Welcome to the Spring 2018 edition of the CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter!
The end of the school year is upon us! We hope that you have had a productive school year and feel proud of the learning that your students have accomplished.
In this edition’s Reading Expert column, we tackle some misconceptions about dyslexia that still are pervasive among educators.
In the Marvelous Mathematician, we address the importance of developing mathematical fluency and number sense together.
And finally, in the Leadership Corner, we discuss and provide resources related to the importance of a coherent, evidence-based, and standards-aligned curriculum for both literacy and mathematics.
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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, we clarify the differences between screening and evaluation of dyslexia.
In the Marvelous Mathematician, we continue our Part 1 article from the Fall 2017 edition of the Academic Quarterly to correlate the practices recommended in Visible Learning in Mathematics with the recommendations in the IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.
In the Leadership Corner, we feature a new national literacy center that is full of resources for schools and families.
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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 section, we summarize a recently published study by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), An Exploration of Instructional Practices that Foster Language Development and Comprehension: Evidence from Prekindergarten through Grade 3 in Title I Schools. For those of you who are Tim Shanahan fans, he is one of the authors.
In the Marvelous Mathematician, we correlate the practices recommended in Visible Learning for Mathematics with the recommendations in the IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.
In the Leadership Corner, we feature a series of webinars for effective principal practices.
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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.
In the Reading Expert, we conclude our ongoing conversation about reading intervention with a review of a recent report titled, “What is the evidence base to support reading interventions for improving student outcomes in grades 1-3?”
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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 addressed some advances in reading comprehension interventions. In this issue, we discuss some advances in interventions for word-level reading.
In the Marvelous Mathematician, we tackle moving math knowledge into students’ long-term memory.
In the CORE Leadership Corner, we promote a new website that provides independent curriculum review of a variety of ELA (grades 3-8) and math programs.
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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 interventions for reading comprehension.
In the Marvelous Mathematician column, we tackle addressing language barriers for English learners in mathematics.
The Leadership Corner provides four great resources for improving reading instruction.
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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 website from the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas, Austin, that has a wealth of resources to support implementation of RtI in your school or district.
Don’t forget to check out the math challenge in the Math Problem Corner!
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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.
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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 of relevant resources. CORE’s Math Director also discusses a process to build capacity and sustainability within math teams.
The Leadership Corner gives resources to help implement an RtI framework in secondary schools.
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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 Time with 1-9 is also highlighted.
The Leadership Corner covers a blog entry by Daniel Willingham, a noted cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia, regarding the relationship between instructional leadership and student performance.
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