Margie Brasil-Butaitis is an Educational Services Consultant with CORE. Margie is passionate about teaching foundational reading skills. She is enthusiastic about implementing curriculum that inspires students to become confident readers. Margie teaches in a public school in Santa Cruz County, mainly 1st grade. She has also worked as reading interventionist, and SIPPS coach for early literacy. As a SIPPS coach, she has used all the SIPPS program levels to support peers with their SIPPS development and acted in giving teachers strategic planning in implementing SIPPS with authenticity and purity through observations, consultation, and peer feedback. Margie is continually deepening her understanding of the SIPPS program by attending CORE’s SIPPS trainings offered by her district and has earned her certification in CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy.

Margie received a Bachelor’s in English with a Minor in Business Writing from San Jose State University and has a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential from Cal State Monterey Bay with a concentration in English.