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Introducing Word Intelligence: Our New Innovative Vocabulary Program

CORE's newly designed vocabulary curriculum will be available in January 2012. Word Intelligence™: Developing Academic and Content Vocabulary is designed to increase struggling students’ vocabulary and improve their background knowledge and reading comprehension.

Aligned with Common Core State Standards related to vocabulary and language, Word Intelligence provides teachers with all the tools they need to explicitly teach struggling students and English learners important academic words, specific content words tied to U.S. and world history, and efficient word-learning strategies to apply to new words as they are encountered.

Development of the curriculum began when Stanford University, in collaboration with CORE and SRI International, received a grant from IES (Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education) to develop, pilot, and field-test a vocabulary program for struggling adolescent readers, including English learners. The curriculum, Word Intelligence: Developing Academic and Content Vocabulary, includes the explicit teaching of academic and content vocabulary tied to social studies content. CORE provided the curriculum development, implementation, and teacher training; SRI International conducted the data analysis and evaluation.

Many, if not most, adolescents who struggle with content-area reading comprehension can decode and even read with some fluency but lack vocabulary and background knowledge. The Word Intelligence curriculum is designed for those students. It fits comfortably into an added period of between 40 and 50 minutes to supplement a regular English class. All reading passages are from informational text, with passages linked to world history and U.S. history, in order to build knowledge.

Those who participated in the program's field study have seen positive outcomes. Hear what participants are saying.

Click here for more information and to see a sample of the Word Intelligence curriculum.

Free CORE Math Webinar - October 13, 2011!

Five Steps to Improve Your School’s Math Performance

We recognize the challenges that exist in improving math performance. Imagine seeing a sustainable change in this year’s test results!

There are five steps you can take right now to put and keep this year’s math teaching and learning on track for improvement by the end of the year. 

Join us to learn these five simple steps so you can experience immediate results—in months, not years.

What: A free, 45-minute webinar featuring CORE’s Director of Mathematics, Dean Ballard!

During this 45-minute webinar, we’ll help you understand how you can improve your school’s math performance by improving the effectiveness of your math teaching pedagogy. As a thank-you for attending our webinar, you will receive the tools to observe what’s going on in your classroom, define where gaps exist, and target your instruction.

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CORE Joins Oak Harbor Teachers in the Classroom

Oak Harbor School District, recent recipient of a $2.16 million grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) to improve reading for children in preschool through fifth grade, has selected Consortium on Reading Excellence (CORE) to train its teachers. The new reading emphasis will have an immediate impact on Oak Harbor elementary schools and preschools, with teachers coming for a week of intensive training before the start of the 2012-2013 school years. To read more click here.

CORE Leadership Summit 2012 - Register Today!

Register now to attend CORE's two-day Leadership Summit. Interact with prominent national education speakers; researchers in literacy, English learners, special education, and math; experts in leadership; specialists in Response to Instruction (RtI); and practitioners from around the nation. 

The CORE Leadership Summit 2012 features a track format! Participants select from the following tracks to gain knowledge on subjects relevant to their specific interests.

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CORE Partners with Lexia Learning

CORE has formed a new partnership with Lexia Learning to help school districts build capacity for effective instruction using proven tools such as Lexia Reading.

Lexia shares CORE's belief that great learning environments are built on a foundation of strong leadership, expert teaching and well-implemented, scientifically based programs. The presence of targeted training and support plays a important role in ensuring the success of every teacher, and CORE and Lexia are both dedicated to offering this critical support.

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CORE Partners with Assessment Technology Incorporated (ATI)

Assessment Technology Incorporated (ATI) and CORE, Inc. announce their partnership, offering districts an integrated model that supports successful school transformation. This partnership helps elevate student achievement with research- and experience-based methods. School districts can have confidence that their instructional improvement solutions are based on innovative and proven products and services that are supported with exceptional technical assistance. This model builds the capacity for effective instruction by laying a foundation of research-based knowledge, supporting the use of proven tools, and developing leadership.

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CORE Welcomes Claude Goldenberg, Ph.D. to Its Advisory Board - New!

CORE is pleased to announce the newest addition to its esteemed advisory board. Claude Goldenberg is currently Professor of Education at Stanford University. His many publications have appeared in academic and professional journals, and he has been on the editorial boards of Language Arts, The Elementary School Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, American Educational Research Journal, and Literacy, Teaching and Learning. His current projects focus on improving literacy achievement among English learners in elementary and middle school, language and literacy development among Mexican children in Mexico, and development of a measure of

Our National Advisory Board panel of experts keeps us current on best practices in literacy and math.

CORE Approved in TN as a Professional Development Provider

CORE has been approved by the Tennessee Department of Education as a Professional Development and Technical Assistance Provider in reading and English/language arts. CORE will assist the state’s persistently low-performing schools to improve academic performance in literacy by delivering support to those struggling schools. CORE will provide intensive on-site coaching, training in proven instructional strategies, and support to promote effective literacy implementation. 

For more information about working with CORE in Tennessee, please contact us.

CORE and Global Partnership Schools Approved as a Turnaround School Providers in Growing List of States and Districts - New!

CORE, partnering with Global Partnership Schools, was named by the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) as one of only 11 educational service providers that are eligible to assist with school transformation and turnaround efforts throughout the state. To read more click here.

CORE and Global Partnership were also named by the Colorado Department of Education as one of three turnaround school providers approved to help schools with all five areas of expertise sought by the state (organizational management and leadership, academic performance, learning environment, operations, and comprehensive planning). To read the full announcement from the Colorado Department of Education, please click here.

Other recent approvals include the State of Arizona Department of Edcuation, Baltimore City Public School District in MD, Detroit Public School District in MI, and Bridgeport Public School District in CT.

CORE and Global Partnership Schools will deliver support to struggling schools with intensive on-site coaching, proven instructional strategies, and structures to promote effective teaching and learning. This support is intended to produce successful school transformation and turnaround results at chronically low-performing schools across the nation.

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