Irene Valdez is an Educational Services Consultant with CORE. Irene is a 30-year educator from Stockton, California. She worked in the Stockton Unified School District as a teacher, literacy specialist, and instructional coach. She specializes in K-6 Literacy and recently has been the coach at an Early Literacy Support Block grant school. Coaching and teaching SIPPS has been her most recent challenge and she is eager to help other schools make gains with this program.