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Examining Scarborough’s Rope: Background Knowledge

Scarborough’s Reading Rope provides a model for understanding the components of skilled reading. This blog series examines each of the strands of the Language...

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New Products and Services: What’s New with PhD Science?

The PhD Science® team has been busy responding to the needs of our implementers. This summer, we are working hard to bring you new and updated products and services for...

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Make Student Learning Visible with High-Quality Assessments

Assessments are essential for making student learning visible. One of the reasons I love Eureka Math2™ is that it includes coherent, aligned assessments that offer...

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Unpacking Geodes®: Engaging Early Readers and Building Lasting Knowledge

When I was an elementary school teacher, I absolutely delighted in building a reading haven for my students. To me, the classroom library was not just a home for bound...

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Make Student Learning Visible with High-Quality Assessments

June 1, 2022

Assessments are essential for making student learning visible. One of the reasons I love Eureka Math2™ is that it includes coherent, aligned...

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State Testing Time? Don’t Stop Your High-Quality Instruction

May 20, 2022

Worried about the “need” for test prep this time of year and its impact on your teaching?George Galindo, an implementation leader for Wit & Wisdom®,...

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A Knowledge-Rich Approach Shouldn’t Stop on Testing Days: Wit & Wisdom’s Katie Waters Explains in the Dallas Morning News

May 20, 2022

Katie Waters, content lead for Wit & Wisdom®, has an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News on positive changes to the Texas state reading test, known as...

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Kindergarten Assessment Made Easier

March 7, 2022

Assessing kindergartners in math can be a challenge. For one thing, young learners may struggle to express their thinking in writing. With...

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Two Teachers Share How Adopting Wit & Wisdom® Shifted Test Preparation

February 9, 2022

Over a decade ago, E.D. Hirsch and Robert Pondiscio argued that reading tests are actually tests of knowledge. In other words, the more a student...

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Keep, Stop, Start: Preparing for a State Assessment

February 9, 2022

This Month’s Focus

Our focus this month turns to state testing. Testing occurs each spring, but for many educators testing feels particularly...

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