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The Science of Reading and Wit & Wisdom®

This Month’s Focus

At Great Minds®, the Humanities team stays updated with the current scientific research on literacy. We bring research to life in our curricula and...

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Coaching Wit & Wisdom Educators: Building a Relationship for Effective Curriculum-Based Coaching

This month, Amina Naseer shares her reflections on some of the principles that ground Wit & Wisdom®’s approach to coaching. Educators can experience these and other...

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Keep, Stop, Start: Preparing for a State Assessment

This Month’s Focus

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

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Reading Instruction: What's Missing, How to Fill in the Gaps

July 1, 2021

Educators have cause for concern. Only about a third of Grade 4 students are proficient readers. A disproportionate number of low-income students...

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“#WeLoveMsJan”: The Teacher With Her Own Hashtag

December 25, 2020

Jan Busey was nervous. After years in the classroom, the retired teacher was about to start recording literacy video lessons for the first time, with...

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Early Literacy

Reading instruction today: What's missing, and how to fill in the gaps

October 26, 2020

Educators have cause for concern. Only about a third of Grade 4 students are proficient readers. A disproportionate number of low-income students...

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Wit & Wisdom Grades K–2 from Great Minds Earn Top EdReports Rating

March 2, 2020

For Immediate Release

Contact: Chad Colby: Chad.Colby@greatminds.org (202) 297-9437

Monday, March 2, 2020—Grades K–2 of Wit & Wisdom®, the English...

Early Literacy

The Story of Geodes, Part 1

November 11, 2019

Note: Great Minds® featured Geodes®, a new library of books for emerging readers, at the ASCD Empower19 conference in Chicago. Remarks follow. Part 2...

Early Literacy

Knowledge Building in Early Literacy to Develop Lifelong Readers

August 23, 2019

Great Minds® embraces the research that knowledge building should start at the outset of a student’s education. But what does that look like for...

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