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Rachel Stack

Rachel serves as Great Minds' Chief Academic Officer. She leads a team of teacher–writers who craft coherent, knowledge-rich content. Rachel joined Great Minds in 2015 after serving as vice president, Literacy Content and Instruction, for Scholastic Education. She has more than decade of experience as a teacher. Rachel began her career teaching third and eighth grade in New York City. She then taught high school world and American literature in Pittsburgh. Rachel received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Vassar College as well as a master’s degree in secondary education from Hunter College, City University of New York.

Rachel Stack

How To Make English Language Arts Accessible For Multilingual Learners

After spending many years teaching grade 4, I took a leap into a middle school English learner teaching position. Within a week, I had a grade 5...

How To Support Multilingual Learners In Engaging In Math Conversations In The Classroom

One sunny September morning, I called my grade 4 class together to the carpet to start our math lesson for the day. I displayed the four numbers...

Supporting Students with Dyslexia: An Educator and Parent Perspective

“Don’t just tell me the steps; I need to understand why and how it works.”—Anne to her math teacher

Phonics and Decoding: Building Knowledge with a Phonics Approach to Reading

From the very first page of their very first book, every reader should build knowledge of the world around them while practicing foundational skills....

How to Engage Math Students in Discourse Using Digital Tools

During my days as a classroom teacher, I always planned my math lessons with an eye on ways to authentically engage my students in the lesson and...

Newspaper Spotlights the Need to Make Math Materials Readable for All Learners: One Student’s Impact on Eureka Math²

At Great Minds®, we take student voice seriously. Opportunities for students to engage in discourse about their learning appear across content areas...

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