Past Projects

ECLIPSE (Excellence from Coaching in Literacy Preparation in Special Education) 2020-2024

• This NMPED federally funded project partners with the Office of Special Education, Rec #7, PRO, and Thrive. Its focus is to support reading instruction for K-3 students with disabilities in rural NM classrooms.CORE was contracted to provide regional professional development that included topics such as:

• Intensive Reading Interventions

• Using Data to Set Attainable Goals

• Useful Assessment Tools for Instructions

• Language Development for Multilingual Students

• Oral Language Development

• Leveraging Our Storytelling Culture

• Culturally Responsive Teaching

• Addressing Language Needs for Students with Disabilities

• Interactive use of Content and Language Objectives

• Comprehensible Input Strategies

• CORE provides hybrid instructional coaching for inclusion teachers and Special Education Teachers such as:

• Collaborate with teachers weekly via Zoom to co- Teach, analyze data, observe, and provide feedback.

• Collaborate with teachers monthly to co-teach, model lessons, analyze data, observe, and provide feedback.

• Describe in detail the experience, competence, expertise, and reliability the firm possesses in providing support services - professional learning for English Learner (EL) students.

RAMS (Reading And Math Support) 2018-2020

• This NMPED Federally funded project was a continuation of the RDA project with a greater focus on tiered interventions and using data for teaching and learning

  • CORE was contracted to provide regional professional development that included topics such as:

    • Intensive Interventions in Reading and Math

    • Formative Assessment

    • SIOP

    • Small Group Instruction

    • Using Technology for Language Support

    • Video Coaching

    • Collaborative Practices

    • Leadership Coaching

    • Using ACCESS Scores for Planning

• CORE also hosted a series of webinars to improve instruction and to support communication between all stakeholders

RDA (Results Driven Accountability) 2016-2018

• This federally funded NMPED project was a collaboration between Regional Cooperative #6 and #7, NMPED Title 1, PRO, and CORE NMSU. It focused on providing Tiered Systemic Support for over 88 schools and 37 Districts.

  • CORE was contracted to provide regional professional development that included topics such as

    • Using Data to Inform Instruction

    • Student Engagement Strategies for Language Development

    • SEL Classroom Structures for Lowering the Affective Filter

    • Questioning Strategies

    • Academic Interventions

    • Leadership Academy

    • Content and Language Objectives

    • Total Participation Techniques

    • Readers' Theater for Writing

• CORE also provided all RDA schools with math and reading instructional and leadership coaching. 

• CORE collaborated with the entire RDA to provide a large end-of-summer RDA Conference in Albuquerque, NM, for all schools and their school teams. Multiple sessions on various teaching and learning topics and planning time were hosted.

• CORE was also part of school walk-throughs and feedback conversations with schools.

ASSETS (2014-2016)

• This NMPED Federally funded project focused on supporting NM schools with the state’s lowest mathematics and reading proficiency scores.

  • CORE was contracted to provide regional professional development that included topics such as;

    • Unpacking the Common Core State Standards

    • Backwards Planning and Implementation

    • Sheltered Instruction Operations Protocol Training

    • Unpacking and applying the WIDA language standard for ELL’s

    • Making Language Comprehensible in Inclusion Classrooms

• CORE also provided math and reading instructional coaching for 24 ASSETS schools in over ten districts.

• CORE collaborated with Regional Cooperative #6 and #7 to provide school feedback through walk-throughs and discussions.