Remote Professional Learning Services
How instruction is delivered has changed dramatically this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but the foundations of effective teaching remain the same. Whether your school is providing instruction in person, remotely or using a hybrid approach, remote professional learning is a flexible, accessible way to build teachers’ knowledge and skills.
Remote Consulting Services
10 hours of consulting completely customized to your team’s specifics needs
From transitioning to strong remote instruction to improving the use of data to drive instructional decisions, CORE Educational Consultants will work with your team to address your site’s specific goals, challenges and capacity building needs around English Language Arts or mathematical curriculum implementation and effective instruction. Remote consulting is offered in blocks of as little as 10 hours as a stand-alone service or can be packaged with any of our workshops. Choose from our selection of consulting services or customize the time with your CORE Educational Consultant to focus on your unique areas of need. Consulting time with a CORE Educational Consultant can be a great way to support coaches, principals and/or teachers in monthly sessions unpacking your curriculum or data.
Remote site support sessions are crucial planning opportunities to identify specific implementation issues and plan for organization, resources, and support needs. A CORE Educational Consultant initiates or reviews your comprehensive school or district literacy and/or mathematics plan, including organization of instruction, implementation of a multi-tiered model, student grouping, time allocations, materials, personnel usage, and planned staff development. Collaborative planning can focus on the needs of underrepresented students in literacy and math and students with special needs, including students with dyslexia. This service includes how to deliver services remotely.
A CORE Educational Consultant works with individuals or small groups of teachers to provide coaching on implementing effective instructional techniques remotely. The working sessions can be structured in one of three ways.
- CORE Consultants work with teachers to plan how to deliver units and lessons effectively remotely, provide models of instruction, and resolve implementation issues.
- CORE Consultants utilize remote observation and feedback. Remote observation may occur live or via the teacher voluntarily recording video footage during virtual or in class student instruction and submitting that to the CORE consultant for review. The CORE Consultant then meets remotely with the teacher (s) to discuss feedback and next steps. FERPA regulations will be closely adhered to. Other district/school participants can participate for collaborative discussions and feedback.
- A CORE Consultant teaches a small group of students remotely while others observe. This is done using your own curriculum.
A CORE Consultant works with local coaches (and other teacher leaders) to provide remote and face-to-face support for teachers. The CORE Consultant will collaborate with coaches prior to sessions with teachers, review the purpose and plan for actions, include the coach in sessions with teachers, debrief with coaches after sessions with teachers and plan follow-up. As the coaches model lessons, observe and debrief teachers, conduct data study sessions, and analyze test data, the CORE Consultant provides feedback and mentoring. The CORE Consultant also assists the coaches to facilitate collaborative conversations and develop solutions to curriculum implementation challenges. The goal is to build the expertise of coaches and teacher leaders.
The CORE Consultant provides personal and collaborative coaching sessions to school administrators that combine professional development with a discussion of instructional materials. The leadership coaching can focus on an analysis of remote visits to selected classrooms to monitor curriculum and instruction implementation. The CORE Consultant works closely with site administrators to ensure they understand how the instructional program is designed, what effective implementation of a core curriculum and supplemental intervention programs looks like, and how to use observation data to leverage improved achievement. Through regular facilitated remote sessions, the CORE Consultant supports the site leadership to have the knowledge, tools, and confidence to lead sustained literacy and mathematics improvement efforts.
Regular use of assessment data can make planning for instruction and intervention dramatically more effective. A CORE Consultant provides assistance in the use of assessment instruments, even remotely, including screening, progress-monitoring, diagnostic, and outcome measures. The CORE Consultant will address both Curriculum Based Measures (CBM) and curriculum-embedded assessments. Through remote meetings, the CORE Consultant works closely with site administrators, curriculum specialists, coaches, and teachers to show them how to analyze the data to: (a) plan student groupings for core instruction and specific interventions; (b) set goals for student growth; and (c) determine the effectiveness of the instruction. This data study will be integral to special education and IEP goal setting.
CORE’s curriculum specialists have expertise in many commercial English Language Arts and mathematical core and supplemental curricula. These sessions focus on critical program routines and can be provided to small and larger groups even remotely based on the school/district’s adopted curricula. As another option, the CORE Consultant can provide a customized review and refresher training for teachers new to a district adopted program.
A CORE Consultant works with groups of teachers to deepen understanding through focused work on one or more key English Language Arts and mathematical lessons. Specifically, participants will co-plan, observe each other teaching a lesson, take focused notes on the instruction, and then debrief and refine the lesson.
