The Core Collaborative
@corecollaborative.bsky.social
Unlock the curiosity, creativity and potential in absolutely every learner; we are a PLN dedicated to advancing learner agency worldwide. http://bit.ly/moreTCC
Michael McDowell joins educators in Pendleton, OR tomorrow for the InterMountain ESD PD Summit! He’ll re-envision rigor through small habits, deep learning, and leadership moves that make challenge doable for all learners.
#Education #DeepLearning #Rigor #PD #ReEnvisioningRigor
#Education #DeepLearning #Rigor #PD #ReEnvisioningRigor
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Michael McDowell joins educators in Pendleton, OR tomorrow for the InterMountain ESD PD Summit! He’ll re-envision rigor through small habits, deep learning, and leadership moves that make challenge doable for all learners.
#Education #DeepLearning #Rigor #PD #ReEnvisioningRigor
#Education #DeepLearning #Rigor #PD #ReEnvisioningRigor
Monday Mindset: How can we ensure that our students authentically experience and actively shape democracy?
Take a look at our blog on Human-Centered Design and the deeper promise of democracy. What resonates with you?
thecorecollaborative.com/designing-fo...
#EducationalLeadership #StudentAgency
Take a look at our blog on Human-Centered Design and the deeper promise of democracy. What resonates with you?
thecorecollaborative.com/designing-fo...
#EducationalLeadership #StudentAgency
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Monday Mindset: How can we ensure that our students authentically experience and actively shape democracy?
Take a look at our blog on Human-Centered Design and the deeper promise of democracy. What resonates with you?
thecorecollaborative.com/designing-fo...
#EducationalLeadership #StudentAgency
Take a look at our blog on Human-Centered Design and the deeper promise of democracy. What resonates with you?
thecorecollaborative.com/designing-fo...
#EducationalLeadership #StudentAgency
🌈 The Core Collaborative strives to build classrooms and communities where every learner’s identity is honored, where every voice matters, and where everyone is free to show up fully as themselves. Because we believe that everyone deserves to be seen, heard, valued, and loved! ❤️
June 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🌈 The Core Collaborative strives to build classrooms and communities where every learner’s identity is honored, where every voice matters, and where everyone is free to show up fully as themselves. Because we believe that everyone deserves to be seen, heard, valued, and loved! ❤️
Looking for more #studentengagement and better attendance? Want to offer ALL of your students a sense of #belonging?
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
June 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Looking for more #studentengagement and better attendance? Want to offer ALL of your students a sense of #belonging?
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
When we help schools implement CBL, we see profound changes in engagement and achievement. But what does this actually look like?
The key components:
🎯 Real-world connections
📊 Mastery assessment practices
🔄 Continuous feedback loops
💻 Strategic technology integration
🔗: qrco.de/Competency-B...
The key components:
🎯 Real-world connections
📊 Mastery assessment practices
🔄 Continuous feedback loops
💻 Strategic technology integration
🔗: qrco.de/Competency-B...
June 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
When we help schools implement CBL, we see profound changes in engagement and achievement. But what does this actually look like?
The key components:
🎯 Real-world connections
📊 Mastery assessment practices
🔄 Continuous feedback loops
💻 Strategic technology integration
🔗: qrco.de/Competency-B...
The key components:
🎯 Real-world connections
📊 Mastery assessment practices
🔄 Continuous feedback loops
💻 Strategic technology integration
🔗: qrco.de/Competency-B...
What is our role in Literacy and Justice for All? Our consultants are committed to empowering ALL learners, through:
✅ Phonemic awareness and phonics
✅ Vocabulary and comprehension
✅ Evidence-based writing
✅ Academic discourse
Connect with us!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
✅ Phonemic awareness and phonics
✅ Vocabulary and comprehension
✅ Evidence-based writing
✅ Academic discourse
Connect with us!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
May 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What is our role in Literacy and Justice for All? Our consultants are committed to empowering ALL learners, through:
✅ Phonemic awareness and phonics
✅ Vocabulary and comprehension
✅ Evidence-based writing
✅ Academic discourse
Connect with us!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
✅ Phonemic awareness and phonics
✅ Vocabulary and comprehension
✅ Evidence-based writing
✅ Academic discourse
Connect with us!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
❤️Join the inspiring Marisol Quevado Rerucha virtually on June 17! She will be sharing her keynote address, "Thriving by Living Beyond the Surface", for Studies Weekly's Learning Lab 2025 Conference.
