The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) recently named Consortium on Reaching Excellence in Education (CORE), a subsidiary of Pivot Learning, as one of the approved providers for research-based effective literacy instructional professional learning throughout the state.

EdReports provided independent analyses of five ELA foundational skills programs, including whether or not the skills apply research-based practices and are presented systematically with explicit instruction, so that educators can ensure they’re selecting strong, research-based supplemental reading curriculum. Linda Diamond, president of our partner organization, CORE, was a reviewer.

Educate78 recently took a deep dive into 2018-19 SBAC trends in "CRUNCHED: 5 Years of SBAC; 4 Views on Differentiated Assistance." Their analysis found that 32 schools in Oakland did not see positive gains in either ELA or Math. With the majority of schools needing support of some kind, Educate78 reached out to Oakland-based education organizations to find out how Differentiated Assistance can be provided. Pivot’s CEO, Arun Ramanthan, shared Pivot’s approach to school improvement.

Lake Orion Community Schools has been working hard to improve ELA instructional practices and increase reading achievement across the district. Not only have reading scores improved, but the district’s early literacy intervention program has received international recognition. Watch this webinar to learn more.

In California, recent funding increases have been outpaced by rising costs. Two new case studies drill into how budget pressures are playing out in Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) and in Marin county school districts.

Watch this on-demand webinar featuring Dr. David Kilpatrick, Author of Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, to learn how word-level reading develops and why some students struggle are valuable starting points for planning reading instruction and interventions.

Educators have long known that students with disabilities have not made the gains they should, despite placement in special education classes with individualized education plans or even mainstreaming into general education classrooms. Learn more from Linda Diamond, President of CORE and Author of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook, about closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities.

Just like students whose native language is Spanish or Amharic, students who speak the dialect known as African-American English (AAE) face obstacles to becoming proficient readers. Watch this webinar with Dr. Julie A. Washington to gain a deeper understanding of the impact AAE dialect has on black-white differences in reading achievement.

In this white paper, Dr. Dale Webster, Chief Academic Officer for CORE, describes how to identify dyslexia and how early assessment and research-based instruction for prevention and intervention for reading difficulties can stop the struggle to learn to read for your students.

This whitepaper by Linda Diamond, President of CORE walks through important principles of high-quality professional learning, describes what it looks like when a professional learning program successfully incorporates all of these principles, and highlights the impact this program model has had on instruction and student achievement in real districts and schools.