Both Students and Young Educators Benefit With Core5 in the Classroom

Liliana Salazar believes sharing challenges and accomplishments helps educators innovate and succeed when it comes to literacy, working collaboratively instead of in silos. 

As the national director for special education and student support for Miami’s Academica, which provides support for charter schools across the country, Salazar shares the fact that Lexia® Core5® Reading not only helps students, but young educators as well. 

“The new teachers are struggling on how to teach,” she said. It’s not unusual to blame young readers’ learning loss on the pandemic, but Salazar says new educators went through the same challenge at the collegiate level. 

“What we have coming in are teachers that are very young, teachers that just graduated,” she said, adding: “They haven’t gotten the best instruction because two years of college work was done online instead of actually having those field experience hours.” 

Salazar said her team focuses on making sure educators are well versed in the science of reading, and with Core5 built on the science of reading, educators’ knowledge is enhanced. 

For students, using Core5 allows them to practice what is taught in class, helping them make the critical shift from learning to read to reading to learn. 

For teachers, Core5’s research-proven, computer-based approach also supports them by pinpointing students’ specific needs with real-time performance data provided by Lexia’s patented Assessment Without Testing® technology. The reports provide teachers and administrators with a full view of student progress by student, class, school, or district without stopping to administer a test.   

Check out this short video to learn more about how Lexia® is helping educators at Academica’s charter schools succeed.