It's FREE PD from your couch!
Register here: s-w.co/learning-lab
#Belonging #RestorativePractices
It's FREE PD from your couch!
Register here: s-w.co/learning-lab
#Belonging #RestorativePractices
May 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
❤️Join the inspiring Marisol Quevado Rerucha virtually on June 17! She will be sharing her keynote address, "Thriving by Living Beyond the Surface", for Studies Weekly's Learning Lab 2025 Conference.
It's FREE PD from your couch!
Register here: s-w.co/learning-lab
#Belonging #RestorativePractices
It's FREE PD from your couch!
Register here: s-w.co/learning-lab
#Belonging #RestorativePractices
Students are more than test scores; they are looking for school to be relevant and empowering. By implementing student-centered practices, like #ImpactTeams, schools saw a 15% reduction in dropout rates!
Want to know how this can work for your students? Visit us at www.LeadingImpactTeams.com!
Want to know how this can work for your students? Visit us at www.LeadingImpactTeams.com!
May 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Students are more than test scores; they are looking for school to be relevant and empowering. By implementing student-centered practices, like #ImpactTeams, schools saw a 15% reduction in dropout rates!
Want to know how this can work for your students? Visit us at www.LeadingImpactTeams.com!
Want to know how this can work for your students? Visit us at www.LeadingImpactTeams.com!
Are you looking to better support Multilingual Learners? Want to strengthen MTSS implementation? How about getting started with Impact Teams?
📣 Camp Elevate is here! Our true "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience!
On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Days
Email [email protected] today!
📣 Camp Elevate is here! Our true "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience!
On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Days
Email [email protected] today!
May 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Are you looking to better support Multilingual Learners? Want to strengthen MTSS implementation? How about getting started with Impact Teams?
📣 Camp Elevate is here! Our true "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience!
On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Days
Email [email protected] today!
📣 Camp Elevate is here! Our true "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience!
On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Days
Email [email protected] today!
The Youth Empowered Stewardship (YES!) is democracy in action! Students are powerful co-creators of school culture and community. Let's listen to their voices and let them lead!
YES builds important multi-generational partnerships. Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
#Belonging #StudentVoice
YES builds important multi-generational partnerships. Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
#Belonging #StudentVoice
May 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Youth Empowered Stewardship (YES!) is democracy in action! Students are powerful co-creators of school culture and community. Let's listen to their voices and let them lead!
YES builds important multi-generational partnerships. Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
#Belonging #StudentVoice
YES builds important multi-generational partnerships. Learn more here!
qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
#Belonging #StudentVoice
The next two weeks are going to be 🔥!
If you're in Missouri, don't miss these sessions! Join Paul Bloomberg to learn about Student Agency on May 7, then hear about Competency-Based Learning with Ryan Sikkes on May 14.
Looking forward to learning with the Success-Ready Students Network!
If you're in Missouri, don't miss these sessions! Join Paul Bloomberg to learn about Student Agency on May 7, then hear about Competency-Based Learning with Ryan Sikkes on May 14.
Looking forward to learning with the Success-Ready Students Network!
May 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The next two weeks are going to be 🔥!
If you're in Missouri, don't miss these sessions! Join Paul Bloomberg to learn about Student Agency on May 7, then hear about Competency-Based Learning with Ryan Sikkes on May 14.
Looking forward to learning with the Success-Ready Students Network!
If you're in Missouri, don't miss these sessions! Join Paul Bloomberg to learn about Student Agency on May 7, then hear about Competency-Based Learning with Ryan Sikkes on May 14.
Looking forward to learning with the Success-Ready Students Network!
What is Competency-Based Learning?
🎯 Real-world learning that connects to college and career
📊 Competency-based grading that measures what matters
🔄 Continuous assessment and feedback
💻 Technology integration that enhances connection and an authentic audience
Learn more! qrco.de/Competency-B...
