CORE Annual Leadership Summit

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Investing in Academic Excellence

February 25–26, 2010
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
Burlingame, California

CORE's two-day Leadership Summit is the perfect opportunity to interact with prominent national literacy, English-language learner, special education, and math researchers; specialists in Response to Intervention (RtI); inspirational speakers; and successful practitioners from around the nation. CORE's speakers always reflect current research.

How can you invest your time and resources to ensure academic excellence for all students?
This year's theme, "Investing in Academic Excellence," addresses the need for educators and administrators to renew their commitment to investing in student success. Nationally recognized experts will provide relevant examples of what works to improve teaching and learning, so that the investment will lead to sustained academic achievement for future generations.

Who should attend?

Pre-K–12 school and district leadership teams
District and state literacy and math leaders
Building administrators
Literacy and math coaches and specialists
Response to Intervention implementers
Special education leadership and teachers
English learner practitioners

Speakers for the CORE Leadership Summit 2010

Keynote Speakers
Phyllis Hunter, President, Phyllis C. Hunter Consulting, Inc., National Literacy Advisory Board	A Twelve-Step Program for Educators: What We Know About What Works
Stevan Kukic, Ph.D., Vice President of Strategic Education Initiatives, Sopris West	Let's Get Serious: Together, We CAN Succeed!
Don Davis, Assistant Superintendent, Waterford Unified School District	Closing the Achievement Gap by Improving Instruction in the Core
Francie Alexander, Ed.D., Chief Academic Officer, Scholastic, Inc.	The Most Important 21st Century Skill: Literacy
David Chard, Ph.D., Dean, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Southern Methodist University	Helping Struggling Learners with Mathematical Reasoning

Selected Speakers, English Learners
María Elena Argüelles, Ph.D., Educational Consultant	English-Language Learners: Building Academic Language
Diane August, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Center for Applied Linguistics	Developing Academic Language Across the Content Areas in English-Language Learners
Kevin Feldman, Ed.D., Director of Reading and Early Intervention, Sonoma County Office of Education	Increasing Student Engagement: A Key to Improving Instruction Across Grades/Content Areas, or Learning Is NOT a Spectator Sport
Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., Adjunct Faculty, Secondary Education, San Francisco State University	Bolstering Academic Language Proficiency for ALL Learners Through Explicit Instruction and Precision Partnering
Shane Templeton, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies, Department of Educational Specialties, University of Nevada, Reno Generative	Vocabulary Instruction, Grades 4–12: Teaching Core Academics and Content-Specific Academic Vocabulary to Native-Speaking and English Learners

Selected Speakers, Literacy and At-Risk Students
Anita L. Archer, Ph.D., Educational Consultant	Explicit Instruction: An Investment with Guaranteed Returns
Lou Denti, Ph.D., Lawton Love Distinguished Professor in Special Education, Director of the Center for Reading Diagnosis and Instruction, California State University, Monterey Bay	Collaboration and Co-teaching at the Secondary Level: Strategies, Stories, and Steps for Implementation
Doug Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of Language and Literacy Education, San Diego State University	Talking in School: Why Student-to-Student Interaction Matters
John Shefelbine, Ph.D., Professor of Education and Co-director of the California Reading and Literature Project, Sacramento State University	Motivation: The Missing State Standard
Julie Washington, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair, Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Language and Literacy Skills of Low-Income African American Children: Creating Strong Readers

Selected Speakers, RtI
Scott Baker, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center on Teaching and Learning, University of Oregon	Illuminating the Black Box of Effective Instruction: Why Robust Evaluations Are Essential in Understanding Why Interventions Work . . . or Don't
Laura Hamilton, M.Ed., Consultant, Safe & Civil Schools	An RtI Continuum of Behavior Supports: Meeting the Needs of ALL Students
Mark Shinn, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the School Psychology Program, National-Louis University	Improving Scientifically Based Progress Monitoring and Screening in RtI
Dave Tilly, M.Ed., Director, Innovation and Accountability, Heartland Area Education Agency	Nailing the Pendulum to the Wall: System-Level RtI Issues

Selected Speakers, Math
Harold Asturias, Director for the Center for Mathematics Excellence, University of California, Berkeley, and Patrick Callahan, Ph.D., Mathematician in Residence, University of California Office of the President	Critical Tools for Improving Mathematics Education
Joan Easterday, Mathematics Program Coordinator, Sonoma County Office of Education, and Doreen Heath Lance, Regional Director, Mathematics, Sonoma County Office of Education	The CORE Math Academy: Improving Arithmetic and Algebraic Teaching and Learning

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"Thank you for your professionalism, help, caring, and support. I really appreciate your priorities, your knowledge base, and your coaching 'style.' Your work has helped Fair Oaks better implement reading and ELD instruction. I look forward to all that we will collectively continue to accomplish next year."

– Patricia McRae, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction,
Redwood City School District, CA

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