Lani Mednick is an Implementation Manager with CORE Learning. Before this role, she was an Educational Services Specialist at CORE. Lani has served as an Assistant Principal of Instruction at a Title 1 school in Oakland. In that role, she supported her school with high-quality multi-tiered systems of support and SIPPS implementation, resulting in reading growth for students with unfinished learning. Before that, she co-designed, coached, and led an early literacy cohort across 16 sites in Oakland to create lasting systems of support to ensure all students are taught to read. Lani was also a classroom teacher and reading interventionist in Denver and the Bay Area and has taught TK–6th-grade students.

In addition to teaching, coaching, and administration, Lani has provided consulting services to many school sites and districts to support them in understanding the key components of structured literacy and the implications for implementation and instruction. She is a program facilitator with The Right to Read Project. Lani graduated from the education master’s program at the University of Colorado, Denver, where she focused on Urban Education & Leadership.