🎯 Real-world learning that connects to college and career
📊 Competency-based grading that measures what matters
🔄 Continuous assessment and feedback
💻 Technology integration that enhances connection and an authentic audience
Learn more! qrco.de/Competency-B...
May 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
What is Competency-Based Learning?
🎯 Real-world learning that connects to college and career
📊 Competency-based grading that measures what matters
🔄 Continuous assessment and feedback
💻 Technology integration that enhances connection and an authentic audience
Learn more! qrco.de/Competency-B...
🎯 Real-world learning that connects to college and career
📊 Competency-based grading that measures what matters
🔄 Continuous assessment and feedback
💻 Technology integration that enhances connection and an authentic audience
Learn more! qrco.de/Competency-B...
How did these multilingual 2nd graders at PS 16 learn to self and peer assess their narrative writing?
✅ Co-created success criteria
✅ Student-friendly checklists
✅ Exemplars and models
Empower your Multilingual Learners!
🔗 qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualLearners #EducationalLeadership
✅ Co-created success criteria
✅ Student-friendly checklists
✅ Exemplars and models
Empower your Multilingual Learners!
🔗 qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualLearners #EducationalLeadership
May 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
How did these multilingual 2nd graders at PS 16 learn to self and peer assess their narrative writing?
✅ Co-created success criteria
✅ Student-friendly checklists
✅ Exemplars and models
Empower your Multilingual Learners!
🔗 qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualLearners #EducationalLeadership
✅ Co-created success criteria
✅ Student-friendly checklists
✅ Exemplars and models
Empower your Multilingual Learners!
🔗 qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualLearners #EducationalLeadership
We can't wait for attendees at the Equity Development Institute to enjoy this keynote from our partner consultant and good friend Jeneca Parker.
Get ready to learn about Humanizing Data: Listening, Learning, and Leading for Belonging!
Get ready to learn about Humanizing Data: Listening, Learning, and Leading for Belonging!
April 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We can't wait for attendees at the Equity Development Institute to enjoy this keynote from our partner consultant and good friend Jeneca Parker.
Get ready to learn about Humanizing Data: Listening, Learning, and Leading for Belonging!
Get ready to learn about Humanizing Data: Listening, Learning, and Leading for Belonging!
📣 Research shows embracing students' home languages boosts learning!
🌟 Translanguaging validates identity, builds belonging, and enhances cognition. Students using their full linguistic repertoire show deeper comprehension.🧠
Visit our MLL Resource Hub! qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualEducation
🌟 Translanguaging validates identity, builds belonging, and enhances cognition. Students using their full linguistic repertoire show deeper comprehension.🧠
Visit our MLL Resource Hub! qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualEducation
April 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
📣 Research shows embracing students' home languages boosts learning!
🌟 Translanguaging validates identity, builds belonging, and enhances cognition. Students using their full linguistic repertoire show deeper comprehension.🧠
Visit our MLL Resource Hub! qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualEducation
🌟 Translanguaging validates identity, builds belonging, and enhances cognition. Students using their full linguistic repertoire show deeper comprehension.🧠
Visit our MLL Resource Hub! qrco.de/EmpowerMLs
#MultilingualEducation
📣 CAMP ELEVATE! 📣
We are thrilled to announce Camp Elevate: a "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience designed for educators looking to transform assessment!
Summer 2025 | On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Day Camp
Ready to design your adventure?
thecorecollaborative.com/event/camp-e...
We are thrilled to announce Camp Elevate: a "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience designed for educators looking to transform assessment!
Summer 2025 | On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Day Camp
Ready to design your adventure?
thecorecollaborative.com/event/camp-e...
April 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📣 CAMP ELEVATE! 📣
We are thrilled to announce Camp Elevate: a "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience designed for educators looking to transform assessment!
Summer 2025 | On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Day Camp
Ready to design your adventure?
thecorecollaborative.com/event/camp-e...
We are thrilled to announce Camp Elevate: a "Choose Your Own Adventure" workshop experience designed for educators looking to transform assessment!
