Karin Wanless is an Educational Services Consultant with CORE. As the lead reading intervention specialist in a low-income elementary school in California, she teaches all levels of SIPPS to struggling readers. She’s passionate about all students finding joy in reading, and to achieve this goal, she utilizes SIPPS for its systematic, comprehensive approach to foundational reading skills. She runs a continuous cycle of data collection and analysis of SIPPS Mastery Tests to collaboratively form evidence-based, flexible, targeted intervention groups and also small groups for classroom teachers. She mentors intervention and classroom teachers with intensive, personalized coaching to strengthen teacher practice and to improve student learning in SIPPS, focusing on fidelity to routines and procedures and responsiveness to students’ needs.

A bilingual teacher for over 20 years, Ms. Wanless has held various teaching positions which include classroom teacher, bilingual resource teacher, and after school program coordinator in elementary and middle schools. Additionally, she has tutored women in prison and teen mothers in reading and writing. She earned her bilingual teaching credential, her M.A. in Education, and her B.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies with a minor in journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was awarded the Santa Cruz County Reading Association Celebrate Literacy Award, 2008-09, for her work in developing a new middle school library, which was responsive to students’ reading levels, interests, and cultures.