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Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning."
-Thomas Kempis
Core 4 All strives to ensure that educators and students are prepared to meet the ever- evolving demands of the 21st century workplace.
Inspire
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein
Core 4 All believes that standards-based curriculum will improve academic achievement and prepare students for success in college and career post-secondary opportunities.
Connections
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi

The Core 4 All Team provides schools and districts with on-site consulting from key-note speeches and workshops to year-long collaborations. Contact us for all your staff-development needs.
Students
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Core 4 All’s ultimate goal is to provide resources and strategies to educators so that both teachers AND students will become effective leaders in the 21st century.

Core 4 All is a professional development and consulting company dedicated to helping teachers and administrators make curricular change. It has the educational tools and knowledge to make a positive impact on student achievement. Let Core 4 All be the catalyst to guide your staff to prepare students to be the inspirational leaders of the 21st century by using the Common Core State Standards as the vehicle to drive teaching and learning.

Text Complexity: A Complex Issue

The March 2012 Educational Leadership publication popped through my mail chute and I was thrilled to read its title: READING ~The Core Skill~. As an English teacher and reading specialist, I have always believed that reading is the essence, the...

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CCSS And College Readiness

What does College and Career Ready Really Mean?

While reading “The Early College Challenge” in the American Educator (Fall 2011) I was struck by the “what if” questions proposed by authors Rosenbaum and Becker. They suggest placing...

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Data Driven Decisions and Team Autonomy

What exactly are data-driven decisions?

I am a little worried that the word “data” might be getting a bad and undeserved rap. Let me state up front that I am an advocate of data-driven decisions and no, I am not a left-brained mathematical...

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8 Easy Steps To Create A Multiple Choice Assessment

Congratulations to Professional Learning Teams who are becoming acquainted with the Common Core State Standards! As you unwrap priority standards, develop curriculum, and select instructional strategies, you will also assess your students’...

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4 Strategies To Help Your Students Stay Focused and Motivated

As an instructional coach, one of the most common concerns I hear from teachers is the lack of student motivation. Students are not interested in the material, are disengaged, disruptive, and lacking initiative. The Common Core State Standards...

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A Golden Nugget From Author Speak 2011

Halloween evening my colleagues and I embarked on the three-hour car ride from Chicago to Indianapolis to take part in Solution Tree's 2011 Author Speak, a three-day event featuring 99 authors in the field of education. I took away some...

Make Change Happen

As I write this post in my office, a cup of coffee sits patiently at my side waiting to be sipped, the sun shines through my front window, warming my back and in the background, the sound of the TV, echoing the remembrance that will never be...

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Text Complexity: A Complex Issue http://t.co/wQaA3XEI

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Thanks for a great Admin Academy at NCISC in Chicago today. We hope you were able to take away some nuggets.

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CCSS And College Readiness http://t.co/M07PffiN

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Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning."-Thomas Kempis

Core 4 All strives to ensure that educators and students are prepared to meet the ever- evolving demands of the 21st century workplace.

Text Complexity: A Complex Issue

CCSS And College Readiness

Data Driven Decisions and Team Autonomy

8 Easy Steps To Create A Multiple Choice Assessment

4 Strategies To Help Your Students Stay Focused and Motivated

A Golden Nugget From Author Speak 2011

Make Change Happen

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Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning."
-Thomas Kempis