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☀️ It's a Standards Institute summer!

☀️ Bay Area ✔️ ☀️ New Orleans ✔️ ☀️ Chicago ✔️
Next stop: Philadelphia! 💜

We've had an incredible summer connecting with educators through our CORE Pathways Standards Institutes. Here's a look behind the scenes at some of the learning, collaboration, and fun along the way.

Friday reminder from a recent CORE Pathways Standards Institute:

⭐ Engage wholeheartedly
⭐ Own your voice
⭐ Welcome the stretch
⭐ Embrace curiosity

Not a bad way to end the week.

Implementing an effective literacy program takes more than selecting the right curriculum. It requires the right systems, supports, and conditions for success.

What's one factor you've found to be critical for successful implementation?

💬 Share your thoughts below.

Stories help students build vocabulary, background knowledge, and connections to the world around them.

We’re excited to spotlight this MaiStoryBooks series featuring engaging picture books across a variety of topics that support literacy learning and student engagement.

🎥📚 https://na2.hubs.ly/H062Dd60

Which topics are your students most excited to explore through books?

Summer reading builds more than literacy skills. It builds confidence, curiosity, and lifelong readers.

A few minutes of reading each day can help students maintain vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills over the summer months. Whether it's picture books, audiobooks, graphic novels, or family read-alouds, every reading experience matters.

June is Audiobook Month! 🎧

Audiobooks can support vocabulary development, listening comprehension, and background knowledge — all important components of literacy development.

This Audiobook Month, explore how audiobooks can positively impact children’s intellectual growth (link in comments)!

Share what you're listening to!

Want to Spur your Child’s Intellectual Development? Use Audiobooks Instead of Videos Vyshedskiy: Unlike videos, audiobooks require greater use of the imagination

Friday mood: bringing the same energy to literacy work that we bring to team photos. 🧡

Happy International Day of Play 🎲

Play supports language development, problem-solving, collaboration, and literacy growth — all essential components of learning. This International Day of Play, we’re reflecting on the importance of joyful learning experiences and the role play has in child development and well-being.

Read the full article from The 74 on why play matters now more than ever (link in comments)!

The U.N.’s International Day of Play vs. ‘An Inhuman World’ The United Nations has declared June 11 to be the first annual International Day of Play, calling it “a unifying moment at global, national and local levels to elevate the importance of play.” With everything going on in the world, why does the U.N. care about play? The simple answer is that the...

📖 A reminder from the Teaching Reading Sourcebook:
Reading is not a natural process. It must be taught.

Unlike spoken language, reading requires explicit instruction and practice. It's one reason why strong literacy teaching matters so much.

If the Sourcebook has been on your summer reading list, now's a great time to grab a copy. 📚 Get 15% off the Teaching Reading Sourcebook and all online bookstore orders through June 30 with code CORELEARN15.