CORE’s Director of Math, Dean Ballard, delivered a presentation, “Guided Investigations: Where Discovery Becomes Productive,” at the California STEAM Symposium. Download his handout and slides below. Presentation Description: Merge discovery, productive struggle, meaningful discourse and explicit instruction to maximize engagement, focus, and learning. Work with and hear about lessons that utilize analyzing physical data to create […]

CORE’s Director of Math, Dean Ballard, delivered a presentation, “Implementation of ELD Standards in Math Classrooms,” at the CMC (California Mathematics Council) South on October 28, 2017. Download his presentation below. DOWNLOAD POWERPOINT DOWNLOAD HANDOUT

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. […]

Oakland, CA – On May 22, 2017, the Pivot Learning Board of Directors approved the acquisition of CORE, Inc. through a generous gift from the founder and owner Bill Honig, as well as owners Catherine Honig and Linda Diamond. This gift brought together two of the longest tenured and most respected education service providers to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]