Lois Mendoza is an Educational Services Consultant with CORE. She holds a master’s degree in Instruction and Leadership, an Administrative Services credential, and a Reading Specialist credential. For 26 years, Lois taught in the classroom and served as a reading coach, mentor for LAUSD literacy coaches, reading program consultant, and literacy trainer in urban and rural districts across the state of California. She provided support through district-wide and site-based professional development on research-based English Language Arts strategies for administrators, coaches, teachers, and paraprofessionals. Other forms of support included providing leadership to superintendents and principals through classroom observations, debriefing with the instructional leadership teams, and facilitating Instructional Rounds.Lois also served as a member of the EQuIP Peer Review Panel, an initiative of Achieve designed to identify high-quality materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Ms. Mendoza joined CORE in 2015 and has worked with educators in urban, rural, and isolated district settings across the United States. Lois has instructed numerous CORE K-12 workshops for elementary principals, coaches, and teachers on research-based reading instruction with an emphasis on high quality first teaching. She has facilitated professional learning to address the needs of diverse learners through assessment-based tiered intervention and has extensive experience working in districts with populations of English Learners. As a site consultant, Lois has a deep desire to build internal capacity in districts to ensure that all students are receiving quality instruction and that each student is growing to their full potential in learning to read.