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Leadership Corner Spring 2021

The National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) recently published Intensifying Literacy Instruction: Essential Practices to help “increase the capacity of practitioners and educational leaders to support a broad range of learners who need more literacy supports to become skilled readers and writers by identifying a set of essential practices that are research-supported and should be the focus of professional development.” CORE”s Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Dale Webster provides a summary.

By Dale Webster, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer, CORE, Inc.

Marvelous Mathematician Spring 2021

Addressing unfinished teaching and learning is expected to be among the greatest challenges going into the next school year. Much of this missing knowledge is necessary for ongoing grade-level work. For that reason, we must address this need systematically and sufficiently. The Marvelous Mathematician offers recommendations for how to identify learning needs and prioritize them so all students build their mathematical proficiency.

By Dean Ballard, Director of Mathematics, CORE, Inc.

Reading Expert Spring 2021

Increases in the percentages of students reading below benchmark can easily overtax school resources. When planning for the 2021–22 school year, schools must be prepared to provide high-quality Tier 1 reading instruction. In this article, the Reading Expert provides recommended practices to leverage foundational skills instruction.

By Carrie Thomas Beck, Director of Literacy, CORE, Inc.

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