Summer 2025 | On-Site or Virtual | 2-3 Day Camp
Ready to design your adventure?
thecorecollaborative.com/event/camp-e...
Shout out to our amazing partner, Jeneca Parker-Tongue for bringing the impact to #AERA2025!
She just shared insights on how schools can hold both harm and healing—without retraumatizing solutions born from trauma.
#Belonging #ArtsBasedResearch #Placemaking #DoingBeingBecoming
She just shared insights on how schools can hold both harm and healing—without retraumatizing solutions born from trauma.
#Belonging #ArtsBasedResearch #Placemaking #DoingBeingBecoming
April 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Shout out to our amazing partner, Jeneca Parker-Tongue for bringing the impact to #AERA2025!
She just shared insights on how schools can hold both harm and healing—without retraumatizing solutions born from trauma.
#Belonging #ArtsBasedResearch #Placemaking #DoingBeingBecoming
She just shared insights on how schools can hold both harm and healing—without retraumatizing solutions born from trauma.
#Belonging #ArtsBasedResearch #Placemaking #DoingBeingBecoming
Kansas leaders, Unlock Rigorous Learning with Michael McDowell on June 4th and 5th!
Check out the flyer for more info and don't miss out! Register now!
🔗https://events.greenbush.org/session/day-1-20241217181140
#Lead4Rigor #StudentEngagement #CriticalThinking
Check out the flyer for more info and don't miss out! Register now!
🔗https://events.greenbush.org/session/day-1-20241217181140
#Lead4Rigor #StudentEngagement #CriticalThinking
April 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Kansas leaders, Unlock Rigorous Learning with Michael McDowell on June 4th and 5th!
Check out the flyer for more info and don't miss out! Register now!
🔗https://events.greenbush.org/session/day-1-20241217181140
#Lead4Rigor #StudentEngagement #CriticalThinking
Check out the flyer for more info and don't miss out! Register now!
🔗https://events.greenbush.org/session/day-1-20241217181140
#Lead4Rigor #StudentEngagement #CriticalThinking
Successful schools encourage critical questioning and deliberate practice in literacy with:
✅ Co-constructed learning intentions and success criteria
✅ Self-assessment and reflection
✅ Real-world writing
Visit our Resource Hub!
🔗 qrco.de/Literacy
#LiteracyandJusticeforAll #EducationalLeadership
✅ Co-constructed learning intentions and success criteria
✅ Self-assessment and reflection
✅ Real-world writing
Visit our Resource Hub!
🔗 qrco.de/Literacy
#LiteracyandJusticeforAll #EducationalLeadership
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Successful schools encourage critical questioning and deliberate practice in literacy with:
✅ Co-constructed learning intentions and success criteria
✅ Self-assessment and reflection
✅ Real-world writing
Visit our Resource Hub!
🔗 qrco.de/Literacy
#LiteracyandJusticeforAll #EducationalLeadership
✅ Co-constructed learning intentions and success criteria
✅ Self-assessment and reflection
✅ Real-world writing
Visit our Resource Hub!
🔗 qrco.de/Literacy
#LiteracyandJusticeforAll #EducationalLeadership
Watch this 3rd grader explain her math understanding and her next steps.
Impact Teams = high-impact strategies:
✅ Success criteria co-created
✅ Student-facing rubrics and progressions
✅ Self/peer assessment so STUDENTS own the learning
www.LeadingImpactTeams.com
#StudentEngagement #LearnerAgency
Impact Teams = high-impact strategies:
✅ Success criteria co-created
✅ Student-facing rubrics and progressions
✅ Self/peer assessment so STUDENTS own the learning
www.LeadingImpactTeams.com
#StudentEngagement #LearnerAgency
April 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Watch this 3rd grader explain her math understanding and her next steps.
Impact Teams = high-impact strategies:
✅ Success criteria co-created
✅ Student-facing rubrics and progressions
✅ Self/peer assessment so STUDENTS own the learning
www.LeadingImpactTeams.com
#StudentEngagement #LearnerAgency
Impact Teams = high-impact strategies:
✅ Success criteria co-created
✅ Student-facing rubrics and progressions
✅ Self/peer assessment so STUDENTS own the learning
www.LeadingImpactTeams.com
#StudentEngagement #LearnerAgency
Impact Teams innovate solutions for ALL students using:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and root causes of obstacles
✅ Action steps: high-impact and grounded in research to reach EVERY learner
Learn more at LeadingImpactTeams.com!
