Lani Mednick is an Educational Services Specialist with CORE. For the previous two years, she served as an Assistant Principal of Instruction, with a focus on literacy and reading acquisition, at a Title 1 school in Oakland. There, she supported her school with high-quality MTSS and SIPPS implementation, which has resulted in as many as three grade levels of reading growth for struggling students. For the four years prior, Lani co-designed, coached and led an Early Literacy Cohort of 16 sites with the goal of creating lasting systems of support to ensure all students are taught to read. For seven years prior to coaching, Lani was a classroom teacher and reading interventionist in Denver and the Bay Area and has taught TK-6^th grade students.

In addition to teaching, coaching and administration, Lani has consulted with many school sites and districts towards understanding the key components of Structured Literacy and implications for implementation and instruction. She is a program facilitator with The Right to Read Project and is a graduate of the Education master’s program at the University of Colorado, Denver where she focused on Urban Education & Leadership.