Remote Professional Learning Courses & Workshops
Help teachers learn evidence-based practices to strengthen math and ELA instruction whether it is delivered in person or remotely.
CORE’s well known and respected math and ELA workshops and courses are now available in a remote learning format. Just like during our on-site courses, CORE Educational Consultants provide personalized, interactive sessions that deepen educators’ knowledge and help them apply concepts to their practice.
Our remote synchronous courses are generally conducted using Zoom in 75-90 minute sessions over several days. The course schedule is customized to accommodate your needs and to make learning accessible and manageable for educators. Workshops and courses can be bundled with our remote consulting services to provide additional support for participants.
We also offer asynchronous, facilitated Online Elementary Academies and Online Math Academies that enables teachers to learn on their time at their own pace.
Remote training in the implementation of Center for the Collaborative Classroom’s Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words (SIPPS) and other ELA and math curricula is available to teach educators how to deliver the programs effectively to students in remote and in-person learning environments.
Elementary ELA Courses
Build your team’s fundamental knowledge of evidence-based instructional practices based on the science of reading. Online national courses are offered regularly throughout the year or we can create a custom online cohort for 20 or more people from your district.
Get a short overview of five critical components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Learn foundational concepts from early grade basics and adolescent literacy to intervention. Topics are aligned to state standards and the science of reading.
Participants will gain the knowledge they need to select, administer, score, and interpret the results of assessment measures in each of the main areas of reading instruction.
Develop teachers’ skills to facilitate partner, small-group, and whole-class discussions that support student collaboration and conversation to deepen comprehension.
Learn techniques to help both young children and upper elementary students excel at narrative and informative/explanatory writing.
Gain knowledge and strategies for teaching language conventions and writing, from basic sentence construction through longer compositions.
Learn a variety of methods to prepare elementary students to become strong opinion writers.
Adolescent ELA Courses
Provide middle and high school teachers with foundational information about the science of reading to begin to make informed instructional decisions and address the needs of adolescent struggling readers.
Learn how to improve vocabulary knowledge for all middle and high school students and improve content understanding through comprehension strategies that work for both literary and informational text.
Participants will gain the knowledge they need to select, administer, score, and interpret the results of assessment measures in each of the main areas of reading instruction.
Learn and practice evidence-based methods to teach important content vocabulary and teach students to figure out unknown words.
Develop skills to facilitate partner, small-group, and whole-class discussions that support student collaboration and conversation to deepen comprehension.
Learn techniques to help students craft organized and coherent narrative and informative/explanatory writing.
Develop skills and knowledge to help middle and high school students become strong argumentative or opinion writers, essential to mastering state standards and preparing for college or careers.
K-12 Math Courses
Learn how fluency and number sense are connected through standards and teaching, and learn how to use fluency activities to engage students and build number sense.
Build proficiency through meaningful discourse and math-centered writing activities and by building math-specific vocabulary in students.
Learn how to increase students’ ability to tackle problem solving and see how to deepen and extend knowledge through math applications.
Increase mathematical content understanding and learn best practices to enable students to become mathematically proficient and meet state standards. Dive into the critical topics that pose challenges for many students, particularly those who are behind in mathematics achievement.
Increase mathematical content understanding and learn best practices to enable students to become mathematically proficient and meet state standards. Dive into the critical topics that pose challenges for many students, particularly those who are behind in mathematics achievement.
Deepen your knowledge of fractions and how to deliver evidence-based instruction that develops students’ mathematical proficiency with fractions. The Online Math Academy — Fractions includes two online, asynchronous facilitated courses from which to choose: Fraction Meaning, Equivalence, Addition, and Subtraction AND Multiplication and Division with Fractions.
Leadership and Capacity Building Courses
Designed for elementary principals and instructional leaders, learn the critical components of the science of reading, instructional leadership, systematic, explicit instruction, and data analysis.
Designed for district administrators, site administrators, instructional coaches, and leadership teams to develop a solid understanding of the issues for leadership on implementation of math programs, effective math instruction and sustained improvement.
Designed for school districts, this 16-session intensive training will prepare attendees to present the CORE Reading Academy to district teachers.
Designed for districts, this 16-session intensive training led by two consultants will prepare attendees to present the CORE Adolescent Literacy Solutions course to district teachers.
This training will prepare attendees to present the CORE Math Academy (Elementary or Middle School Academy) to district teachers.