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Tim Hamilton

Tim Hamilton serves as a senior manager of onboarding and training with Great Minds, the developer of Eureka Math, a cohesive Grades PK–12 math curriculum. He provides professional development nationwide to schools and districts that are implementing this curriculum. Previously, he taught Grades 6–12 mathematics and served as an instructional coach with Baltimore City Public Schools.

Tim Hamilton

Kindergarten Assessment Made Easier

Assessing kindergartners in math can be a challenge. For one thing, young learners may struggle to express their thinking in writing. With...

What Is The Relationship Between Learning And Knowledge?

Knowledge acquisition begins in infancy and continues throughout a person’s life. Knowledge is everywhere, just waiting to be acquired. Knowledge...

Supporting Equitable English Language Arts Instruction Through Knowledge-Building Text Sets

Every child deserves access to rigorous grade-level content. Too often, early literacy instruction focuses only on word recognition and not on...

The Science of Reading: What is prior knowledge and why is it important?

Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope famously shows us that reading is one of the most complex things that we do on a routine basis. Skilled reading...

How to Leverage Distance Learning Tools for In-Person Instruction

You may think of Eureka Math in Sync™ as a resource only for remote instruction, but it’s much more than that! Eureka Math in Sync can be just as...

Four Ways Parents Can Help Address Learning Gaps

At the start of the 2021–2022 school year, Nell McAnelly, chair of the board of directors for the Great Minds® Public Benefit Corporation, shared...

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