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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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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®,...

Assessments News knowledge building

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...

Literacy News High-Quality Curriculum

Why a Bronx School Switched Its English Language Arts Curriculum Mid-Pandemic

May 2, 2022

When school leaders at P.S. 236 in the Bronx, NY, found that Units of Study, a reading curriculum produced by Columbia University’s Teachers College,...

Literacy News

North Carolina District Gets Spotlight for Literacy Efforts

January 20, 2022

It’s great to see Jackson County Public Schools get the attention it deserves for taking important steps to improve literacy education. The...

Literacy Writing Instruction News

Bringing Equitable and Engaging Writing Practices to the Elementary Classroom

January 10, 2022

Tanisha Washington, a regional director of implementation services for Wit & Wisdom®, shares her story of getting elementary students to write with...

Literacy Writing Instruction News