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Sara Pixley, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at Great Minds

As Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at Great Minds, Sara brings 20+ years of experience in internal, external, and evaluation research, leveraging deep customer insights to shape product development, strategy, and thought leadership. Holding a PhD in Cognitive Science with a focus on the neuroscience of lifespan learning and memory, she has designed and evaluated impactful learning solutions for learners of all ages, from children to corporate leaders, across hundreds of global organizations.

Sara Pixley, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at Great Minds

Beyond Adoption: Why Curriculum Adoption is Not the Endpoint

Major curriculum adoptions are often filled with optimism; however, across districts, curriculum adoption is often treated as a finish line. But...

The Long Haul: What Real Curriculum Implementation Looks Like

If adoption is the starting point, implementation is the journey, and it is longer and more complex than many systems anticipate. It is easy to...

The Support That Stays: How Pohakea Elementary Turned Ongoing Partnership into Classroom Results

When Eryn Muraoka describes her school’s approach to literacy, she doesn’t start with scores. She starts with a young student holding up a book.

Supporting Student Discourse Through Math Instruction

"No offense, Ms. Hopkinson, but I learn better from my friends' thinking than I do from you."

Cognitively Guided Instruction in Action: Elicit, Interpret, and Advance Student Thinking

Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) begins with a simple but powerful belief: students’ thinking matters, and instruction should be designed to...

The Reading Crisis — And What We Can Actually Do About It

New federal data should give every parent and teacher pause this summer. According to the National Center for Education Statistics' latest Nation's...

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