Shelby Skaanes is an Educational Services Consultant with CORE. Shelby has been an educator for more than 25 years, working as a consultant since 2004. In this role, she provides professional development and technical assistance virtually and on-site across the northwest. Shelby’s consulting services in the last fifteen years have supported a number of educational organizations including the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington State, Idaho State Department of Education, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, Education Northwest, Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD), as well as numerous districts and schools across the northwest. Her primary areas of expertise are K-12 research-based literacy instruction, evidence-based interventions, assessment, and leadership support.

The last eight years of Shelby’s career have been focused on implementation of state specific standards, alignment of these standards to core instructional materials, data analysis of many widely used assessment systems, and the impact of this on the design and delivery of instruction and intervention support, K-12.