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CORE Announces National Literacy Events, Winter and Spring 2008–09 - NEW!
Accelerate achievement and close the achievement gap! CORE’s national institutes and workshops target the needs of adolescent readers and K–12 Response to Intervention (RtI) implementation.
Adolescent Literacy Coach Institute
November 6–7, 2008
Berkeley, CA
The two-day Adolescent Literacy Coach Institute is designed for teacher leaders, department heads, and literacy coaches serving middle and high schools. Participants learn to support literacy implementation across content areas and within reading and intervention classrooms.
Click here for more information. Register for this event.
RtI: Response to Instruction and Intervention Institute
December 10–12, 2008
Chicago, IL
March 25–27, 2009
Seattle, WA
This three-day institute is designed to lay the foundation for the implementation of a Response to Intervention or Response to Instruction (RtI) system for K–12. Participants learn what comprises the three tiers; what types of assessments are necessary to make this model work; how to determine core, supplemental, and intervention materials; and guidelines for establishing a problem-solving approach and setting up teams.
Click here for more information. Register for Chicago event. Register for Seattle event.
Adolescent Literacy Solutions Workshop
January 22–23, 2009
Honolulu, HI
The Adolescent Literacy Solutions Workshop includes two strands, each two days. Select the strand that best meets your needs:
CORE Intensive Intervention Series—Strand A: Decoding Instruction and Fluency Development: This two-day series addresses the needs of adolescent students who lack basic reading proficiency.
CORE Academic Literacy Series—Strand B: Vocabulary Development and Comprehension Strategies and Text Structures: This two-day series focuses on enhancing vocabulary knowledge and comprehension proficiency.
Click here for more information. Register for this event.
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CORE Announces CORE Leadership Summit 2009
If there is one conference you don't want to miss, this is it. Mark your calendar now for CORE's annual Leadership Summit, this year featuring reading, writing, and math! The theme is Achieving Excellence: Raising the Ceiling and Closing the Gaps. The Summit will be held February 26-27, 2009, in Burlingame, California.
This two-day event is the perfect opportunity to interact with prominent national literacy and math researchers, inspirational speakers, and successful practitioners from around the nation. CORE's speakers always reflect current research.
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CORE Announces the Publication of the Highly Acclaimed Teaching Reading Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
CORE is pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd Edition of the best-selling resource for teaching reading and language arts, the Teaching Reading Sourcebook, by authors Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, and Linda Gutlohn.
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CORE Announces the Publication of Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures, 2nd Edition
For educators who are working to improve the reading achievement of both beginning and older struggling readers, this updated and revised edition of the popular Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures is an indispensable resource. It is an essential addition to any educator's personal literacy library—elementary, secondary, university.
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CORE Sees Ongoing Test Score Improvements in Hawaii Elementary School
Students at Ala Wai Elementary School, a once-struggling elementary school in Honolulu, continue to make surprising gains in their reading test scores. The latest score reports show that 70% of the second and third grade students are meeting benchmarks in oral reading fluency.
Read the full announcement » | Ala Wai named a 2008 Hawaii Distinguished School »
A Partnership for Secondary Success: The Pasadena Story
Learn how CORE along with the Stupski Foundation was an integral part of the success in the Pasadena secondary schools.
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