#ImpactTeams #EdLeadership #EduSky
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and root causes of obstacles
✅ Action steps: high-impact and grounded in research to reach EVERY learner
Learn more at LeadingImpactTeams.com!
#ImpactTeams #EdLeadership #EduSky
April 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Impact Teams innovate solutions for ALL students using:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and root causes of obstacles
✅ Action steps: high-impact and grounded in research to reach EVERY learner
Learn more at LeadingImpactTeams.com!
#ImpactTeams #EdLeadership #EduSky
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and root causes of obstacles
✅ Action steps: high-impact and grounded in research to reach EVERY learner
Learn more at LeadingImpactTeams.com!
#ImpactTeams #EdLeadership #EduSky
📣 Change your classroom, change your school, change the world! 📣
Re-imagine your PLCs with Impact Teams:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and obstacles
✅ Action steps to reach EVERY learner
Grab the book now at www.mimitoddpress.com/leading-impa...
#SchoolLeadership #PLCs
Re-imagine your PLCs with Impact Teams:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and obstacles
✅ Action steps to reach EVERY learner
Grab the book now at www.mimitoddpress.com/leading-impa...
#SchoolLeadership #PLCs
April 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📣 Change your classroom, change your school, change the world! 📣
Re-imagine your PLCs with Impact Teams:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and obstacles
✅ Action steps to reach EVERY learner
Grab the book now at www.mimitoddpress.com/leading-impa...
#SchoolLeadership #PLCs
Re-imagine your PLCs with Impact Teams:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and obstacles
✅ Action steps to reach EVERY learner
Grab the book now at www.mimitoddpress.com/leading-impa...
#SchoolLeadership #PLCs
Looking for more #studentengagement? Want to offer ALL of your students a sense of #belonging?
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
🔗 qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
🔗 qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
April 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Looking for more #studentengagement? Want to offer ALL of your students a sense of #belonging?
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
🔗 qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
Connect with our Youth Empowered Stewardship and learn how to build a multigenerational approach to empowerment in your school or district!
Learn more here!
🔗 qrco.de/YouthEmpower...
✅ Co-created success criteria
✅ Self and peer assessment
✅ Analyzing common formative assessments as a team to empower EVERY learner
That's Impact Teams!
Curious? Want your teams to get results?
Check out our Resource Hub and contact us for more info!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/impact-team-...
✅ Self and peer assessment
✅ Analyzing common formative assessments as a team to empower EVERY learner
That's Impact Teams!
Curious? Want your teams to get results?
Check out our Resource Hub and contact us for more info!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/impact-team-...
March 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
✅ Co-created success criteria
✅ Self and peer assessment
✅ Analyzing common formative assessments as a team to empower EVERY learner
That's Impact Teams!
Curious? Want your teams to get results?
Check out our Resource Hub and contact us for more info!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/impact-team-...
✅ Self and peer assessment
✅ Analyzing common formative assessments as a team to empower EVERY learner
That's Impact Teams!
Curious? Want your teams to get results?
Check out our Resource Hub and contact us for more info!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/impact-team-...
📚 Reimagining literacy as a path to empowerment! 📚
Core Collaborative's Literacy and Justice For All initiative empowers students to not only decode texts, but also to challenge narratives and amplify voices.
Literacy is reading the world!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
Core Collaborative's Literacy and Justice For All initiative empowers students to not only decode texts, but also to challenge narratives and amplify voices.
Literacy is reading the world!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
March 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
📚 Reimagining literacy as a path to empowerment! 📚
Core Collaborative's Literacy and Justice For All initiative empowers students to not only decode texts, but also to challenge narratives and amplify voices.
Literacy is reading the world!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy
Core Collaborative's Literacy and Justice For All initiative empowers students to not only decode texts, but also to challenge narratives and amplify voices.
Literacy is reading the world!
go.thecorecollaborative.com/literacy-and...
#Literacy