Lynda Pate is an Educational Services Consultant for CORE. As a career educator beginning in 1990, Lynda has experienced and learned from her many roles in the public schools— a paraprofessional in Special Education, a classroom teacher mainstreaming students, an elementary site administrator supporting EL Students and all student assessment, and the inaugural position of Early Literacy Coordinator for Pajaro Valley Unified School District. In this last position, working closely with team members from CORE, Lynda was able to learn, witness, and support the transformation of reading instruction at 17 elementary schools over a three-year period.

Ms. Pate has presented professional learning sessions to parents, teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators. Ms. Pate was honored to be a part of a team presenting a poster of the PVUSD’s transformative work on Early Literacy at the Carnegie Summit in 2019 and virtually in 2020.