CORE University

CORE University Lets You Obtain a CORE Literacy Expert Degree with Our 3-Step Program

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Expand the capacity of your reading coaches and seasoned reading educators by increasing their skills in literacy improvement. CORE University will equip your own professionals with the expertise that CORE is known for, while minimizing the need for prolonged outside assistance.

Prerequisite: Participants must have previous training in the five basic reading components (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension).

Step 1: Literacy Improvement Expert Course — 5 Days

Select key literacy staff to attend our initial five-day Literacy Improvement Expert Course with our nationally renowned literacy leaders. Your “Experts-in-Training” will join a special professional learning network to develop critical skills and gain the knowledge necessary to initiate literacy improvement using your selected core and intensive curricula.

Course of Study:

Initiating Literacy Improvement

• Define pedagogy and lead district/school improvement
• Understand the coaching framework
• Drive assessment-based, informed instruction
• Implement successful collaboration and data analysis
• Facilitate ongoing, site-based professional learning
• Adopt best practices that will maximize achievement

The Curriculum Intensive – Becoming a Content Expert

• Conduct program-based lesson studies
• Practice key routines and strategies
• Analyze curriculum-embedded assessments
• Differentiate instruction and implement RtI
• Access and utilize program- and technology-based resources
• Plan and deliver model lessons

Step 2: Guided Apprenticeship — 6 Days at a Central Location in Your District (Per District Team of 2-5 People)

Following the five-day intensive training course, your literacy “Experts-in-Training” will be mentored and supported as they lead literacy improvement focused on program implementation in your schools. CORE national leaders will spend six days providing direct support at a central location in your district over the course of the year, two days at a time: fall, winter, and spring. During these visits, in addition to focused support of CORE U participants, the CORE consultant will facilitate collaborative work sessions with district and building leadership focused on solutions to implementation challenges. As CORE U participants, your “Experts-in-Training” will have ongoing access to multiple online resources, events, and their professional learning network peers. For districts training more than five participants in an in-district or state model, the number of total on-site apprenticeship days will be adjusted.

On-site Apprenticeship:

• Observation of the “Experts-in-Training”
• Mentored demonstration lessons
• Program implementation assessment
• Data study, analysis, and collaboration
• Troubleshooting implementation challenges
• Co-led principal walk-throughs
• Co-facilitated workshops utilizing the CORE Online Learning Library

Step 3: Graduate a CORE Expert — 5 Days

Your “Experts-in-Training” will rejoin their professional learning network in a five-day winter graduation retreat designed to strengthen and solidify their skills and expertise in order to become the literacy leaders you need. This graduation retreat will be held in conjunction with the nationally renowned CORE Leadership Summit held annually in February.

Graduation Retreat:

• Collaborate with fellow experts to troubleshoot and solve seemingly intractable implementation issues
• Hear nationally recognized researchers and speakers in the field of literacy
• Develop skills to sustain and increase effectiveness during collaboration and data study
• Conduct a program review to pinpoint assessment-driven, high-yield instruction, routines, and strategies
• Share and increase techniques to differentiate instruction
• Strengthen and demonstrate program expertise
• Collaborate, share, and expand demonstration lesson repertoire

CORE University Also Includes:

• 1-year individual CORE Membership (per participant)
• 3 one-hour webinar workshops
• 10 hours of online consultation with your CORE Mentor
• “Experts-in-Training” Professional Learning Network Newsbriefs
• Access to the CORE Online Learning Library (two libraries per participant)
• University credit available for additional fee
• Special status and breakout sessions during the CORE Leadership Summit

To hold a CORE University on-site in your district, please contact us. This dynamic program can transform your entire team of reading specialists.

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