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Engaging Families in Wit & Wisdom®

As educators, we are experts in curriculum and instruction. We understand, broadly, students’ needs and how to help students grow academically. Families and...

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Structural Design Features for Effective Wit & Wisdom® Preparation

Most educators graduate from teacher preparation programs ready to plan their lessons but not to internalize curriculum. When a school or district adopts high quality...

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Prioritized Instruction for the 2021–2022 Academic Year

Prioritized Instruction for the 2021–2022 Academic Year:A Position Paper from the Great Minds® Humanities Team

At Great Minds, we believe all children deserve the...

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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...

Early Literacy Learning at Home

“#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,...

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....

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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