Check out this CORE webinar: SEL and IDEA – Social Emotional Learning and Special Education

A recent study published by the The Aspen Institute stresses the importance of integrating curriculum into professional learning and teacher training. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has written a good review on the report, which aligns with CORE’s approach that teacher training should be connected to curriculum. READ THE REPORT To receive future editions of the CORE Excellence in […]

CORE’s Excellence in Education Blog post this month chronicles one district’s journey toward a sustained and deep commitment to reading professional learning and development. See what can happen when a district and CORE work together to provide reading professional learning to support teachers and administrators across a system.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]